dr hab. Magdalena Pypeć
Deparment of British Literature
associate professor
Room number: 2.245
Phone: +48 (22) 5531415
email: magdalenapypec@uw.edu.pl
Wednesdays 13:00-14:30, room 2.245
winter exam session:
27.01.2025, 12:00-13:30, room 2.245
5.02.2025, 8:30-10:00, room 2.245
Degrees
"M.A. , University of Warsaw, 1999
Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 2004
Associate Professor, University of Warsaw, 2016"
Research interests and projects
Nineteenth-century novel
Romantic and Victorian literature and culture
Victorian and Romantic poetry and poetics
Literary theory
comparative literature
film adaptation
Selected publications
Books
Travel and Otherness in 19th Century British Writing, edited by M. Pypeć, P. Uściński, Warsaw University Press (WUW), 2022.
Landscapes and Townscapes. Texts and Contexts. Readings in 18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture, edited by G. Bystydzieńska, M. Pypeć, Warsaw University Press, 2021
Literature, Music, Drama and Performance. Texts and Contexts. Readings in 18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture, ed. G. Bystydzieńska, M. Pypeć,Warsaw University Press, 2019.
Studies in English Literature and Culture, ed. A. Kędra-Kardela, A. Kędzierska, M. Pypeć, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 2017.
The Victorian Poet and His Readers: The Strange Case of Tennyson's The Princess. Peter Lang, 2016.
Chapters
“Oliver Twist and the Battered Woman Syndrome.” New Perspectives on Charles Dickens, ed. Anna Enrichetta Soccio, Solfanelli, 2023, pp. 75-92.
“Literary Criticism as Women’s Rights Activism in Anna Jameson’s Shakespeare’s Heroines.” Female Vices. Forms of Women’s Reading, Self-Education and Writing in Britain (1770-1830), ed. Eva Antal and Antonella Braida, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2022, pp. 241-256.
“The Rhetoric of Imperial Gothic in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Travel and Otherness in 19th Century British Writing, ed. P. Uściński and M. Pypeć, Warsaw University Press, 2022, pp. 165-196.
“Opium as a Keyword in Dickens’s Novels.” Some Keywords inDickens, ed. Michael Hollington, Francesca Orestano, Nathalie Vanfasse. Gӧttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2021, pp. 131-149.
“Dickens Writes Trauma: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture, edited by G. Bystydzieńska and E. Harris, Warsaw University Press, 2021, pp. 149-164.
“The Beginnings of Higher Education for Women in Victorian Britain. Queen’s College in London and Its Literary Counterpart in Tennyson’s The Princess.” Femmes et le Savoir/Women and Knowledge/Frauen und Wissen, ed. J. Godlewicz-Adamiec, D. Krawczyk, M. Łuczyńska-Hołdys, P. Piszczatowski, M. Sokołowicz, Classiques Garnier, 2019, pp. 379-389.
“The Theatrical Trope as a Narrative Device in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Literature, Music, Drama and Performance. Texts and Contexts. Readings in 18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture, ed.M. Pypeć and G. Bystydzieńska, Warsaw University Press, 2019, pp. 143-159.
“The Racialized Body in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture, ed. G. Bystydzieńska and E. Harris, Warsaw University Press, 2018, pp. 273-284.
“Mesmerism in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Studies in English Literature and Culture, ed. Anna Kędra-Kardela, Aleksandra Kędzierska and Magdalena Pypeć, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 2017, pp. 219-230.
“The Mesmerist as a Criminal in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Gothic, Sensation and Detection. Texts and Contexts. Readings in 18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture, ed. G. Bystydzieńska. Pracownia Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich, 2017, pp. 227-240.
"Depicting the Body in the Victorian Novel - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." Things and Images in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture, edited by G. Bystydzieńska, Pracownia "Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich, 2016, pp. 227-235.
"The Female Grotesque in Tennyson's The Princess." From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture. Vol. 5., edited by E. Harris and G. Bystydzieńska, Pracownia "Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich, 2016, pp. 351-362).
"Beautifully got up, but the illustrations we cannot admire" - Tennyson's The Princess as a ChristmasGift Book." Things and Images in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture, edited by G. Bystydzieńska, Pracownia "Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich, 2016, pp. 127-138.
"Wuthering Heights and the Nineteenth Century Campaign for the Abolishion of Slavery." Face to Face, Page to Page. PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture, edited by D. Babilas , A. Piskorska i P. Rutkowski, WUW, 2014, pp. 319-326.
"Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and Two Beelzebubs - The Significance of Miltonic and Dantesque Echoes in the Poem." From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture vol. 4, edited by E. Harris and G. Bystydzieńska, Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich, 2014, pp. 453-461.
"Outlaw Emotions": Carol Ann Duffy's "Eurydice", Dramatic Monologue and Victorian Women Poets." Crossroads in Literature and Culture, edited by J. Fabiszak , E. Urbaniak-Rybicka and B. Wolski, Springer, 2013.
Articles
“The Power of the Eye and Point of View in Oliver Twist.” Dickens Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, 2024, pp. 166-185.
“Book Review: Dickens, Death and Christmas by Robert Patten, OUP.” English Studies, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2368964
“Book Review: Dickens and Victorian Psychology, by Tyson Stolte, OUP 2022.” The Dickensian, vol. 119, no. 519, 2023, pp. 87-89.
2021. “London and Cloisterham as an Imperial ‘Heart of Darkness’ in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood.”Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 349-370.
“Book Review: Dickens and the Anatomy of Evil. Sesquicentennial Essays, ed. Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Athena Press, 2020.” The Dickensian, no. 514, vol. 117 Part 2, summer 2021, pp. 184-186.
“The Gothic Tradition and A Christmas Carol.” The Dickens Magazine, series 7, vol. 1, 2019, pp. 21-23.
"Carnivalesque Gardens in Tennyson's The Princess." Acta Philologica, vol. 47, 2015, pp. 51-60.
"Disguise and Gender in Tennyson's The Princess." The New Review : an International Journal of British Studies, vol. 5, 2015, pp. 95-105.
"Tennyson's Weeper Revisited - 'Tears, Idle Tears' in Context." Studia Methodologica, vol. 39, 2014, pp. 13-18.
"Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Tennyson's The Princess." Acta Philologica, 2014, pp. 29-35.
"Taking a Stand on Remembrance: Emily Jane Bronte and Victorian Literary Annuals." Acta Philologica, 2013, pp. 38-44.
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN
Other
Courses conducted at The Institute of English Studies, UW:
Dickens i zbrodnia / Dickens and Crime
Twórczość Karola Dickensa w adaptacji filmowej i teatralnej / Dickens Re-visioned
Szczegółowa analiza i interpretacja wybitnego tekstu literackiego: Oliver Twist Karola Dickensa / Close Reading of a Major English Text: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Dickens i wiktoriańska powieść seryjna: czytanie Dickensa w odcinkach / Dickens and the Victorian Serial Novel: Reading Dickens in Instalments
Poezja wiktoriańska / Victorian Poetry
Literatura angielska 1 i 2/ English Literature 1 and 2
Wstęp do literaturoznawstwa CLIL 1 i 2 / Introduction to Literary Studies CLIL 1 and 2
Wykład monograficzny: Poezja i proza brytyjska od początku XIX do początku XX wieku / Monographic lecture: British Poetry and Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century
Literatura i kultura brytyjska XIX wieku (wykład monograficzny) / Literature and Culture of the 19th Century Britain (monographic lecture)
Literatura i kultura dziewiętnastowiecznej Anglii (Poezja, proza, krytyka społeczno-literacka, powieść wiktoriańska w adaptacjach filmowych) / Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Poetry, Fiction, Literary and Social Criticism, Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation) – MA Seminar
Nauka języka angielskiego dla celów literaturoznawstwa CLIL 1 i 2 / Practical English for Literary Studies CLIL 1 and 2