dr hab. Lipski Jakub PawełEnglish

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), Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade (Brill, 2024), 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 three volumes  of Robinson Crusoe in Polish (for the National Library Series, 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).