Biography

Conferences attended as a speaker: 

• 5th LIES Poznan, Poland April 2010:  Crossing borders in Rachna Mara's Of customs and Excise
  
• International Joseph Conrad Conference, Lublin, July 2011 : Veering wind imagery in Conrad's short stories
  
• 43rd Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Rochester, NY, March 2012:  Ship as paradigms of paradoxical unities in Conrad's short fiction about the sea.
  
• 38th Joseph Conrad Conference: Conrad in Bath, Bath Spa July 3-7 2012. Paper entitled: "To see the last of her": Emotionscapes in "Freya of the Seven Isles", The Shadow-Line and the Brute"

Research Interests

• Joseph Conrad
• short story; storytelling across media
• reader response
• mobilities
• sea and travel
• interculturality
• creativity and emotion 

Teaching

Academic year 2011/2011, semester II: Identity, Character and Memory: Text and Film