Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak is Professor of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland, where she teaches English literature, cultural and adaptation studies.

Her research interests include the exploration of intersections between visuality and literature; urban literary studies, paratexts and adaptation.

She has published over 50 articles and book chapters. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Controversy Over Baroque (1994); The Visual Seen and Unseen: Insights into Tom Stoppard’s Art (2004); From Concept-City to City Experience (2013) and a co-editor of a monograph, The Spectrum of Emotions. From Love to Grief (2016).  She has been a member of several editorial boards and co-edited special issues including  Philologica Wratislaviensia: Acta et Studia, “Alternate Life-Worlds in Literary Fiction” (2011), and the Polish issue of the British  Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance:“Adaptation in Poland: A Paradigm Shift”(2021);  She has been co-editor of the Peter Lang Series, Silesian Studies in Anglophone Cultures and Literatures since 2014 and editor-in-chief of Anglica Wratislaviensia since 2013.

Selected Peer Refereed Articles and Chapters since 2017

“William Oldroid’s Lady M.: An Exercise in Storytelling and Boredom” Anglica Wratislaviensia, Vol. 60 (2022).(accepted for publication).

“Brexit on Stage: Two Verbatim Projects in Progress” Porównania(Comparisons) 3 (30), (2021): 77-92.

“Liminal hypotext-hypertext relations in selected Shakespearean prequels, sequels and gap-fillers”  Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance Vol. 14 (1), (2021): 87-107.

 “Adaptation Studies in Poland” (with Jacek Fabiszak). Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance Vol.14 (1), (2021): 3-9.

“The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories: Towards a Collection of Creative Paratextual Writing or Literature in potential” English Studies in Africa (University of the Witwatersrand)  Vol. 63 (2), (2020):48-64.

“From roots to routes: Women playwrights negotiating their authorship in paratexts” AJMP Vol. 10(2020): 145-156.

“In search of New Epistemology of the Urban in the Writing of Ivan Vladislavić” Brno Studies English Vol. 44 (2), (2018): 105-129.

 “From Peritext to Text: Constructing Authorship in David Hare’s Selected Plays”  Academic Journal of Modern Philology Vol. 7 (2018): 119-129.

“Attempts on the ‘life’ of Johannesburg: Ivan Vladislavić’s Use of the City Portrait Genre.” Anglica Wratislaviensia, Vol. 55 (2017): 47-68.

“Caryl Churchill’s Artificial and Orificial Bodies: Between Subjective and Non-Subjective

Nobody’s Emotion or Affect”. Text Matters: A Journal of Theory, Literature and Culture. Andrzej Wicher and Rachel E. Burke (eds),Vol.7, (2017): 330-352.

“The Politics of Looking Back: Negotiating the Thatcher Legacy” Between Page and Stage:

Scholars and Theatre-makers,  Tomasz Wiśniewski and Martin Blaszk (eds), WUG Book Series Vol. 10. Gdańsk: Gdańsk University Publishing House 2017, pp. 149-170.

“Fear of Multilingualism and the Uses of Nostalgia in Ivan Vladislavić’s The Restless

Supermarket.” Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Literature and Culture Studies, Mydla J., Poks M., Drong L. (eds) Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Cham 2017, pp. 3-15.