Dorota Osińska

PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw

MA in English Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw

Contact: da.osinska@uw.edu.pl

Research interests

·      late 18th, 19th, and early 20th-century British poetry

·      the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

·      British Aestheticism

·      the relationship between visual arts and literature

·      revisionist poetry

Conference presentations

Narracje w Humanistyce, Artes Liberales and MISH, University of Warsaw – Revisions of Female Hellenic Narratives in 19th century British Literature and Art

2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Loneliness; InMind Support – New Woman Alienation: Representations of Loneliness in Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus

Historie kobiece – dzieje, opowieści i narracje z damskiej strony przedstawiane, „Dzień Dobry! Kolektyw Kultury.” – The Wronged Wives (?): female experience in Amy Levy’s „Xantippe” and Carol Ann Duffy „Penelope”

Warsaw Literary Meetings, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw – “She is a pregnant horror as she stands”: Medea and the Other in Amy Levy’s Medea. A Fragment”

Galicia Studies in Linguistics, Literature and Culture, University of Rzeszów – Venerable Vulnerability: Representations of the Virgin Mary in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Visual and Written Works

Contacts & Contrasts 2021: Interlingual and intercultural contacts and contrasts – approaches and practices, the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin – “Encountering a primeval Eden: English and Bengali Influences in Toru Dutt’s “Sonnet – Baugmaree”

Ars Culturae Memoriae” Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw – “The worship which is Love”: Intersection of Christianity and Mythology in Alfred Tennyson’s “Demeter and Persephone”

Publications

“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 InnocenceFolio. A Students’ Journal 4, 2018: 13–18.

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