Katarzyna Burzyńska

The volume is titled “Monstrous Bodies: Deviance, Transformation, and Belonging in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction.” We would be very grateful if you could circulate this call among interested colleagues and networks, and we warmly invite you to consider submitting an abstract for the volume.

CFP Announcement! I am honoured and delighted to co-edit a special volume of Anglistica AION. An Interdisciplinary Journal together with my wonderful colleagues and friends, Luca Barratta and Michela Compagnoni.

Yes, come and meet Agnes Shakespeare and learn more about the turbulent history of Anne Hathaway's reception in popular and academic discourse. #hamnet #shakespeare #earlymodern #earlymodernstudies

📚 Culture Vultures Reading Group invites you to a presentation & discussion of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell.
🗓 14.01.2026, 11:30–13:00
📍 Collegium Heliodori, room 214
I will talk about Anne Hathaway/Agnes Shakespeare. All welcome!

A woman holding a bottle of non-alcoholic beer with the name Coriolanus at the backdrop of a poster with the name of Caius Marcius.

Went to the theatre to see the newest "Coriolanus"; the posters, the gadgets and all capture the gimmicky nature of the performance #theatre #shakespeare

Thank you! 🙏💚

My contribution to this volume is titled “A terrible childbed has thou had, my dear”: Pregnant Embodiment and Caregiving Networks in Pericles. Every time I say that my “pregnancy project” is finally finished new questions arise and new material needs attention #publication #shakespeare #earlymodern

I'm deeply honoured and extremely happy to announce the release of the following publication “Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World” edited by Darryl Chalk and Rebecca Totaro. I have eternal gratitude to the best editors. #publication #shakespeare #earlymodern

A little piece of paper saying "Be patient; good news is on its way".

Found this charm and I'm insisting on it being a sign from the Universe 😀 #mindfulness

Slices of bread with hummus and parsley on a green plate.

Pumpkin soup in a bowl, sandwiches in the background.

Back to vegan food photos because vegan food is so photogenic 😀 it's the colours and the variety #vegan #plantbased #breakfast

Yes! It took me a while to figure this out but once I did I was like "oh! Wow!" 😀

Judith Butler's book "Who's afraid of gender?" placed on a bed.

#Reading #Butler and like always I'm blown away by the depth of research and nuance of arguments. Yet, given what is happening around, this becomes an increasingly hard read. But you've got to love the cover 😘

Culture Vultures is a reading group that covers a wide range of topics and hosts diverse speakers. Our strength lies in this diversity of interests. I’ll be posting updates about our future meetings — stay tuned!

Today, my dear colleagues and I had the pleasure of representing our department at the Reading Groups Fair at the AMU Faculty of English. We really enjoyed networking with other teachers and students — as the photos clearly show! #teaching #teacherslife #shakespeare #academic

Loads of garbage of plastic flowers in front of the wall of a graveyard.

Poland 2025 All Saints' Day in one photo. No comment.

A woman in a burgundy suit feeding bulls grass.

Majestic and yet absolutely friendly creatures. We were equally curious of each other. They don't deserve the fate humans thrust upon them. #vegan #loveallanimals #animalover

Exactly! Thank you for saying this.

Yellow flowers in the foreground, in the background fields.

Reading wonderful papers for an eco-Shakespeare symposium and feeling wistful about the future. This is the paradox of activist-oriented research; you need to find space for the sadness associated with irrevocable loss and joy for the people who work with you on nourishing hope #ecology #research

A woman in burgundy trousers and jacket standing in front of the posters advertising Queerfest in the theatre lobby.

Now that the festival is over I look forward to spending some evenings at home with a mug of tea and stacks of books. But it was wonderful! Poznań the capital city of Polish queerness rules! #queer #theatre #festival

Two posters from Queerfest theatre festival, one theatre programme for "Susan Sontag" performance.

#Queerfest Day 2! A very powerful performance on Susan Sontag's life and works. I learnt a great deal and it was such a treat. #theatre #queer

A woman in a burgundy jacket holding a book. Behind her a blond man is smiling. In the background there's an oil painting.

Queerfest day 1. This really happend 😀 #theatre #queer

Today #Queerfest begins, a queer theatre festival in the heart of Poznań. #queer #theatre #excited

Congratulations! Fabulous poster and I love the outfit! 💚

Post-covid run. I did go for a jog and I'm feeling stronger and stronger every day. There's fast recovery for you. I believe it's my diet that did that for me. #covid #fitness #vegan

Also reading #Hamnet in preparation for the film's premiere. What a spellbinding novel! Though having seen the trailer I can't unsee Paul Mescal as Shakespeare and Jesse Buckley as Agnes #Shakespeare not complaining!

Is literature an instrument of ideology or a space of its contestation? Both. It depends what literature, where, when, how? And what is literature anyway? Mmm... It shapes to be a wonderful course. I'm having so much fun preparing lectures. #teaching #literature #shakesperean #academy

Getting better and reading materials for an introduction to theory of literature course. Gosh! So excited about it! It's been so long since I asked myself - What is literature? What is theory? #teaching #literature #covid

I got out of bed today and managed to do some stuff around the flat, which I consider a great success given that yesterday I could barely walk #covid #sick #fall

Thank you 🙏 this is my second COVID but this one is somehow worse... But my plan is to sleep through the worst of it ☺️

I was also wondering about this one 🤦 Maybe cats are too independent? Bad role models?