{"id":20373,"date":"2023-02-07T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/?page_id=20373"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:43:41","slug":"dr-hab-anna-budziak-prof-uwr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/en\/staff\/dr-hab-anna-budziak-prof-uwr\/","title":{"rendered":"prof. dr hab. Anna Budziak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-container ugb-container ugb-8dda971 ugb-container--v2 ugb-container--design-plain ugb-main-block\"><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-container__wrapper ugb-8dda971-wrapper\"><div class=\"ugb-container__side\"><div class=\"ugb-container__content-wrapper ugb-8dda971-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns bs-news-page is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column bs-kontakt-photo is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/budziakanna.png\" alt=\"AB\" class=\"wp-image-21429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/budziakanna.png 510w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/budziakanna-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/budziakanna-17x24.png 17w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/budziakanna-25x36.png 25w, https:\/\/ifa.uwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/04\/budziakanna-33x48.png 33w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column bs-contact-right-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-bonasoft-modular-breadcrumbs-block\"><div class=\"bs_add_breadcrumb_trail\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-css-opacity has-black-background-color has-background is-style-wide bs-border-kontakt\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading bs-naglowek-podstrony\" id=\"prof-dr-hab-anna-michonska-stadnik\"><strong>prof. <strong>dr hab. Anna Budziak<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Department<\/td>\n<td>Department of English and Comparative Linguistics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>email<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mailto:anna.budziak@uwr.edu.pl\">anna.budziak@uwr.edu.pl<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-container ugb-container bs-news-page-under ugb-f8694ce ugb-container--v2 ugb-container--design-plain ugb-main-block\"><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-container__wrapper ugb-f8694ce-wrapper\"><div class=\"ugb-container__side\"><div class=\"ugb-container__content-wrapper ugb-f8694ce-content-wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Research interests and teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My interests are in the fields of late Victorian literature and culture, British decadent aestheticism, especially Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, and modernism, especially T. S. Eliot. I am interested in how literary works retain their relevance beyond their purely aesthetic value and in how they engage with philosophical, theological, and political debates, the interest reflected, for instance, in the question of how Eliot viewed populism<em>.&nbsp;<\/em>My research interests are also reflected in the courses I teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including those on literature and the philosophy of friendship, on literature and the visual arts, on parody, and modern literary theories. I co-edited a collection of philosophical-literary essays&nbsp;<em>Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics<\/em>&nbsp;(CSP, 2017) and authored three monographs. My book&nbsp;<em>Text, Body and Indeterminacy: Doppelg\u00e4nger Selves in Pater and Wilde<\/em>&nbsp;(CSP,&nbsp; 2008) was shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Book Award in 2010 and is listed amidst \u201eMajor Books on Pater in English\u201d by Walter Pater Society&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/walterpater.com\/bibliography\/monographs\/\">https:\/\/walterpater.com\/bibliography\/monographs\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I graduated from the University of Wroclaw, where I also received an M.A. and a doctoral degree in Literature Studies, and where I was awarded a habilitation. I participated in literature-teaching courses\u2014\u201eThe Penn-Leuven Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies\u201d (KU Leuven, Belgia) and \u201cTeaching Literature Overseas\u201d (Corpus Christi, Oxford)\u2014as well as in teaching exchange at the Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t (Bochum, Germany). I also benefited from the British Council funding as a visiting researcher at the University of Warwick (UK) and as a visiting scholar at the University of Ulster. At my home university, I was a research advisor for the Doctoral Student Group (Literary Intersections, 2012-14), head of the 19-20th Century English Literature Centre (2009-17), and acting head of the Department of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the Institute of English Studies (02.2017-09. 2018). I received, on two occasions, the Chancellor\u2019s Award. I am Fellow of the English Association, elected 2005, currently participating in the work of the Fellowship Committee. In 2023, I was selected for Liverpool University Press\u2019&nbsp;2023 Awards for Outstanding Journal Reviewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monographs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>T. S. Eliot\u2019s Ariel Poems: Making Sense of the Times<\/em>, New York and London: Routledge, 2022.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/T-S-Eliots-Ariel-Poems-Making-Sense-of-the-Times\/Budziak\/p\/book\/9780367645311\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/T-S-Eliots-Ariel-Poems-Making-Sense-of-the-Times\/Budziak\/p\/book\/9780367645311<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Text, Body and Indeterminacy: Doppelg\u00e4nger Selves in Pater and Wilde.<\/em>&nbsp;Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgescholars.com\/product\/978-1-84718-507-5\/\">https:\/\/cambridgescholars.com\/product\/978-1-84718-507-5\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Czas i historia u T. S. Eliota. Konteksty filozoficzne<\/em>. [Time and history in T. S. Eliot]. Wroc\u0142aw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroc\u0142awskiego, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An edited monograph<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics: Studies in Agency and Embodiment.<\/em>&nbsp;Eds. Anna Budziak, Katarzyna Lisowska i Jaros\u0142aw Wo\u017aniak. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cT.S. Eliot and Populism.\u201d Forum: The Eliot We Need.&nbsp;<em>The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual<\/em>&nbsp;7. 1 (2025): 125-137. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3828\/tsesa.2025.vol7.08\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3828\/tsesa.2025.vol7.08<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eT. S. Eliot\u2019s Utopian Europe and the&nbsp;Ideal&nbsp;of&nbsp;Empire.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies<\/em>.\u201d Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRestoring the Self through Writing.\u201dSymposium dedicated to Richard Shusterman\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Philosophy and the Art of Writing<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Meta:&nbsp;Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy<\/em>&nbsp;16.1 (2024): 284-88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWalter Pater\u2019s \u2018A Prince of Court Painters\u2019: A Covert Autobiography and Museum Trips\u201d,&nbsp;<em>Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate<\/em>&nbsp;(October 2022).&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connotations.de\/2022\/10\/01\/october-2022-walter-paters-a-prince-of-court-painters-a-covert-autobiography-and-museum-trips\/\">https:\/\/www.connotations.de\/2022\/10\/01\/october-2022-walter-paters-a-prince-of-court-painters-a-covert-autobiography-and-museum-trips\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn the Parenthesis in T. S. Eliot\u2019s The Cultivation of Christmas Trees.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Essays in Criticism<\/em>&nbsp;(Oxford Journals) vol. 71, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 46- 65.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/escrit\/cgaa029\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/escrit\/cgaa029<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cT.S. Eliot\u2019s Anti-Elitist View of Education.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Academic Journal of Modern Philology<\/em>, vol. 10 (2020), pp. 56-64.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ajmp.uni.wroc.pl\/upload\/volume-10\/Budziak.pdf\">https:\/\/ajmp.uni.wroc.pl\/upload\/volume-10\/Budziak.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cModernism and Muddle: Religious Implications of T. S. Eliot\u2019s Use of the Term.\u201d&nbsp; Eds. Adrian Paterson and Christine Reynier,&nbsp;<em>Modernist Writers\u2019 Non-fictional Narratives of Modernism<\/em>, special issue of<em>&nbsp;E-rea<\/em>&nbsp;15. 2 (2018).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/erea\">https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/erea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom T. S. Eliot to Oscar Wilde: Aesthetic Borrowings, Ethical Theft, and Redemption.\u201d&nbsp;<em>English: Journal of the English Association<\/em>&nbsp;(Oxford Journals) 65.249 (2016): 140-157.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/english\/efw013\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/english\/efw013<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWyobcowanie rozumu. Posta\u0107 ,szalonego naukowca\u2019 na tle dziewi\u0119tnastowiecznych teorii choroby umys\u0142owej.\u201d&nbsp;[The mad scienetist and the late-nineteenth-century concepts of madness].&nbsp;<em>Ethos Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Paw\u0142a II<\/em>&nbsp; 110 (2015): 185-206. Doi:&nbsp; 10.12887\/28-2015-2-110-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOscar Wilde\u2019s Renaissance References: Neo-Platonism, Hermeticism, and Mannerism.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;53 (2015): 25-34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cParodic and Post-classic: British Decadent Aestheticism Re-approached.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies<\/em>&nbsp;23.1 (2014): 83-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cT. S. Eliot\u2019s \u2018La Figlia Che Piange\u2019 and the Tradition of Decadent Aestheticism.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Brno Studies in English<\/em>&nbsp;40.1 (2014): 27-45. Doi: 10.5817\/BSE2014-2-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrzyja\u017a\u0144 zaprzeczona, przyja\u017a\u0144 niespe\u0142niona. Portret Doriana Graya Oscara Wilde\u2019a i Droga do Indii Edwarda M. Forstera\u201d. [Friendship in Oscar Wilde\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>&nbsp;and E. M. Foster\u2019s A Passage to India]&nbsp;<em>Ethos 3: Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Paw\u0142a II<\/em>&nbsp;(2013): 121-137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLiterature in Walter Pater\u2019s Architectural Analogy.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Brno Studies in English<\/em>&nbsp;39.1 (2013): 183-198. Doi: 10.5817\/bse2013-1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Setting Sun of British Decadence: Material and Formal Aspects of the Term.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;50 (2012): 23-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cO somatycznym uwarunkowaniu stylu i o biologicznej naturze j\u0119zyka. Na przyk\u0142adach dziewi\u0119tnastowiecznej literatury angielskiej.\u201d [On the somatic aspect of style and biological nature of language].&nbsp;<em>Rozprawy Naukowe<\/em>&nbsp;36 (2012): 5-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cT. S. Eliot\u2019s Debt to Oscar Wilde: The Paradox of (Im)personality.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;49 (2011): 19-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf Mirrors and Multiversity, Doppelg\u00e4ngers and Doppelg\u00e4ngerins.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The European English Messenger<\/em>&nbsp;20.2 (2011): 47-53.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/202-47-70.pdf\">https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/202-47-70.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheorizing the Self: From the Narrative to the Bodily.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Subject Matters: Journal of Communications and the Self<\/em>&nbsp;4.2\/ 5.1 (2008): 1-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBetween Metaphysics and Physics: Aristotelian and Postmodernist Perspectives in T. S. Eliot\u2019s Theory of Poetic Expression, the Mind, and the Soul.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;45 (2008): 9-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnty-esencjalizm nietekstowy. O filozofii Richarda Shustermana.\u201d&nbsp;[The non-textual anti-essentialism: On Richard Shusterman\u2019s philosophy].&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Er(r)go: Teoria-Literatura-Kultura&nbsp;<\/em>12 (2007): 9-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOscar Wilde\u2019s Refutation of \u2018Depth\u2019 in The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Reading.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Brno Studies in English<\/em>&nbsp;30 (2004): 135-146.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVagaries of the Rose: Allegory of History in Four Quartets.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;39 (2002): 7-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEliot\u2019s Dreamer and Herbert\u2019s Skeptic: Ethical Implications of the Modernist Personae.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Acta Neophilologica<\/em>&nbsp;3 (2001): 143-153.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSublimity and Estrangement in E. M. Forster\u2019s \u2018The Story of the Siren\u2019<em>.\u201d Lo Straniero: Journal of IMISE<\/em>&nbsp;(2001): 20-23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEzra Pound and T. S. Eliot: Turning Aesthetics into Political Ethics.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;37 (2001): 7-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSelf-Erasure in the Language of Paradox: T. S. Eliot\u2019s Venture Beyond the Confines of Speech.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;36 (2001): 7-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIdeological Vulnerability of Imagery: T. S. Eliot\u2019s Jewish Representations.&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia&nbsp;<\/em>27 (1999): 27-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cManifestations of the Cyclical Time Concept in T. S. Eliot\u2019s Early Poetry.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;21 (1991): 87-97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMagical Attitudes in T. S. Eliot\u2019s Early Poetry.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia<\/em>&nbsp;21 (1991): 71-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapters in print<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Epigraph for T. S. Eliot\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Marina<\/em>: Classical Tradition and the Modern Era.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings<\/em>, ed. Paul Poplawski, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 372-88.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781108782999\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781108782999<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction.&nbsp;<em>Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics: Studies in Agency and Embodiment<\/em>, eds. Anna Budziak, Katarzyna Lisowska, Jaros\u0142aw Wo\u017aniak. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017, pp. 1-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGenius and Madness Mirrored: Rossetti\u2019s and Yeats\u2019 Reception of William Blake.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Crossroads in Literature and Culture<\/em>, eds., J. Fabiszak, E. Urbaniak-Rybicka, B. Wolski.&nbsp; Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 281-192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Idea of Emotion in T. S. Eliot and in Richard Shusterman.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Shusterman\u2019s Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics<\/em>, eds. Dorota Koczanowicz i Wojciech Ma\u0142ecki. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012, pp. 33-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Contradictory Fl\u00e2neur: Lost in the City and Found in the Text.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Alternate Life-Worlds in Literary Fiction<\/em>, eds. Ewa K\u0119b\u0142owska -\u0141awniczak, Zdzis\u0142aw W\u0105sik, Teresa Bru\u015b. Wroc\u0142aw: Wydawnictwo Wy\u017cszej Szko\u0142y Filologicznej we Wroc\u0142awiu, 2011, pp. 33-43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWalter Pater and T. S. Eliot: The Case of Aestheticizing Ethics.\u201d&nbsp;<em>PASE Studies in Literature and Culture<\/em>, eds. Magdalena Cie\u015blak and Agnieszka Rasmus. \u0141\u00f3d\u017a: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u0141\u00f3dzkiego, 2008, pp. 77\u201385.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA Game of Equivocations: Richard Shusterman\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Man in Gold: Paths between Art and Life. A Philosophical Tale<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Anglica Wratislaviensia&nbsp;<\/em>60 (2022): 285-294.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eUkryty, jawny, zdystansowany: Richarda Shustermana&nbsp;<em>The Adventures of the Man in Gold: Paths Between Art and Life. A Philosophical Tale<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Er(r)go. Teoria \u2013 Literatura \u2013 Kultura<\/em>&nbsp;vol. 41, no. 2 (2020): 203-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.us.edu.pl\/index.php\/ERRGO\/article\/view\/7417\">https:\/\/www.journals.us.edu.pl\/index.php\/ERRGO\/article\/view\/7417<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConversing with the Ancients.\u201d&nbsp;Review of&nbsp;<em>Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity<\/em>, eds. Kathleen Riley, Alastair J.L. Blanshard, Iarla Manny, OUP.&nbsp;<em>Eos: Commentarii Societatis Philologiae Polonorum<\/em>&nbsp;105 (2018):136-144.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ptf.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/136_2018_eos_fasc.I_EOS-2018-1d.pdf\">http:\/\/ptf.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/136_2018_eos_fasc.I_EOS-2018-1d.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cW stron\u0119 cielesno\u015bci. Estetyka Richarda Shustermana.\u201d [On Richard Shusterman\u2019s somaesthetics]. Review of Richard Shusterman\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Praktyka filozofii, filozofia praktyki<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Pragmatyzm a \u017cycie filozoficzne<\/em>. Trans. A. Mitek, Krak\u00f3w 2005.&nbsp;<em>Teksty Drugie<\/em>&nbsp;3 (2006): 71-75.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/rcin.org.pl\/Content\/51626\/WA248_67881_P-I-2524_budziak-w-strone.pdf\">http:\/\/rcin.org.pl\/Content\/51626\/WA248_67881_P-I-2524_budziak-w-strone.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prof. dr hab. Anna Budziak Department Department of English and Comparative Linguistics email anna.budziak@uwr.edu.pl Research interests and teaching My interests are in the fields of late Victorian literature and culture, British decadent aestheticism, especially Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, and modernism, especially T. S. Eliot. 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Anna Budziak Department Department of English and Comparative Linguistics email anna.budziak@uwr.edu.pl Research interests and teaching My interests are in the fields of late Victorian literature and culture, British decadent aestheticism, especially Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, and modernism, especially T. S. Eliot. 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