
dr hab. Teresa Bruś, prof. UWr
Department | Department of English and Comparative Linguistics |
teresa.brus@uwr.edu.pl |
TERESA BRUŚ is associate professor at Wrocław University, Poland. Her major fields of research include visual culture, interactions of photography and literature, life writing, poetics of the essay, and modernism. Her graduate seminars in the past few years include “The Poetry of W.H. Auden,” “Autobiographical Spaces in the 20th c,” “Comparative Biography.” She has published extensively on various aspects of life-writing and photography. Her most recent papers are on interiorography, text/image hybridity in life-writing, experiments with images and writing, and the concept of dust in life-writing by Patti Smith. She is the author of Life Writing as Self-Collecting in the 1930s: Cecil Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego 2012) and Face Forms in Life-Writing of the Interwar Years (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). She is the co-organizer of IABA 2023 conference in Warsaw. She is editing a special issue of Anglica Wratislaviensia (62.2/ 2024) dedicated to experience of change in practices of life writing.