dr Karolina Wierel

Karolina Wierel, PhD, Vice-Dean for  Educational Affairs

k.wierel@uwb.edu.pl

Karolina Wierel, PhD, assistant professor at the Department of Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Bialystok, cultural expert, philologist. She is interested in catastrophic and post-apocalyptic works, the motif of the Book in culture, the relationship between culture, literature and film, the history of orality and literacy, and contemporary currents of thought in the philosophy of culture, especially in the new humanities, ecological humanities, posthumanism, and post-secularism.

Recent publications

• Księga w nie-ludzkim świecie. Motyw Księgi w postapokaliptycznych przekazach literackich i filmowych przełomu XX i XXI wieku. (2019). [The book in a non-human world. The motif of the Book in post-apocalyptic literary and cinematic works at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries]. Publisher: Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Białystok.
• Po co nam postapokalipsy. Kultura postapokaliptyczna na początku XXI wieku

z perspektywy kultur Zachodu. (2017). [Why do we need post-apocalypses? Post-apocalyptic culture at the beginning of the 20th century from the perspective of Western cultures]. „Przegląd Humanistyczny”, 1 (456).

• Postapokaliptyczna wizja człowieka w trylogii Dmitrija Głuchowskiego: Metro 2033, Metro 2034, Metro 2035. (2016) [The post-apocalyptic vision of man in Glukhovsky's trilogy: Metro 2033, Metro 2034, Metro 2035]. „Annales Universitatis Maria Curie-Skłodowska”, 2 (XXXIV)
• Nie-tylko ludzkie pragnienia - refleksje na temat kompleksu omnipotencji [Non-just-human desires - reflections on the omnipotence complex] (Białystok 2015).

Hobbies and interests: travelling, especially to the Balkans and the USA, cycling, children's literature, participation in music festivals, contemporary dance, TV series

She has performed the following functions at the University of Białystok:

- Deputy Director for Educational Affairs (since 2019)

- Senate Committee for Educational Affairs

- the Council of the Institute of Cultural Studies

- Institute Committee for Quality of Education

- Erasmus+ Programme Coordinator  (2018-2020)

- Erasmus+ Programme Coordinator at the Inter-faculty Institute of Cultural Studies and Art

- Project coordinator at the Inter-faculty Institute of Cultural Studies and Art "Forge of competences of students of the Faculty of History, Sociology, Philology and the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Bialystok" in 2018.

She has been a member of the following academic teams and associations:

- Białystok branch of the Polish Society of Cultural Studies

- Member of the Interdisciplinary Research Team for Science Fiction at the University of Białystok

- Member of the Research Team for the Philosophy of Culture at the Department of Culture and Media Studies of the Inter-faculty Institute of Cultural Studies and Art

- managing a research project  Diagnoza Stanu, Potrzeb I Perspektyw

Rozwoju Ruchów Folklorystycznych Województwa Podlaskiego Cz. I Amatorskie Zespoły Folklorystyczne (2021) [Diagnosis of the State, Needs and Perspectives for

Development of Folklore Movements of the Podlaskie Voivodeship Part I Amateur Folk Ensembles]

- co-author of the Raport Dotyczący Potrzeb Dzieci i Młodzieży Związanych z Szeroko Rozumianą Sferą Kultury. Badanie Przeprowadzone W Ramach Programu Bardzo Młoda Kultura- Perspektywa Wojewódzka (2021) [Report on the Needs of Children and Youth Related to the Broadly Understood Sphere of Culture. The study carried out within the framework of the Very Young Culture - Provincial Perspective Programme]

Selected publications:

• The End, Power and the Media: Catastrophic Imagination in Film Discourse. Analysis of the Phenomenon on the Example of Adam McKay's Don't Look, "Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica" 2021–2022, 22(4)–23(1): 77–91
• Literatura lęku/literatura nadziei. "Księgi" katastrofizmu i postapokaliptyki przełomu wieku XX i XXI. (2018).[Literature of fear/literature of hope. "Books" of catastrophe and post-apocalypse at the turn of the 20th and 21st century]. Lublin, "Annales Universitatis Marie Curie-Sklodowska Sectio FF Philologiae", vol. 36(2), pp. 107-120.