Planning editor

Planning editor of the Publishing House
prof. dr hab. Adam Regiewicz
a.regiewicz@ujd.edu.pl

Profile

Adam Regiewicz – born in 1972 in Zabrze, a graduate of Polish Philology at the University of Silesia, where he defended his doctoral thesis and received the title of an independent researcher in the field of humanities. In May 2018, he was awarded the title of professor by the President of the Republic of Poland. Since 2010, he has been professionally associated with Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, where since 2012 he has been the head of the Institute of Polish Philology, the head of the Department of Literary Theory and the head of the Laboratory of Comparative Cultural Studies. In the academic community, he collaborates with the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society and the Polish Association of Comparative Literature. Since 2016, he has been the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal "Irydion" published by the Institute of Polish Philology.

Research areas

His research involves the intersection of literary studies and comparative cultural studies. The first area of research is medievalism, in which the threads of medieval and contemporary culture intertwine. The analysis of contemporary phenomena includes both cultural mechanisms and the space of public discourse: media, audiovisual, in which references to medieval culture appear. The second research area is related to anthropology and contemporary culture studied from the perspective of Christianity as a cultural paradigm of Europe and its crisis in the era of secularism. He addresses issues related to the kerygmatic nature of cultural messages (film, media, advertising) as part of broadly understood post-secular research. The third area of research is related to the language of contemporary culture, which operates with an audiovisual code. The anthropological orientation in the study of contemporary culture has opened up the possibility of analysing new media. Of particular importance for the didactic sphere seems to be the creation of a project of the series "Audiovisual Aspects of Culture in Postmodernity", which is being developed at the Department of Literary Theory, covering the issues of anthropology, semiotics and sociology of cultural phenomena, especially those related to the media. As part of this area of research, he is carrying out the project Cultural History of Sounds, the aim of which is to situate sound as an audio phenomenon related to audiovisual experience in the cultural code that is used in a given social and moral reality. The result of the project is a series of publications initiated at the Laboratory of Comparative Cultural Studies entitled "Od-głosy kultury" (Voices of Culture), consisting of cultural analyses of individual sound gestures. Prof. Regiewicz's most important works include the following monographs: Cinema and Culture in the Light of Contemporary Anthropology. An Attempt at Kerygmatic Interpretation, Lublin 2011; Catechesis in images. Kerygmatic Interpretation of Film, Kraków 2012; Medievalism in the Face of Audiovisual Phenomena and New Media, Warsaw 2014; Beyond the horizon. Essays on the Art of Reading (Exercises in the Search for Meaning), Kraków 2015; Kerygmatic Figures of Interpretation, Kraków 2016; Between crimes. Comparative Literature on the Trail of Crime Fiction, Gdańsk 2017; co-authored monographs: B. Bodzioch-Bryła, L. Dorak-Wojakowska, M. Kaczmarczyk, A. Regiewicz, Flows, prostheses, extensions... Transformations of Polish Culture under the Influence of New Media after 1989, Kraków 2015 and 6 volumes created as part of the series Audiovisual Aspects of Culture in Postmodernity: Pageantry and Audiovisual in the Age of Postmodernity; Music in postmodern times; Literature – New Media. Homo irretitus in the literary culture of the 20th and 21st centuries; The political nature of the media; Education in the Time of Digital Plague; Religiosity of new media. In addition, Prof. Regiewicz publishes in the following journals: "Second Texts", "Literary Diary", "Literary Movement", "LUD", "Present-Man-Education", "Collectanea Theologica" and many others awarded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: "Cultural Studies Review", "Comparative Yearbook", "Popular Culture", "Anthropos" and others.