Anna Czarnowus

Professore associato


email: anna.czarnowus@us.edu.pl




Anna Czarnowus is Associate Professor at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She

specializes in Middle English literature and medievalisms. She published Inscription on the Body:

Monstrous Children in Middle English Literature (University of Silesia, 2009) and Fantasies of the

Other’s Body in Middle English Oriental Romance (Peter Lang, 2013). She co-edited (with

Margaret Jane Toswell) Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood

(D.S. Brewer, 2020) and (with Carolyne Larrington) Memory and Medievalism in George R.R.

Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories (Bloomsbury, 2022). She is

currently co-editing (with Janet M. Wilson) New Zealand Medievalism: Reframing the Medieval

(forthcoming from Routledge) and (with Laurel Ryan) Medievalism in Slavic Popular Culture

(forthcoming from Arc Humanities Press). She has published 60 articles and book chapters. She has

supervised a PhD thesis on the anthropocentric science fiction of H.G. Wells. She has given guest

lectures in the UK, Germany, and Spain. Recently she has been working in research teams that

work on medievalism, medieval studies, and Tolkien.

 

MAIN PUBLICATIONS:

MONOGRAPHS:

 

Inscription on the Body: Monstrous Children in Middle English Literature (Katowice:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2009).

 

Fantasies of the Other’s Body in Middle English Oriental Romance (Frankfurt am Main: Peter

Lang, 2013).

 

BOOKS EDITED:

 

Traverser les frontières. Mélanges offerts au Professeur Krzysztof Jarosz/Crossing Borders.

Studies in Honour of Professor Krzysztof Jarosz. Ed. Anna Czarnowus et Joanna Warmuzińska-

Rogóż. Katowice : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2014.

 

Marvels of Reading: Essays in Honour of Professor Andrzej Wicher. Ed. Rafał Borysławski,

Anna Czarnowus, and Łukasz Neubauer. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego,

2015.

 

Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood. Ed. M.J. Toswell

and Anna Czarnowus. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020.

 

Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our

Memories. Ed. Anna Czarnowus and Carolyne Larrington. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

 

RECENT ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

 

1.  “John Richardson’s Wacousta, or the Transfer of Medievalist Romance” in Medievalism in

English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood, ed. M.J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus.

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020. 52-65.

 

2. (with M.J. Toswell) “Introduction: English Canadian Medievalism” in Medievalism in English

Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood, ed. M.J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus.

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020. 1-16.

 

3. “‘Harsh, violent, and muddy: Ale, Wine, and Liquor in Adam Thorpe’s Hodd” in Beer and Brewing

in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism, ed. Rosemary O’Neill, Noelle Phillips, and

John A. Geck. Cham: Springer, 2022. 363-388.

4. “Echoes of Medieval and Pre-Modern Animal Trials in the Interlude Declamatio sub forma iudicii

(1735), Romanica Silesiana 20 (2021), Reception,

https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/issue/view/1201

 

5. John Lydgate’s Guy of Warwick and Fifteenth-Century Emotions, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 56

(2021), 209-233.

6. “Medievalism of Emotions in King Lear, Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation

and Performance 23 (38)/ 2021. 187-202.

 

7. (with Carolyne Larrington) “Introduction” in Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and

Game of Thrones, ed. Anna Czarnowus and Carolyne Larrington. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 1-8.

 

8. “The Medievalist Emotional Economy in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire” in Memory

and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories,

ed. Anna Czarnowus and Carolyne Larrington. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 137-146.

9. “Arthurian Literature in Central and Eastern Europe” in The Cambridge History of Arthurian

Literature and Culture, ed. Andrew Lynch and Raluca Radulescu (CUP, forthcoming).

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