Metateksty i parateksty teatru i dramatu

Jadwiga Czerwińska – full Professor at the University of Łódź, the chief editor of “Collectanea Philologica”, a member of The Committee on Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), The Classical Association, The Center Latinitatis Europae, The Scientific Committee of Łódź (ŁTN), The Scientific Committee at Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), The Polish Philological Committee (PTF), the stipendist of Fondation Hardt pour L’Etude de L’Antiquité Classique, Vandoeuvres-Genève and The Lanckoroński Foundation. Interested in Greek theatre and drama (mainly Euripides), Greek philosophy and the reception of Antiquity in Italian culture. The author of many articles, including Polish and Italian monographs about the works of Euripides. For her achievements she was awarded inter alia with the Medal of the Commission of National Education and many others. She was also prized by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Małgorzata Budzowska – assistant Professor at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Łódź. Her book Phaedra – Ethics of Emotions in the tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine (2012) was awarded as the best PhD thesis in Culture Studies in Poland in 2009. She is co-editor of the volume Ancient Myths in the Making of Culture (2014). Currently she is involved in two research projects: Reception of ancient myths of Mediterranean Culture in Polish theatre of 21^st century and Ancient drama and theatre in the works of scholiasts, funded by the National Science Centre.

Katarzyna Chiżyńska – assistant Professor at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Łódź. PhD (2012) in Classical Literature (Scholia Medicea in Aeschyli „Persas” – Translation and Commentary), MA (2007) in Cultural Science (theatre), MA (2005) in Classical Philology. Her current research project is Ancient theatre and drama in the light of scholia (National Science Center). Her research concerns ancient scholars’ works and poetics of ancient drama.

Damian Pierzak – earned his PhD from the University of Silesia in Katowice at the Faculty of Philology (2015) upon presenting a thesis entitled Greek Myth in Cicero’s “Speeches”. His scholarly interests include Roman rhetoric as well as literature and culture of the late republican Rome. He is currently a principal investigator in the project Argument from the Past in Cicero’s Orations. Theory and Practice funded by the Polish National Science Center (NCN).

Piotr Bering – philologist on medieval Latin and historian of medieval history. PhD (1993) on history, facilitation (2001) on literature science. His research area consists of medieval theatre and theatricality, medieval historiography, Polish-German cultural relationships in Middle Ages. He examines medieval and Old-Polish manuscripts. From 2009 acting in the Institute of Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. A member (2007) and a Polish „national contact” (2013) of Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval.

Simon Wirthensohn – PhD, studied German, Italian and Latin literature at the Universities of Innsbruck and Salerno. From 2013 to 2016 he was a junior researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. Currently he is working for the Classics Department of the University of Innsbruck, where he prepares the edition of 18^th century Latin plays from South Tirol.

Małgorzata Mieszek – assistant Professor in the Department of Old-Polish Literature at the University of Łódź. Author of the book about Old-Polish interludes and many articles in several monographs and periodicals. Scientific interests: Old-Polish theatre and drama, popular and adolescent literature.

Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk – PhD student at the Department of Polish Literature of the 20^th and 21^st Century at the University of Łódź. Recipient of the Foundation of University of Łódź Prize for the outstanding MA thesis. Recipient of the first prize of the “Polityka” weekly magazine for the outstanding MA thesis on the history of the Polish People’s Republic. Distinguished in the 9th W. Pobóg-Malinowski Competition for the Best Historical Debut (2016). Member of the Commission for Studies of Genetic and Documentary Studies of Literature at PAN Łódź. Principal investigator in National Science Centre grant: Post-war Polish literature in the light of cryptotext (on the basis of bulletins of the Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows 1945–1956). Her research interests are: censorship of the Polish People’s Republic, children and young adult literature.

Tomasz Kaczmarek – assistant Professor at the Department of the Romance Philology at the University of Łódź, PhD of Université de Paris-IV (Paris-Sorbonne). His research interests include mainly French and Italian literature of the 20^th century, especially in the area of drama and avant-garde theater in Europe in the first half of the 20^th century. He is an author of three monographs on the work of Henri-René Lenormand, the French theater from the perspective of the expressionist aesthetics and Anarchy in the French theater.

Michał Nikodem – PhD student at the Chair of Theory of Literature at the Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia in Katowice. MA in Polish Philology, specialization Literary Studies (2015) and in Psychology, specialization Clinical Psychology (2015). His intellectual interests are theories of literature, psychoanalysis, popular culture.

Marta Sterna – she graduated with a Master’s degree in Classical Philology (MA thesis: The antic roots of Pulcinella) and in Italian Philology (MA thesis: Maternity and sexuality in “The Art of Joy”. Two lines of Modesta formation process, a free woman) from University of Łódź. She is currently a PhD student of Language, Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Łódź. Areas of her research interest are Neapolitan theatre of 20th century, theatre of Ancient Greece and Italian women writers (mainly Goliarda Sapienza).

Grażyna Starak – D. Litt., PhD, assistant Professor at the Chair of French and Francophone Literature and Culture at the University of Silesia in Katowice. She has been awarded scholarships from the Government of the French Republic several times. She is interested in modern French theatre, anthropology of the theatre, and theatrical language. She has published articles in Poland and abroad and taken part in international conferences on literary and theatre studies. She is the author of two monographs: Le langage théâtral d’Antonin Artaud (2000), A la recherche de l’Autre. L’oeuvre dramatique de Bernard-Marie Koltès (2014).

Elżbieta Leszkiewicz – PhD student at the Institute of Roman Philology at the Jagiellonian University. Interested in theatrical translation as well as the phenomenon of disintegration of communication in the Theater of the Absurd, especially in the literary works by Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Sławomir Mrożek.

Krystyna Modrzejewska – full Professor, Romanist specialized in literary studies; she manages the Department of French Culture and Language at the Opole University. She is the author of several monographs on various subjects: the reception of the contemporary French theatre in Poland in 1945–1970, the cultural identity of sexes in the 20th century French drama (1997, 2004), the art of seduction in the 20^th century French theatre (2009), the human condition in the 20^th century French literature (2010, 2015). She is also the editor of publications with multiple authors.

Katarzyna Wojtysiak-Wawrzyniak – PhD, assistant Professor at the Department of Spanish Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Graduated from the University of Łódź (French Studies and Cultural Studies) and from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Department of Drama, Theatre and Shows). Her research focuses on 19^th, 20^th and 21^st century Spanish theatre, in particular theatre of Generation of ’27, represented by Federico Garcia Lorca, as well as widely understood cultural anthropology. Her interests include also cultural poetics, a history of the idea and anthropological structures of Gilbert Durand.

Irena Lewkowicz – the university lecturer at the Department of Drama and Theatre at the Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of Łódź. She is interested in the theory of dramatic text, contemporary drama, grotesque in art, culturally marginalized theater. Her works are published in the monographs, periodicals and branch vocabularies. Editor and joint editor of eight books.

Beata Popczyk-Szczęsna – D. Litt., PhD, assistant Professor at the Chair of Theater and Drama Studies at the Institute of Culture and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice. The author of the following books: The figure of Judah in the Polish drama of the 20^th century. Clashes with the reference (2003), Polish dramaturgy after 1989 (2013), Repetitions and returns. About dramatic works of Janusz Głowacki (2015); co-editor of the collective work Drama and experience (2014). She deals with drama and theater of the 20^th century, theory and practices of reading the drama text and the recent Polish stage drama.