Prof. (Associate), German philologist, university lecturer; studied German Philology at the Jagiellonian University, University of Leipzig and University of Gdańsk, Ph.D-student at the University of Gdansk and the Ruhr-University of Bochum: Ph.D thesis (2008): The Prussian Ethos and Culture of Memory. Autobiographical Texts of Prussian Nobility from Pomerania and East Prussia after 1945 (published as Pamięć dla przyszłości […], Wrocław: ATUT 2009; =Zrozumieć Niemcy). 2008-2021 Adiunkt [Assistant Professor] at the Institute for German Philology at the University of Gdańsk, 2018-2019 visiting professor at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany).
Research interests: borderland studies, multicultural literature, autobiographical narrations (especially of authors of Jewish background and nobility), literature from German-Polish borderland(s), collective memory in borderland after 1989, identity and border issues, literary imagology.
contact: miloslawa.borzyszkowska@ug.gda.pl