PhD in Literary Studies, University of Warsaw – PhD thesis: Hellenism in a Rear-view Mirror: Reinterpretations of Mythological Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and Art
I am an Early Career Researcher, a member of From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria research group and work as a language instructor at the Centre for Foreign Language Teaching, University of Warsaw.
Contact: da.osinska@uw.edu.pl
Research interests
- nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literature and culture
- nineteenth-century poetry and art
- women writers
- late-Victorian period
Publications
“Between Musicality and Materiality: Harry Clarke’s Illustrations to Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1928)”, From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Body & Mind. Volume 8, 2025, 203-214. DOI: 10.31338/uw.978832356728.
The Worship which is Love”: Memory and Revisionism in Alfred Tennyson’s “Demeter and Persephone”.” The Art of Cultural Memory. Eds. Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz, Maria Błaszkiewicz, Paweł Rutkowski. Peter Lang, 2023, 105-123.
“Victorian Hellenism and Trauma: The Reinterpretation of Medea in Augusta Webster’s “Medea in Athens.” Acta Philologica 60, 2023. 137–151. DOI: 10.7311/ACTA.60.2023.11
“Womanhood, Liminality, and Christian Iconography: Augusta Webster’s “Jeanne D’Arc”.” Explorations. A Journal of Language and Literature 11, 2023. 12-27.
“Frustration, Boredom, and Fantasy: Augusta Webster’s “Circe.” ABSA, American and British Studies Annual 16, 2023. DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2508
“The defence of Medea: The subversion of the femme fatale trope in William Morris’s The Life and Death of Jason.” Beyond Philology 20/2, 2023. DOI: 10.26881/bp.
“Bringing Ghosts Down to Earth: Depictions of Spiritualism in the Victorian Popular Press” Polish Journal of English Studies. 7.1, 2021: 20-41
“Murder and Madness: Psychological Reading of Murder in Robert Browning’s Poetry” Po mrocznej stronie – nauki humanistyczno-społeczne w obliczu morderstw i strachu. Red. Anna Krzpiet. Fundacja „Dzień dobry! Kolektyw kultury.” Siemianowice Śląskie 2020: 99–113.
“Then Thickest Dark did Trance the Sky”: A Representation of Psychological Decay in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Mariana.” New Horizons in English Studies 4. 2019: 74–89.
“Non-Angelic Angels: Reinterpretations of Angels in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Ecce Ancilla Domini! and George Frederick Watts’ Death Crowning Innocence” Folio. A Students’ Journal 4, 2018: 13–18.