professor of English Literature at the University of Gdańsk. He is the author of Gazing in Useless Wonder. English Utopian Fiction 1516–1800 (2013), Robinson Crusoe and His Doubles (2016) and Utopian Visions and Revisions (2017). He has co-edited several volumes on literary/cultural theory: Texts of Literature, Texts of Culture, Texts in/of Texts, Structure and Uncertainty and utopian/dystopian fi ction and cinema: Imperfect Worlds and Dystopian Narratives in Contemporary Cinema (2011), Spectres of Utopia. Theory, Practice, Conventions (2012), Mediated Utopias (2015). E-mail: artur.blaim@ug.edu.pl