Dr Paulina Pająk is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies (Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures), University of Wrocław (ORCID: 0000-0001-6911-1284). She is a principal investigator on the research project Bloomsburians in Warsaw: Modernist publishing networks and the Bloomsbury Group in interwar Poland (SONATA no. 2023/51/D/HS2/02041), funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2024–2027).
In 2021, Paulina Pająk received her doctoral degree in literary studies (UWr). She has worked on several research project (UWr, Ministry of Science and Higher Education). As an editor and author, she participated in a transatlantic project, along with researchers from the US and Canada – she co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature.Her publications focus on modernist literature and legacies, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, interwar print culture and publishing networks. She has presented her research at international conferences, organized by (among others) Lamar University, Leeds Trinity University, Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Reading, University of Kent, University of Göttingen, University of Oxford, and University of St Andrews. She is a member of the International Virginia Woolf Society.
Selected publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6911-1284
Dubino, J., Pająk, P., Hollis, C. W., Lypka, C., & Neverow, V. (Eds.). (2025, 2nd ed.). The Edinburgh companion to Virginia Woolf and contemporary global literature. Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-virginia-woolf-and-contemporary-global-literature.html
Pająk, P. (2024). The life behind the books: Reconstructing the Przeworskis’ biographies. Autobiografia. Literatura. Kultura. Media, 22(1), 85–98. https://doi.org/10.18276/au.2024.1.22-07
Pająk, P. (2024). The transfer of the New Biography: Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey in interwar Poland, Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Anglica Wratislaviensia, 62(2), 13–32. https://doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.62.2.2
Pająk, P. (2024). Neither peace nor haven: Sussex as Virginia Woolf’s imagined hinterland. In E. Kębłowska-Ławniczak, D. Ferens, K. Nowak-McNeice, M. Tereszewski (Eds.), Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands (pp. 174–186). Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032617732
Pająk, P., Cybulska K. (2023). Recepcja twórczości Virginii Woolf w międzywojennej prasie w Polsce. Rocznik Historii Prasy Polskiej, 26(4), 85–102. https://doi.org/10.24425/rhpp.2023.148239
Pająk, P. (2023). Mediated vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s characters in Corona fictions. In Y. Völkl, J. Obermayr, & E. Hobisch (Eds.), Pandemic protagonists: Viral (re)actions in pandemic and Corona fiction (pp. 99–115). transcript. www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6616-8/pandemic-protagonists/
Pająk, P. (2022). 1933: The year of lesbian modernism in Poland? Women’s History Review, 31(1), 28–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2021.1954333
Dubino, J., Pająk, P., Hollis, C. W., Lypka, C., & Neverow, V. (Eds.). (2021). The Edinburgh companion to Virginia Woolf and contemporary global literature. Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-virginia-woolf-and-contemporary-global-literature.html
Pająk, P. (2021). Trans-Dialogues: Exploring Virginia Woolf’s feminist legacy to contemporary Polish literature. In J. Dubino, P. Pająk, C. W. Hollis, C. Lypka, & V. Neverow (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to Virginia Woolf and contemporary global literature (pp. 332–353). Edinburgh University Press.
Pająk, P., Dubino, J., & Hollis, C. W. (2021). Planetary Woolf. In J. Dubino, P. Pająk, C. W. Hollis, C. Lypka, & V. Neverow (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to Virginia Woolf and contemporary global literature (pp. 1–21). Edinburgh University Press.
Pająk, P. (2019). Naszą filologiczną ojczyzną jest ziemia… Jak “amerykańska” komparatystyka wyobraża sobie obywatelstwo? Politeja, 60, 255–68. https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.16.2019.60.17
Pająk, P. (2018). Echo Texts: Woolf, Krzywicka, and The Well of Loneliness. Woolf Studies Annual, 24, 11–34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26475572
Pająk, P. (2018). Echo’s voices: Virginia Woolf, Irena Krzywicka and The well of loneliness. In N. Wilson, & C. Battershill (Eds.), Virginia Woolf and the world of books (pp. 31–38). Clemson University Press. (Reprinted in 2020 by Liverpool University Press Scholarship Online. https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781942954569.001.0001)
Pająk, P. (2018). Housed memories: Spatial and temporal portraits in Virginia Woolf’s The voyage out. Anglica Wratislaviensia, 56, 109–18. https://doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.56.8
Pająk, P. (2017). Woolf’s imaginarium: Virginia Woolf’s legacy to contemporary Polish culture. In J. de Gay, T. Breckin, & A. Reus (Eds.), Virginia Woolf and heritage (pp. 236–243). Clemson University Press. (Reprinted in 2018 by Liverpool University Press Scholarship Online. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781942954422.003.0034)
Pająk, P. (2017). Moments of liberty. (Self-)censorship games in the essays of Virginia Woolf. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 45(7), 283–301.
