Bożena Kucałateaches nineteenth-century and contemporary English literature at the Institute of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her academic interests include contemporary fiction, especially history and the novel, retrospection and first-person narratives. Main publications: monograph: Intertextual Dialogue with the Victorian Past in the Contemporary Novel (2012); co-edited books: Writer and Time: James Joyce and After (2010), Confronting the Burden of History: Literary Representations of the Past (2012), Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers (2014).