Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences where she was a chair of the Theoretical Poetics Department for 2 decades. She was also lecturer at the Theatrical Academy in Warsaw. Main research interests: poetics, stylistics, metaphorology, textlinguistics, versology. Recent publications: Od słowa do sensu. Studia o metaforze, Warszawa 2012; Tekst poetycki i jego konteksty, Warszawa 2015. In co-editon with Raya Kuncheva: Resemblance and Difference. The Problem of Identity, Sofi a 2015; The Thing. Conceptual and Cultural Aspects, Sofi a 2018. E-mail: dobter@hotmail.com