Barbara Kowalik Author & Editor

Barbara Kowalik is Professor of English literature at the University of Warsaw. For many years she taught at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin. She was a visiting scholar at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford and taught Polish literature at American universities. She is a member of The European Society for the Study of English and the International Association of the University Professors of English, and is currently the editor of Acta Philologica at the University of Warsaw. She has authored a book on the symbolism of space in the Pearl manuscript (1997), a book on woman’s pastoral in Barbara Pym’s fiction (2002), and numerous articles and reviews.