dr Bartosz Lutostański

Department of British Culture

assistant professor

Room number: 3.515

email: b.lutostanski@uw.edu.pl

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  Office hours: Winter semester 2024/2025
Thursdays 11.30-1 p.m. (please email me to make an appointment)
dr Bartosz Lutostański

Degrees

2019- - Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw

2017-2019 - Assistant Professor, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

2016 – PhD, University of Gdańsk (with distinction)

2010 – MA, University of Gdańsk

 

Research interests and projects

  • new media
  • social media
  • narrative theory
  • social semiotics
  • the contemporary novel in the UK and USA
  • the experimental novel
  • mediality of contemporary arts and culture
  • pop music (especially Britpop and Madchester scene)

Selected publications

Articles (since 2019):

  • Lutostański, B., Make Memes Harder, forthcoming, 2025.
  • Lutostański, B., App Fiction and 'Postdigital Culture', Anglica 33/2, 2024, pp. 72-89.
  • Lutostański, B. i S. Jordan, Postdigital Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics, Anglica 33/2, 2024, pp. 5-13.
  • Lutostański, B., review of Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology, ed. John Pier, The Ohio State University Press, Columbus 2020, pp. 237, "The Problems of Literary Genres", no 4 (144) 2022, pp. 155-158;
  • Lutostański, B., For the New Novel. Interfaces of Literature and Media in Marisha Pessl’s Night Film and Eli Horowitz’s The Pickle Index, in: Literature and Media: Productive Intersections, ed. M. Lachman & M. Cieślak, Berlin, Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 201-217;
  • Lutostański, B., Gombrowicz, in: Online Encyclopedia of Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes, 2021;
  • Lutostański, B. & M. Rembowska-Płuciennik, Powieść aplikacja - między wolnym czytaniem a szybkim Internetem, "Teksty Drugie", no 5 2020;
  • Lutostański, B., Across the Boundaries of Signs and Media: On Transgeneric Qualities of Selected Contemporary Fiction, "The Problems of Literary Genres", no 2 (63) 2020;
  • Lutostański, B., "The Unbounded. On the Fragmentation Strategies in BS Johnson's Novel", Anglistica Wratislaviensia; no 37 2019;
  • Lutostański, B., "Prolegomena do genologii transmedialnej", Tekstualia, nr 58 (3) 2019;
  • Lutostański, B., "Nienaturalny Gombrowicz", Pamiętnik Literacki, nr 1 2019.

Chapters:

  • Lutostanski, B. “A Poetics of App Fiction". forthcoming 2025;
  • Lutostanski, B. “Intermediality and Digital Fiction”. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Ed. J. Bruhn, A. Lopez-Varela, M. de Paiva Vieira. Palgrave Macmillan 2023, pp. 1147-1167.;
  • Lutostański, B., A Narratology of Radio Drama [in:] Audionarratology; red. J. Mildorf i T. Kinzel, de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2016;
  • Lutostański, B., The door to The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, w: The Between Almanach, red. T. Wiśniewski, Maski, Gdańsk, 2015;
  • Lutostański, B., Refuting a sentence; or how John Berger refutes himself, w: On John Berger. Telling Stories, red. D. Malcolm i R. Hertel, Brill, Amsterdam i New York, 2015.

Books and edited tomes:

  • Postdigital Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics, Anglica 2024, 33/1
  • Genologia transmedialna, B. Lutostański (ed.), „Tekstualia” 2019, nr 3 (58);
  • Postclassical Narratology. Intermediality: Between Texts, Media and Genres, B. Lutostański (ed.), „Tekstualia” 2018, nr 1 (4);
  • Lutostański, B. (2016), Gombrowicz-Beckett. Beckett-Gombrowicz. A Comparative Inter-modal Study. Gdańsk: Gdańsk UP.

 

Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN

Conferences

Conferences

​​​​​​Since 2019:

  • Avatars, Assistants, Chatbots. New Fictional Characters in Contemporary Culture, April 2025.
  • International Society for the Study of Narrative, Newcastle, April 2024.
  • “International Conference on Narrative”, Chichester, 28-30 June 2022, "App Fiction and the Post-digital Aesthetics"
  • European Narratology Network: “‘Gaslight’ Narratives in Virtual Landscapes: Narratological Implications of Technologically Mediated and Immersive Media”, Ryga, 15-16 September 2021, “Influencer Wars”
  • “ICLA Research Committee on Literatures/Arts/Media (CLAM): Transcodification: Literatures Arts Media”, L’Aquila, 1-3 July 2021, “Birth of a New Medium? The Case of App-Driven Fiction”;
  • “International Conference on Narrative”, virtual conference 19-23 May 2021, “App Fiction: A New Genre of Digital Literature”;
  • “Postać w kulturze wizualnej”, Olsztyn, 9-11 May 2020, “Across the Boundaries, or in Between: On the Generic Challenges of Contemporary Fiction” (cancelled);
  • “Society for Novel Studies: The Novel’s New Worlds”, Oxford, 2-4 April 2020, “‘This is not for you’: The Multimedia Novel and the Challenges of Reception” (cancelled);
  • “Literature and Media: Productive Intersection”, Łódź, 24-26 October 2019: “The New Experimental Fiction: The Interface of Literature and Media”.
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Member of the Board of Education at Intercultural Language Studies

Member of the Scientific Council of the Discipline of Literary Studies

Assistant Editor in ANGLICA. An International Journal of English Studies

International cooperation:

  1. Member of International Society for the Study of Narrative,
  2. Member of European Narratological Network,
  3. Member of European Neo-Avant-garde Research Group.

Organiser and host of New Media in Contemporary Culture