Principal Investigator: 

Dr Mary Newbould spent many years as a teacher and researcher in English literature at the University of Cambridge. She is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Anglophone Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University.

Mary’s expertise mainly lies in literature and visual culture of the long eighteenth century, with a particular focus on Laurence Sterne’s work and its afterlives. Her first book, Adaptations of Laurence Sterne’s Fiction: Sterneana, 1760– 1840, was published by Ashgate in 2013. Laurence Sterne’s ‘A Sentimental Journey’: A Legacy to the World, an essay collection co-edited with W. B. Gerard, appeared in 2021 (Bucknell University Press). She has co-edited, with Helen Williams, Laurence Sterne and Sterneana, an Open Access dataset hosted by Cambridge Digital Library. Mary is also an editor of Sterne journal The Shandean, she has spoken about Sterne on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' hosted by Melvyn Bragg and on BBC Radio 3's 'Free Thinking', and she’s an active member of the international community of Sterne studies. 

Mary’s other main research interests lie in the intersections between literary and visual cultures. A major essay collection co-edited with Jakub Lipski, The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2024. This is the major output of an NCN Opus project, ‘Interartistic contexts for the development of the early English Novel’, on which Mary is Co-Investigator.

Mentor

Jakub Lipski – dr hab., professor and head of the Department of Anglophone Literatures at the Faculty of Literary Studies, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. He is the author of In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne (Rodopi, 2014), Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (Routledge, 2018), Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception (Routledge, 2021) as well as a number of articles and book chapters on eighteenth-century English literature. He has recently edited a collection of essays, Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, and Media (Bucknell UP, 2020), and the first complete edition of Robinson Crusoe in Polish (for the National Library Series, forthcoming in 2023). He is the Principal Investigator of two externally funded projects: "Interartistic contexts for the evelopment of the early English novel" (NCN Opus, 2021-24) and "The poetics of the body in the English Robinsonade" (NCN Sonata, 2021-2023).