Beniamin Kłaniecki

dr Beniamin Kłaniecki

Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics

AMU Representative to EPICUR ECR Board

E-mail: beniamin.klaniecki@amu.edu.pl 
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 202
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link

Websites / Profiles:

• ORCID
• AMU Research Portal (OMEGA PSiR)
• ResearchGate

Degrees:

• B.A. in English, Poznań, 2015
• M.A. in English, Poznań, 2017
• Ph.D. in Postcolonial literature (summa cum laude), Poznań, 2021

Research interests:

• Contemporary British fiction
• Indian writing in English (IWE)
• Nigerian fiction
• Gender and queer studies
• Postcolonial studies

Teaching experience:

• History of British Literature
• Postcolonial Literatures
• TEFL

Papers read at conferences and congresses:

• Ogólnopolska Konferencja XX-wieczne konfrontacje literackie, UW, Warszawa, 2015,
• Ogólnopolska Konferencja Kultura zaangażowana. Społeczno-polityczne inspiracje w kulturze i sztuce, UKW, Bydgoszcz, 2015,
• The Practice of (In)visibility Conference, University of Brighton, UK, 2015,
• The International Conference 50 Shades of Popular Culture, FactaFicta, Kraków, 2016,
• The International Conference The Street and the City – Awakenings, Universidade de Lisboa, Lizbona, 2016,
• The Interdisciplinary Student and Graduate Conference Culture, Identity, and Media, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 2016,
• Interdyscyplinarna Konferencja Naukowa Pozycje literatury, UAM, Poznań, 2016,
• III. Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa Azja nieznana, UAM, Poznań, 2016,
• V. Ogólnopolska Interdyscyplinarna Studencko-Doktorancka Konferencja Naukowa Między Wschodem a Zachodem, między Północą a Południem, UW, Warszawa, 2016,
• International Conference on Gender Studies, Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, Kraków, 2016,
• “NEWstories: Faces of Crisis in 20th- and 21st- Century Prose” Conference, UJ, Kraków, 2019,
• The Third Biennial Conference Talking Bodies, The Institute of Gender Studies at the University of Chester, UK, 2017,
• Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa (Nie)męskość w tekstach kultury XIX-XXI wieku, UG, Gdańsk, 2017.
• The International Conference “Thinking Gender Justice”, University College Dublin, 2018, Ireland,
• The International Conference “Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place”, University of Nottingham, 2018, UK,
• The Fourth Biennial Conference ‘Talking Bodies’, The Institute of Gender Studies at the University of Chester, UK, 2019,
• Queer Celebrity Conference, Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK, 2019,
• 28th PASE Conference "Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic", Poznań, Poland, 2019,
• “NEWstories: Shades of Hope in 20th- and 21st- Century Prose” Conference, UJ, Kraków, 2020,
• 22nd Utopian Studies Society Conference, Brighton, UK, 2022. 

Research visits:

• Robinson College, University of Cambridge, August 2018,
• Robinson College, University of Cambridge, July-August 2022.

Professional Organisations:

• International E.M. Forster Society
• European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
• Utopian Studies Society

Scholarships:

• The Ministry of Science and Higher Education scholarship for outstanding achievements in the academic year 2016/2017,
• The Marshall of Greater Poland scholarship for outstanding academic achievements, 2017,
• Clifford and Mary Corbridge Trust Scholarship, 2018,
• Clifford and Mary Corbridge Trust Scholarship, 2022. 

Publications

• Publications in the PBN database