Anna Pilińska is a lecturer in the Department of American Literature and Culture. She defended her MA thesis titled “Lolita between Adaptation and Interpretation: From Nabokov’s Novel and Screenplay to Kubrick’s Film” under the supervision of prof. Mariusz Marszalski; in the same year she also got her MA in Spanish Philology. In 2011, she began doctoral studies.
Anna Pilińska’s academic interests include the work of Vladimir Nabokov, postmodern prose, American and Latin-American short stories, film adaptations of literature, men’s studies, and broadly understood popular culture. She actively participated in several conferences both in Poland and abroad (Prague, Lizbon, Cambridge, Canterbury, Dubrovnik, Biarritz). In 2015, she coorganized an international conference Focus on Fathers at the University of Wroclaw.
Since February 2025, Anna Pilińska is the Dean’s Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment and Anti-Discrimination at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Monographs:
Pilińska, Anna. Lolita Between Adaptation and Interpretation. From Nabokov’s Novel and Screenplay to Kubrick’s Film. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Editing work:
Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse: Focus on Fathers. Ed. Anna Pilińska, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 275 pages, ISBN 978-1-4438-7323-9.
All Equally Real: Femininities and Masculinities Today (Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Praga 2013). Eds. Anna Pilińska and Harmony Siganporia, Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014, 293 pages, ISBN 978-1-84888-312-3.
Articles and chapters in monographs:
Pilińska, Anna. “Bodies We Obsess Upon: Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014)” in: Bodies in Flux: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism, eds. Barbara Braid and Hanan Muzaffar, Brill-Rodopi, 2017.
Pilińska, Anna. “Nurturing or Neutering? Women in Bobbie Ann Mason’s Shiloh & Other Stories” in: All Equally Real: Femininities and Masculinities Today, eds. Anna Pilińska and Harmony Siganporia, Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014, pp. 47-55.
Pilińska, Anna. “Opowiadania Vladimira Nabokova jako literackie baśnie dla dorosłych” in: Baśń we współczesnej kulturze tom 1, Niewyczerpana moc baśni: literatura – sztuka – kultura masowa, ed. Kornelia Ćwiklak, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2014, pp. 287-296.
Pilińska, Anna. “Delightful Deaths: Nabokov and the Joys of Mortality” in: Culture and Rites/Rights of Grief, eds. Zbigniew Białas, Paweł Jędrzejko, Julia Szołtysek; Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 123-134.
Pilińska, Anna. “Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita: A Case of Postmodernized Gothicism” in: Anglica Wratislaviensia LI 2013, pp. 59-70.
Pilińska, Anna. “Dozwolone do lat czternastu: Dolores Haze i jej podobne”, w: Bo to zła kobieta była…: hetery, prostytutki, wariatki – kulturowy obraz kobiety (9-10 grudnia 2011), ed. Jowita Jagla; Łódź: Koło Naukowe Historyków Sztuki. Sekcja Dawna. Katedra Historii Sztuki. Uniwersytet Łódzki, 2013. – (Ars et scientia ; Vol. 1), pp. 309-318.
Pilińska, Anna. “Cela’s men and woman: multiple masculinities vs one femininity in Mazurka for two dead men”, in: Romanica Silesiana 8 (2013), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, pp. 284-291.
