CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Aleksandra Tryniecka Position: PhD student Anglo-Irish Institute Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin, Poland Research Fellow Athens Institute for Education and Research Athens, Greece Field of study: Victorian and neo-victorian literature, female characters in neo-victorian texts E-mail: aleksandra.tryniecka@gmail.com Phone: (0048) 509 105 372 EDUCATION 2012-2017 PhD Student Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. (The title of dissertation: "Female Characters in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel: An Intertextual Study") 2012 Master s degree Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univeristy, Lublin, Poland. (The title of dissertation: "Biographical Elements in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Shirley") 2010 Bachelor s degree Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. (The title of dissertation: "The Gothic Convention. A Study in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein") 2007 high school diploma XXI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. św. Stanisława Kostki, Lublin.
TRAINEESHIP: 25.09.2015-25.01.2016 - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 25.09.2014-20.12.2014 - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens CONFERENCES AND THE TITLES OF PRESENTATIONS: Creative Writing and Creative Reading: The Challenges of Cosmopolitanism: International Conference and Workshops, London, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 04.11.2017: my first Workshop on Victorian Etiquette and Manners 2017 International Conference on Gender Studies, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 01.07.2017. The 10 th Annual International Conference on Literature, Athens, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 05-08.06.2017: The Reconfigurations of the Victorian Men in Wilkie Collins Selected Novels International Conference on Poetry Studies, London, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 27.05.2017: W. B. Yeats and Mike Scott: The Atemporal Meeting of Poetry and Music 2017 International Symposium on Gender Studies Crossing Borders: Gender, Sexuality and Culture, London, Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, 04.03.2017: Relationship That Binds: Women and Their Textual Attires in the Victorian and Neo- Victorian Novels The 5 th Annual International Conference on Humanities and Arts in a Global World, Athens, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 03-06.01.2017: The Intriguing Women: Between Wilkie Collins The Law and the Lady (1875), The Haunted Hotel (1879)
and Gail Carriger s Soulless (2009) International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference, Prague, 01.-04.11.2016: The Many Faces of the Literary New Woman International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference Venice, 28.06-01.07.2016: From Victorian Normativity to Modern Individualism The 9 th Annual Conference on Literature - Athens, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 06-09.06.2016:Reviving the Victorians in the Twenty-First Century: Writing About the Present? The 3rd Annual International Conference on Humanities & Arts in a Global World - Athens, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 03-06.01.2016: Adaptation or Appropriation: Re-narrating the Victorian Past as an Ethical Decision The 8th Annual Conference on Literature - Athens, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 08-11.06.2015: The Revisionary Influence: Neo-Victorian Fiction and the Past Redeemed International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference - Las Vegas, 16-20.03.2015: The Bildungsroman Revisited: J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye: and M. Duras' "The Lover" and "The North China Lover". An Intertextual Study of the Genre International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference Malta, 02-06.03.2014: The Faces of Intertextuality in the Literary Analysis: A Reappraisal PASE 2014: Visions and Revisions, Lublin, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 07-09.04.2014: Bakhtin s Polyphony of Voices in Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Beyond Words: Crossing Borders in English Studies, Cracow, Jagiellonian University, 24-26.04.2014: Syrie James The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë and the Biography Retold: Reducing the Distance Between the Reader and the Past Femininities and Masculinities: A Gender and Sexuality Project A Global Network For Dynamic Research and Publishing Lisbon, 02-04.05.2014: Victorian Women in the
Modern Literary Framework: Gaining the Voice. A Study in Clare Boylan s Emma Brown and Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea The War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities - Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 27-29.11.2014: Reconfigurations of the Victorian Women in Neo-Victorian fiction. A Bakhtinian Approach. 7th Annual International Conference on Literature Athens, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 09-12.06.14: Texts in a Dialogue: Domesticating the Past Mini Conference on Law and Literature: ATINER, Athens, 08-11.07.2013: The Author and her Work: Charlotte Brontë s "Shirley" as a Therapeutic Experience Femininities and Masculinities: A Gender and Sexuality Project A Global Network For Dynamic Research and Publishing, Prague, 21-24.05.2013: Femininity and Masculinity in Gail Carriger s "Soulless" and "Changeless": Victorian Society Redefined PASE: Face to Face, Page to Page, Warsaw, 21-24.04.2013: Between Biography and Interpretation: A Study in Charlotte Brontë s "Jane Eyre", "Shirley" and "Villette" International Journal of Arts & Sciences Paris, 08-11.04.2013: Fashion as a Cultural Sign of Change A Study in Wilkie Collins The Woman in White and Gail Carriger s "Soulless" and "Changeless" PUBLICATIONS Title Publication information 1. "O Państwie Cedrów" Archeologia Żywa 4 (38) 2006 2. Fashion as a Cultural Sign of Change: A Study in Wilkie Collins The Woman in White and Gail Carriger s Soulless and Changeless Ed. Błażej Stanisławski International Journal of Arts & Sciences 6(2), 2013 Ed. Joseph Azzopardi ISSN: 1944-6934 Pages: 709-714. 3. The Author and her Work: Charlotte Brontë s Shirley as a Private Law, Public Law and Human Rights, Part IV: Women in Literature.
Therapeutic Experience 4. 'Victorian Women in the Modern Literary Framework: Gaining the Voice. A Study in Clare Boylan s Emma Brown and Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea' 5. Texts in Dialogue: Domesticating the Past 6. Between the Biography and Interpretation: A Study in Charlotte Brontë s Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette' 7. Femininity and Masculinity in Gail Carriger s Soulless and Changeless: Victorian Society Redefined 8. The Faces of Intertextuality in the Literary Analysis: A Reappraisal 9. 'The Revisionary Influence: Neo-Victorian Fiction and the Past Redeemed' 10. 'The Bildungsroman Revisited: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and M. Duras' The Lover and The North China Lover. An Intertextual Study of the Genre' 11. 'The Bakhtinian Polyphony of Voices in Wilkie Collins s The Woman in White' Athens Institute for Education and Research D.A. Frenkel (ed.), (2014) The Contested and the Poetic: Gender and the Body (e-book) Ed. Amanda Stone Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-84888-329-1 Pages: 25-35. Athens Journal of Philology Ed. George Poulos Athens Institute of Education and Research ISSN: 2241-8385 Volume 1, Issue 3, 2014 Pages: 173-183. PASE volumes: Face to Face, Page to Page Ed. Dorota Babilas, Agnieszka Piskorska, Paweł Rutkowski Uniwersytet Warszawski 2014. Pages: 327-337. All Equally Real: Femininities and Masculinities Today (e-book) Ed. Anna Pilińska, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-84888-317-8 International Journal of Arts and Sciences 7(4), 2015 Ed. Joseph Azzopardi ISSN: 1944-6934 Pages: 153-159. Athens Journal of Philology Ed. George Poulos Athens Institute for Education and Research ISSN: 2241-8385 Volume 2, Issue 4, 2015 Pages: 255-263. International Journal of Arts and Sciences 8 (7), 2015 Ed. Joseph Azzopardi ISSN: 1944-6934 Pages: 465-471. PASE volumes: Visions and Revisions Eds.: Grzegorz Czemiel, Justyna Galant, Anna Kędra-Kardela, Aleksandra Kędzierska, Marta Komsta
12. 'Syrie James The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë and the Biography Retold: Reducing the Distance Between the Reader and the Past' 13. From Victorian Normativity to Modern Individualism 14. Full Stop poetry collection Editors: Maria Isaienkova, Olena Lytovka, Aleksandra Tryniecka Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015 338 pp., 13 graphs ISBN 978-3-631-65629-7 hb. (Hardcover) Weight: 0.540 kg, 1.190 lbs Beyond Words: Crossing Borders in English Studies. Vol. 1: Literature Eds.: Magdalena Bleinert-Coyle, Michał Choiński, Zygmunt Mazur Tertium: Kraków 2015 (Paper edition) pp. 347-359 Humanities and Social Sciences Review, vol. 5 No. 3 ISSN: 2165-6258 :: 05(03):473 478 (2016) IRF Press, Warsaw, 12.06.2017. ISBN 978-83-943632-7-7 Illustrations: Aleksandra Tryniecka 15. Adaptation or Appropriation: Re-narrating the Victorian Past as an Ethical Decision 16. Issues: January-March 2015 April-June 2015 July-September 2015 October -December 2015 January-March 2016 Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts (2017) Po Polsku - Quarterly magazine for Polish readers living abroad Eds.: Olena Lytovka (Editor in Chief), Aleksandra Tryniecka ACADEMIC INTERESTS: Victorian and neo-victorian fiction, Victorian literary revival, Steampunk, female characters in neo-victorian texts, textually-created fashion in Victorian and neo-victorian texts, Oscar Wilde and his works, the Brontës and their writing