Małgorzata Hołda. Dr habil. in the discipline of literary studies. Assistant Professor at the Department of British Literature and Culture. She conducts interdisciplinary research in Anglophone literature and philosophy. Her published work explores topics within British modern and postmodern novel, philological and philosophical hermeneutics (with special emphasis on Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of the self as l’homme capable and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics), aesthetics, phenomenology, and postmodern philosophy.

The author of On Beauty and Being: Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Virginia Woolf’s Hermeneutics of the Beautiful, Peter Lang, 2021. PhD in British literature with a dissertation, Between Liberal Humanism and Postmodernist Fun: The Fiction of Malcolm Bradbury (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń 2006). PhD in philosophy with distinction for her dissertation, Paul Ricoeur’s Concept of Subjectivity and the Postmodern Claim of the Death of the Subject (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow), published by Ignatianum University Press, 2018. Senior Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics. The member of Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain (London), The European Society for Aesthetics, Central and East European Society for Phenomenology, The Australasian Modernist Studies Network, and New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy International Project. Associate editor of Text Matters: A Journal in Literature, Theory and Culture.

British modern and postmodern novel, philological and philosophical hermeneutics, aesthetics, phenomenology, and postmodern philosophy