e-mail: a.diniejko@uw.edu.pl
Research interests:
– British literature and culture
– Victorian Studies
– Digital Humanities
– Theory of literature
Educational background, degrees:
– D.Litt. (dr hab.) in Literary Studies, University of Warsaw, 2010
– Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Warsaw, 1997
– M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Warsaw, 1970
Professional experience:
2007 – present – University College of English Language Teacher Education,
University of Warsaw
1990-2007 – Foreign Language Teacher Education College, Jan Kochanowski University in
Kielce
1975-1990 – University of Technology in Kielce
1970-1975 – Stefan Żeromski Secondary School in Kielce
Selected publications:
Books:
2023 Byron i jego czasy [Byron and His Times]. A flipbook, 456 pages, open access at:
https://publuu.com/flip-book/292677/756339
2019 Między literaturą a polityką. Benjamin Disraeli na tle swoich czasów
[Between Literature and Politics. Benjamin Disraeli Against the Backdrop of His Time].
Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2019, 282 pages
2010 Introduction to the Study of Literature and Film in English Uniwersytet Warszawski,
Warszawa, 353 pages
2008 The Condition of England Debate in English Fiction: From William Golding’s Calerb
Williams to Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, 264
pages
2006 Existential and Social Perspectives in Thomas Hardy’s Novels, Akademia
Świętokrzyska, Kielce, 159 pages
2005 An Introduction to the United States of America, Wyd. Egis, Kraków, 191 pages
1999 English-Speaking Countries: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and the
Republic of Ireland, vol. I, 151 pages, Warszawa: WSiP
1983 English Practice for Engineering Students, Politechnika Świętokrzyska, Kielce, 160
pages
1975 Wybrane zagadnienia z literatury angielskiej i amerykańskiej. Instytut Kształcenia
Nauczycieli i Badań Oświatowych, Kielce, 91 pages
Selected articles:
2016 “Benjamin Disrael’s Tancred as an Imperial Utopia”, in: From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture, ed. by
Grażyna Bystydzieńska and Emma Harris, Vol. 5,
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Anglistyki, Pracownia “Ośrodek Studiów
Brytyjskich”, 109-118
2015 “John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman as an Early Neo-Victorian Novel
with an Existentialist Message”, Victorianomania. Reimagining, Refashioning, and
Rewriting Victorian Literature and Culture, a cura di Simonetta Falchi, Greta Perletti,
Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 17-38.
„Ruth and the Fallen Woman Question in Victorian England”, Evil and Its Variations in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Sesquicentennial Essays. Edited by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Osaka: Kyoiku Tosho, 121-136.
“Benjamin Disraeli a idea imperialna”, Filologia. IV Zeszyty Naukowe Uczelni Vistula. 39/2015, 5-23
2012 “The Victorian Web: An Invaluable Resource For Teachers and Students of
Victorian Literature, History and Culture”, Figures in the Carpet a cura di Giulia
Pissarello, Edizioni Tracce, Abruzzo, 395-405
2009 “Rewriting Multiculturalism in Postcolonial British Fiction”, Philology Issue 1,
Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Ekonomiczno-Informatycznej w Warszawie, 7-22
“Mismatched marriages and sexual politics in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Anglica, ed. by Andrzej Weseliński, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 85-98
2008 “Englishness as Literary Discourse”, Literature and Culture, ed. by Sławomir Wącior
and Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL. Katolicki
Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, 57-72
2001 “The Search for Meaning and Interpretation of the Cultural Load in Literary Texts”,
The Evidence of Literature, ed. by Sven-Johan Spånberg, Henryk Kardela, Gerald
Porter. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, Lublin, 63-72
2000 „Problemy i propozycje metodologiczne w praktyce dydaktyczne historyka literatury
obcej na trzyletnich zawodowych studiach neofilologicznych”, Kieleckie Studia Neofilologiczne 1, pod redakcją Andrzeja Diniejki, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna im.
Jana Kochanowskiego, Kielce, 115-119
1999 “The Notion of Personal Freedom in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence and John Fowles”, Tradition and Postmodernity: English and American Studies and the Challenge of the Future, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English and American Literature and Language, ed. by Teresa Bela i Zygmunt Mazur Kraków: Universitas, 227-235
“Existential Perspective in English Fiction from Thomas Hardy to John Fowles. A. Philosophical Background and an Overview”, in: Doświadczenie moralne i filozofia człowieka, pod redakcją Ireneusza Świtały, Częstochowa, 217-228
1998 “Existentialist Perspective in Thomas Hardy’s Major Fiction”, Kwartalnik
Neofilologiczny. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, XLV, 2/1998, 105-123.
1994 „Teaching Background Knowledge to English-Speaking Countries In ELT”, The
Third International IATEFL PL Conference 18-20 November 1994. Kielce, 1994, 5
pages
1987 “Standard terminology for international communication”, Neoterm, Journal of the
International Organization for Unification of Terminological Neologisms – IOUTN,
Nr 7/8, 1987, 7 pages
Selected online publications in The Victorian Web (2017-2015)
Benjamin Disraeli’s The Rise of Iskander as a Philhellenic Tale of Chivalry and Love
Isaac D’Israeli (1766-1848): A Biographical Sketch
Henrietta Temple — Disraeli’s Semi-Autobiographical Romance About Love and Money
Benjamin Disraeli’s Autobiographical Reveries in Contarini Fleming
The Imperial Idea in Benjamin Disraeli’s Alroy
Benjamin Disraeli’s Vivian Grey as a Silver-Fork Novel With a Key
Benjamin Disraeli’s The Young Duke as a Silver Fork-Novel With Social Commentary
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla as a Satire on Utilitarianism
Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes As a Cliffhanger with a Post-Darwinian Message
A Quest for the Eternal Feminine Ideal in The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
Castles, cameras, and telegraphy — ancient and modern in Thomas Hardy’s A Laodicean
Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet Major – A Minor Masterpiece With a Flaw
Benjamin Disraeli’s Vivian Grey as a Silver-Fork Novel With a Key
Subversion and Self-reflexivity in Thomas Hardy’s The Hand of Ethelberta
Under the Greenwood Tree: Thomas Hardy’s Early Masterpiece
Thomas Hardy’s Desperate Remedies As a Sensation Romance With Intertextual Clues and Allusions
Thomas Hardy’s Affinities With Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann
Selected book translations
2023 Aneta I. Oborny, Lira korbowa – instrument romantycznego mitu [Hurdy-gurdy. An
instrument of Romantic myth]. Muzeum Ludowych Instrumentów w Szydłowcu,
Szydłowiec 2023
2021 Aneta I. Oborny, Efemerofity na ziemiach polskich. Śladem migracji instrumentów
muzycznych. Ephemerophytes on Polish Lands. Traces of the Migration of Musical
Instruments. Muzeum Ludowych Instrumentów w Szydłowcu, Szydłowiec 2021.
2015 Natan Sznaider, Pamięć żydowska i kosmopolityczny ład, Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa,
Warszawa 2015, 101-189.
2011 The Auschwitz Poems ed. by Adam A. Zych. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum,
Oświęcim, translation of some poems, Introduction and footnotes, 544 pages.
1991 Roman Mierzecki, The Historical Development of Chemical Concepts. Translation
from Polish by Andrzej Diniejko. Warszawa, Dordrecht [etc.]: PWN [Państ. Wydaw.
Naukowe], Kluwer Academic Publishers, Polish Scientific Publishers, 281 pages
1973 Protection of Man’s Natural Environment A Collective work/ initiated and planned by Władysław Szafer prepared for publication by Włodzimierz Michajłow;
[translated from the Polish by Andrzej Diniejko (30 stron) et al.], PWN, Kraków