Education 

2015 Loyola University - Chicago, BA Philosophy and French (cum laude)

2014  Institut d’études politiques d’Aix-en-Provence Courses - Licence Level 

2017 University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA French 

2024 Jagiellonian University, PhD Comparative Literature 

Employment

2015-2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant in French, University of Wisconsin, Madison 

2018-2020 Lecturer in English and French, The European Institute of Education, Cracow 

2019-2021 Lecturer in English and French, College of Economics and Computer Science, Cracow 

2020-2024   IBDP Teacher in English Language and Literature, French, and Latin, The College of Europe International High School, Cracow 

2021-2024 Lecturer in English Language and Literature, Jagiellonian University Language Center 

2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University  

Current Assistant Professor, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University 

Publications (Articles) 

2026. "Neopikareska kalifornijska: święty huncwot w Gronach gniewu." Studia Komparatystyczne. (forthcoming). 

2026. “Retributive Violence Revisited: The One-Man Crowd of The Vigilante.” Steinbeck Review. (forthcoming). 

2026. "War Lust and Literature: Between Polemological and Psychoanalytic Criticism." Orbis Litterarum. 81 (1): 1-13. 

2025. "Of Sympathy and Love: Mimesis, Narrative, and Togetherness in 'Tortilla Flat." Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. 20 (4): 267-279. 

2025. “Models: Mimesis, Narrative, and Peer Co-operation in the Foreign Language Classroom.” Społeczeństwo. Edukacja. Język. 21: 69-80. 

2024. “Mimetic Set and Match: Around Shaffer’s Sleuth.” Film Studies 47: 11-24. 

2024 “Multiliteracies: Teaching with Short Stories.” Glottodidactic Journal 13: 9-25. 

2024. “The Apotheosis of a Silesian Miner: Scapegoating in The Beads of One Rosary.” Cultural and Humanities Studies 4 (3): 27-46.

2023. “Short Stories in the Classroom: Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’” Glottodidactic Journal 12: 9-21. 

Conference Presentations:

2026. "Ten Days: John Steinbeck in Poland," Tenth World Congress on Polish Studies, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin. 

2025. "Pikareska amerykańska: święci huncwoci Steinbecka," Picaro redivivus? W świeci łazików, włóczęgów, łotryzków i sowizdrzałów, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. 

2025. "Mimetic Friendships: Steinbeck’s Paisanos,” International Association for Robin Hood Studies Conference, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. 

2025. “Literature and Multiliteracies: Redesigning Through Short Stories,” 36th International Conference on Second Language Acquisition, University of Silesia, Katowice. 

2024. “Like-Me, Like-You: Positive Mimesis, AI, and FL Pedagogy,” Language in the Context of Artificial Intelligence, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas. 

2023. “Multiliteracies: Teaching with Short Stories,” Cracow Language Teaching Staff Training Week, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. 

2023. “Multiliteracies: Grammar, Context, and Meaning-Making,” University of Applied Sciences, Tarnów. 

2021. “An Introduction to the Multiliteracies Framework in TEFL,” Plenary Conference for Teachers of English, College of Europe High School, Cracow. 

2019. “De Gaulle en Pologne: commentaire sur la guerre soviéto-polonaise 1919-1920,” The Bolshevik Danger in Europe 1919, University of Bucharest, Bucharest.

2017. “The Importance of Being Idiomatic,” World Language Day Conference, Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison.  

2017. "Neighbors: Scapegoating at the Peripheries of the Holocaust,'" Sixth World Congress on Polish Studies, Polska Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cracow.

2016. « L'anti-héroïsme: la rivalité mimétique dans Les Bonnes et Haute Surveillance de Jean Genet, » Midwest Modern Languages Association René Girard Panel, Saint Louis. 

2016. “The Black Poles of Haiti: A Legacy of Resolute Ethnic Pride," Haiti: Beyond Commemorations and Boundaries, University of Chicago, Chicago.  

Invited Talks:

2026. Keynote address "Steinbeck the Subversive," English Student Society Conference, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. 

Translations:

2026. "Steinbeck Drinks Coffee" (Kazimierz Wierzyński in Moja Prywatna Ameryka) 

Professional Memberships: 

Midwest Modern Language Association 

American Comparative Literature Association 

International Society of Steinbeck Scholars

Colloquium on Violence and Religion 

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences

Languages

English - Native 

Polish-Native 

French-Near-Native

German-Reading Knowledge 

Ancient Greek-Advanced Reading Knowledge

Latin-Advanced Reading Knowledge

Courses Taught 

2015-2017

French 101, 102, 201.

2017   

Latin Intensive Summer Course 101-102. 

2018-2020  

B2-C2 EFL Courses-English for Professional Translators; Advanced English Grammar and Composition; CAE and IELTS preparatory courses; English for Engineering and Business; EFL Teacher Training; Leaving Certificate Preparation

2019-2021

C1-C2 Courses-English for Students of Information Technology; EAP for Students of Business Management and Accounting; B1-B2 Professional French; Advanced Research Writing 

2020-2024

International Baccalaureate Diploma English B HL, English A Literature HL and SL, French Language and Literature HL, Latin. 

2021-2024

EAP C1-C2 Courses-English for Journalism and Information Management (BA/MA-level). 

2024 -      

Violence and Literature; Violence, Literature, and Culture; The Outsiders: Topics in American Literature and Language; Voices from the Past: Latin and Greek in Current English; Pedagogy for Teachers in Post-Secondary Education; Advanced English Speaking, Reading, and Writing Courses (BA/MA-level).