Agnieszka Przybyszewska

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Agnieszka Przybyszewska works as an assistant professor at the University of Łódź (Poland) and has been a visiting research fellow at Bath Spa University (UK) since 2020, as well as a research affiliate at Washington State University Vancouver (Electronic Literature Lab). During a summer of 2025 she was a visiting researcher at Immersive Storytelling Lab at York University (Canada). Agnieszka holds a double degree in Polish literary studies and film&media studies, and received her PhD in literary studies. She co-created creative writing studies at University of Łódź and she is frequently supervising artistic projects that use new media for storytelling. Agnieszka led various research projects focused on digital storytelling (including XR), for example: “Audience research as an element of the XR literature research methodology – a pilot study of VR poetry” (NCN 2023-2024) or “Kate Pullinger and innovation in digital writing: from multimodal interactive narrative to haptic, corporeal reading” (NAWA 2020-2022). She was also part of Bath & Bristol R&D project “Amplified publishing”, researching VR and AR as literary platforms, editor of a thematic issue of “The Writing Platform” on XR storytelling and curator of the exhibition “VR and Literature: an (Im)possible Romance” in the British Library (London), which was part of 2023 MIX conference. She is member of Electronic Literature Organisation and Centrum Badań nad Literaturą Elektroniczną UAM, co-editor of “The Writing Platform”. Agnieszka’s book “Kate Pullinger and Innovation in Digital Writing” will soon be published by Bloomsbury Press in the Electronic Literature series, and Agnieszka is also the author of several dozen articles on e-literature, published in peer-reviewed journals and collective academic publications.

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Assistant professor
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