Old Masters in New Interpretations

Anna Kwiatkowska, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Philology of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, where she is also the Coordinator of the Literature Section. Her main academic interests center around Modernist literature and its links with broadly understood art. She specializes in the works of E.M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield, and is a member of the International E.M. Forster Society and the Katherine Mansfield Society. Her publications include a monograph devoted to the novels of E.M. Forster, entitled Sztuka na miarę, czyli dwa światy bohaterów E. M. Forstera [Custom-made Art or Two Worlds of the E. M. Forster’s Characters] (2013), and the articles “‘What Hilda Knew’: The Use of Understatement in ‘The Obelisk’ by E.M. Forster” (2004), “Ironic Reflections on Life: E. M. Forster’s Novels and Henri Bergson’s Philosophy of Laughter” (2010), and “What Is Left of the Modernist Short Story ‘Sun and Moon’ by Katherine Mansfield in Polish Translation?” (2015).