Marcin Tereszewski is an assistant professor in the Department of English Literature and Comparative Studies, where he teaches courses in English literature and British culture. He obtained his PhD in 2010 with a dissertation examining the role of silence and emptiness in the works of Samuel Beckett, written under the supervision of Professor Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak.

His current research interests include psychogeography and dystopian literature, with a particular focus on the work of J.G. Ballard.

Since September 2024, he has served as Deputy Director for External Relations at the Institute of English Studies. He is also a board member of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE).

Books:

The Aesthetics of Failure: Inexpressibility in Samuel Beckett’s Fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Edited volumes:

Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands, red. Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Dominika Ferens, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Marcin Tereszewski. New York: Routledge, 2024.

Production of Emotions: Perspectives and Functions, red. Teresa Bruś and Marcin Tereszewski. Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.

Articles in journals:

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2024. “’A random assembly of geometric forms’: Thing Theory in J.G. Ballard’s and Ray Bradbury’s short stories”. Orbis Litterarum 79(1): 1-9.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2021. “The Poet of Decay and Psychic Entropy: The Intersection of Surrealism and Science in J. G. Ballard’s Fiction” Academic Journal of Modern Philology.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2020. “Dystopian Space in E.M. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’” w: Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw. Rocznik Naukowy Lingwistycznej Szkoły Wyższej w Warszawie 10: 225-281.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2020. “Piecing Together J. G. Ballard’s “The Atrocity Exhibition”. Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature 44 (2): 75-82

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2020. “Illusion and Compensation: Heterotopic Aspects of Gated Communities in J. G. Ballard’s Fiction”. Anglica Wratislaviensia LVIII. 

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2019. “Space and Identity in J. G. Ballard’s Urban Disaster Fiction”. Polish Journal of English Studies 5(1): 7-17. 

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2019. “The Confines of Subjectivity: Spaces of Resistance in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four”. Nordic Journal of English Studies 18(1): 54-71.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2019. “Liminal Space in J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island”. Text Matters 9: 345-355.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2017.“Reconciling Your Self: Individuation and Ontological Ambiguity in J.G. Ballard’s The Empire of the Sun and The Drowned World” Brno Studies in English 43(2).

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2015. “The Neutral Voice of the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot”. Polish Journal of English Studies 1: 45-56.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2014. “In-Between Wor(l)ds: Spectrality in Banville’s Eclipse and Beckett’s Fiction.” In Anglica Wratislaviensia LII.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2011. “The Ethics of Alterity in Samuel Beckett’s How It Is.” Anglica Wratislaviensia XLIX.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2008. “Towards the Inexpressible Nothing in Beckett’s Texts for Nothing”. Anglica Wratislaviensia XLVI.

Tereszewski, Marcin. 2003. “The Apophatic Speech in Beckett and Derrida” Anglica Wratislaviensnia XLI.

Chapters in edited volumes:

Tereszewski, Marcin. “The ethical call from the hinterlands: Conceptualizing waste in J. G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Concrete Island”. Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands, eds. E. Kębłowska-Ławniczak, D. Ferens, K. Nowak-McNeice, M. Tereszewski. New York: Routledge: 2024: 111-123.

Tereszewski, Marcin. “The Architectural Fragment: Ruins and Totality in J. G. Ballard’s Fiction”. The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction, eds. Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Drąg. Vernon Press, 2019.

Tereszewski, Marcin. “Transgression and Death: New Wave Science Fiction’s Debt to the Gothic Tradition”. Disease, Death, Decay, eds. Ryszard W. Wolny and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska) Uniwersytet Opolski, 2018.

Tereszewski, Marcin. “Modern Wastelands: The Psychogeographical Dystopia of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise”. More After More: Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, eds. Ksenia Olkusz, Michał Kłosiński, Krzysztof M. Maj, Facta Ficta Research Centre, Kraków, 2016: 280- 292.

Tereszewski, Marcin. “The Death of Affect: Embracing Capitalist Alienation in J.G. Ballard’s Fiction.” In Production of Emotions: Perspectives and Functions, eds. Teresa Bruś and Marcin Tereszewski. Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.

Tereszewski, Marcin. “Voice without a Source: The Question of Inexpressibility and Origin in Samuel Beckett’s Work.” PASE. Wrocław, 2008.

Tereszewski, Marcin. “Limits of Writing: Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett.” In Literature and/in Culture, eds. Sławomir Wącior and Grzegorz Maziarczyk. Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, 2008.

Tereszewski, Marcin. “The Eye of the Other: Visuality in Ill Seen Ill Said.” In Drama of the Mind, eds. Krystyna Stamirowska and Katarzyna Bazarnik. Jagiellonian University Press, 2006.