Henryk Kardela
ORCID iD Independent scholar; Professor Emeritus, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a, 20-031 Lublin
Poland

Henryk Kardela is Professor of Linguistics. His areas of interest are syntax, semantics, lexicology, cognitive poetics and philosophy of language. He is the author of A Grammar of English and Polish Reflexives (1985), WH Movement in English and Polish: Theoretical Implications (1986), Dimensions and Parameters in Grammar: Studies on A/D Asymmetries and Subjectivity Relations in Polish (2000) and of numerous articles on morphological, syntactic and semantic phenomena in English and Polish analyzed in the spirit of Ronald Langacker’s theory of Cognitive Grammar.

Anna Kędra-Kardela
ORCID iD Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Department of English and American Studies, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a, 20-031 Lublin
Poland

Anna Kędra-Kardela  is Associate Professor of British Literature in the Department of English and American Studies at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin. Her research interests include Gothic fiction, cognitive poetics, narratology and the Anglo-Irish short story. She is the author of two monographs: The Ascent of the Soul: A Study in the Poetic Persona of Henry Vaughan’s “Silex Scintillans” (1992) and Reading as Interpretation: Towards a Narrative Theory of Fictional World Construction (2010). She co-edited multi-author books: Perspectives on Literature and Culture (2004), The Craft of Interpretation: The English Canon (2007), Expanding the Gothic Canon: Studies in Literature, Film and New Media (2014), Visions and Revisions: Studies in Literature and Culture (2015) and Studies in English Literature and Culture: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Grażyna Bystydzieńska  (2017).

Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk
ORCID iD Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Department of English and American Studies, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a, 20-031 Lublin
Poland

Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk is Associate Professor of British Literature in the Department of English and American Studies at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin. His research interests include the supernatural in literature, Gothic fiction, cognitive poetics, as well as utopia/dystopia in literature and film. He is the author of two book-length studies: The Voice of God, the Voice of Man: Religious Discourse in Late Medieval English Drama (2007) and Forms and Shadows: A Cognitive-Poetic Reading of Charles Williams’s Fiction (2017). He co-edited three books:  The Lives of Texts: Exploring the Metaphor (2012), Expanding the Gothic Canon: Studies in Literature, Film and New Media (2014), and Opalescent Worlds: Studies in Utopia. Festschrift in Honour of Artur Blaim (2021).