e-mail: eliza.gladkowska@uwm.edu.pl

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8276-2468

2023 PhD in Literary Studies, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

PhD dissertation "Identity in-between. Liminality and related narrative techniques in selected novels by Anita Brookner"

2013 MA in English Studies, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

MA dissertation “The relationship between the visions of London in V. Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and E.M. Forster's Howards End and the paintings depicting London at the beginning of the 20^th century”

2005-2006 Middlesex University in London

Printed Textiles, School of Art and Design

2005 Art Diploma, Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych in Olsztyn

Research interest:

• liminality in modernist and contemporary British literature
• narrative identity processes in modernist and contemporary literature
• intertextuality and visuality in literature, especially in the prose of E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Anita Brookner, and Zadie Smith
• space studies

Memberships:

2020 – present member of International E.M. Forster Society

2016-2019 – member of International Katherine Mansfield Society

2014-2018 – member of Koło Naukowe AngloCooltura Seniors

Library and archival research:

2016 – Humboldt Bibliothek, Berlin

2014 – British Library,London

Articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in multi-author monographs:

Gładkowska, E., and A. Kwiatkowska. “Drill Hall or Ball Hall? On Pedagogical Implications of the Old Age Motif in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Story ‘Her First Ball’” Narrative Works, 12 (1), 2023, pp. 102–118.

Gładkowska, E. “Education and Therapy Through Art in the Reality of a Post-Pandemic School.” Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana, 24 (4), 2021, pp. 191–209. DOI 10.12775/SPI.2021.4.010.

Gładkowska, E. “Communication approach and CLIL as threshold concepts in the training of future foreign language teachers in grades I–III.” Rozprawy Społeczne, 14 (3), 2020, pp. 76–87.

Gładkowska, E. “Reverse potential of liminality in ‘Hotel du Lac’ by Anita Brookner.” Zeszyty Naukowe Towarzystwa Doktorantów Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 14.(3), 2016, pp. 97–107.

Gładkowska, E. “Insidious Tales and Grim(m) Realities in Anita Brookner’s Bay of Angels.” Old Masters in New Interpretations, edited by A. Kwiatkowska, Cambridge Scholar Press, 2016, pp. 132–147.

Gładkowska, E. “The Origins of the Crisis of the Social and National Identity Presented in Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster.” Innovative Practice and Research Trends in Identity, Citizenship and Education, edited by P. Cunningham and N. Fretwell, London CiCe, 2014, pp. 204–210.

Gładkowska, E. “Milczenie o gwałtach na Niemkach na Warmii i Mazurach w 1945 roku a współczesna niemiecka tożsamość kulturowa tego regionu”, w: K. Gładkowski (red.), Problem stosunków polsko-niemieckich po traktacie z 1991 roku z perspektywy regionalnej. Olsztyn: Instytut Nauk Politycznych UWM, 2014, s. 171 –182.

Gładkowska, E. “Londyńska mgła a nierealność modernistycznego miasta”, w: A. Lica (red.), Integralia III. Wymiary Studenckiej Humanistyki. Elbląg: Wydawnictwo PWSZ w Elblągu, 2014, s. 203–209.

Papers at international conferences:

“Howards End and its Afterlives in Popular Culture”, ‘A Passage to India’ – Centenary Revaluations, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, Uniwersytet Warszawski, International E. M. Forster Society, Olsztyn, June 2024.

“Teaching Mansfield in ESL Classroom”, Katherine Mansfield: Light, Life, and Renewal, Katherine Mansfield Society, Fontainebleau, October 2023.

“Sinking Ship Named University: the Origin of the Crisis in American Academia as Depicted in the Series ‘The Chair’”, EXπRE. Going Off in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej in Lublinie and Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, online, December 2022.

“Space and identity in the early novels of Anita Brookner”, Latecomers: Anita Brookner Then and Now, University of Melbourne, March 2017.

“Endlessly In-between. Liminal States in E. M. Forster’s Howards End and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty”, The World of E. M. Forster – E. M. Forster and the World, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, Uniwersytet Warszawski, International E. M. Forster Society, Olsztyn, September 2016.

“Liminality in the fictions of Katherine Mansfield and Anita Brookner”, Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story, Northampton University, Katherine Mansfield Society, Bandol, June 2016.

“Dubious Memory and Nostalgia in Anita Brookner’s Novels” Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia, Uniwersytet Gdański, Sao Paulo University, McGill University. Gdańsk, September2015.

“Various levels of liminality in the novels of Anita Brookner”, Exploring Liminality in Anglophone Studies, Vigo University, ASYRAS, Vigo, February 2015.

“Learning the Language of the Ancestors as the Chance to Regain the Lost Identity of the German Minority Children in Warmia and Mazury” Innovative Practice and Research Trends in Identity, Citizenship and Education, London Metropolitan University, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski in Olsztynie, Olsztyn, June 2014.

“The Origins of the Crisis of the Social and National Identity Presented in Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster” Innovative Practice and Research Trends in Identity, Citizenship and Education, London Metropolitan University, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski in Olsztynie, Olsztyn, June 2014.

Selected subjects taught:

British literature

Literature in teaching

Literary texts in context

Identity and liminality

Reading scientific texts

Phonetics and practical grammar of English

Conversations in English

Selected issues in English-language literature

English language teaching methodology

Methodology of art education

English language methodology in early education

Interests and hobbies:

curatorship of hopeless cases

advanced creative procrastination