PhD, teaches cultural and literary studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. She is the author of On Alterity: A Study of Monstrosity and Otherness (2008, Toruń), editor of The Gothic: Studies in History, Identity and Space (2012, Oxford), and co-editor of a number of volumes, including Corporeal Inscriptions: Representations of the Body in Cultural and Literary Texts and Practices (2005, Toruń), Litteraria Copernicana: Cyborg (2011, Toruń), and Ex-changes: Comparative Studies in British and American cultures (2012, Newcastle).