Samsel Karol
(1986), PhD in Philosophy, Post-doctoral degree in Literature Studies, literary historian, poet, philosopher. Assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Literature of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw. He has co-edited the volumes of works devoted to Norwid, Fredro and Poets – Students of Warsaw Underground University: Written in hieroglyph. Cyprian Norwid (Warsaw 2012), Universality of comism. Alexander Fredro in the two hundred and twentieth anniversary of birth (Warsaw 2015) and Poets – Students of Warsaw Underground University and Romanticism (Warsaw 2018). He published his texts in ‘Philological Works’, ‘Studia Norwidiana’ and also in ‘Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland)’. A member of The Polish Joseph Conrad Society, researcher of the life and work of Wanda Karczewska. Editor of the essays and sketches section of the literary and cultural quarterly ‘eleWator’. Author of the poetic triptych entitled Trzy pogrzeby, published in years 2014–2016 by the Szczecin publishing house FORMA (Więdnice, 2014, Prawdziwie noc, 2015; Jonestown, 2016), the long epic poem Autodafe (from 1 to 5; 2018–2022), the novel Niemożliwość Piety. E-mail: lewks@wp.pl