I was born in 1981 in Warsaw. I got my MA in Classics in 2006, at the Universit of Warsawy; BA in Polish Philology in 2009; University; PhD in Classics 2012, all of them at the University of Warsaw. I wrote my doctoral dissertation titled Phlegon’s Monstrous World. The Role of Monster in Phlegon of Tralles’ ‘Mirabilia’ and in the Culture of his Times under the supervision of Professor Wlodzimierz Olszaniec (University of Warsaw) and Professor Emeritus William Hansen (Indiana University of Bloomington). I conducted my doctoral studies also at the University of Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, USA. In 2013-2017 I worked as Assistant Professor in the Institute of Classical Philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice. From October 2017 to December 2018 I was employed in the “Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity” Research Project (ERC Advanced Grant) under the supervision of Professor Robert Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw) and Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins (University of Oxford). I am currently conducting a research project on the Epiphanies of the Saints in Late-Antique Greek Literature (Sonata grant, funded by National Science Centre in Poland). I was granted several scholarships, including Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'antiquité classique in Vandoeuvres, Switzerland (March and September 2017) and Lanckoronski Foundation Research Scholarship in London (2010 and 2017). Since 2017 I have been a member of the International Plutarch Society.
Research Interest
Hellenistic and imperial paradoxography (collections of mirabilia); ancient Greek and Roman novel; second sophistic; hagiography and the cult of saints in late antiquity; ancient folklore; ancient magic; liminality in literature; literary anthropology; narratology
Monographs
The Monstrous World. Corporeal Discourses in Phlegon of Tralles’ Mirabilia, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Mein 2016, pp. 189.
Co-Edited Works
- Wzory kultury antycznej. Reguły zachowania starożytnych Greków i Rzymian. Red. J. Doroszewska, M. Job, T. Sapota. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2018, ss. 178.
- Czarownice. Studia z kulturowej historii fenomenu. A. Anczyk, J. Doroszewska, K. Hess (eds). Katowice 2017.
Articles
- “Windows of Curiosity: Eyes and Vision in Plutarch's De Curiositate’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 59.1, 2019, pp. 158-179.
- “Beyond the Limits of the Human Body: Phlegon of Tralles’ Medical Curiosities”, in: G. Kazantzidis (red.), Medicine and Paradoxography, De Gruyter 2019 (seria Trends in Classics, pp. 117-142).
- “A Liminal Space: Suburbs as a Demonic Domain in Classical Literature”. Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 6.1, 2017, pp. 1-30 (reprint in: Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity. Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces, D. Felton (ed), Routledge 2018).
- “When the Dead love the Living: A Case Study in Phlegon of Tralles’ Mirabilia”, Scripta Classica 12, 2015, pp. 137-149.
- “Between the Monstrous and the Divine. Hermaphrodites in Phlegon of Tralles’ Mirabilia”, Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 53, 2013, pp. 379-392.
- „ … and She became a Man”: Sexual Metamorphosis in Phlegon of Tralles’ Mirabilia”, Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo 3(6), part 2, 2013, pp. 223-241.
Talks (International Conferences)
- 28/11-29/11/2019, Vienna, “Communication with the Underworld” workshop, paper titled.“Saintly In-Betweeners: Liminality, Narratology, and Psychology of the Apparitions of Saints in Late-antique Miracula”.
- 19/09-20/09/2019, Berlin, “Communication with the Underworld: From Ancient Literature to Modern Children’s and Young Adult Literature” workshop, paper titled “Between dream and reality: post–mortem apparitions of saints in late–antique Greek literature”.
- 26/07-28/07/2019 – Bamberg, „Secrets and Secrecy in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and Early Islam" conference, paper titled „Secrets of the Saints: Tricks and Disguises in the Saintly Apparitions of the Late-Antique Miracle Collections”.29/05/2017, Eichstätt, Germany: a guest lecture titled “Suburbs and the Preternatural in Ancient Literature” at The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
- 05/10-05/13/2017, Fribourg, Switzerland: paper titled “The Paradox of the Eye in Plutarch’s De Curiositate” at the 11th International Congress of the International Plutarch Society.
- 06/22-06/25/2016, Dublin, Ireland: paper titled “The Liminal Space: Suburbs as a Demonic Domain in Ancient Imperial Literature” at the 9th Celtic Conference in Classics, in the panel “Landscapes of the Dread”.
- 06/21-06/23/2016, Birmingham, UK: paper titled “A Ritual of the Afterlife or the Afterlife of a Ritual: The Nachleben of the Maschalismos” at the international conference „Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World”.
- 09/03-09/05/2014, Wroclaw, Poland: paper titled “Locating Monsters in Popular Culture: Phlegon of Tralles’ Paradoxographical Works” at the International Conference “Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World II”.