doctor of humanities in literary studies, graduate of the Institute of Polish Philology at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, where he works as an assistant at the Department of Literature of the 20th Century. Author of the doctoral thesis entitled Granice ciała. Somapoetyka w twórczości Stanisława Lema (Boundaries of the body. Somapoetics in the works of Stanisław Lem) and a dozen or so scientifi c articles. He publishes critical texts in “Topos” magazine. He also works as a teacher of Polish as a foreign language. E-mail: l.kucharczyk@uksw.edu.pl