The most popular paper during the first half of 2026 published by our journal is "Posthuman Love in Her and Ex Machina" by Maciej Piaskowski from the University of Łódź. It has already been read 174 times. Congratulations! pjes.edu.pl/articles/pos... #posthumanism

It is a surprise but "Cathy Ames as a Femme Fatale in East of Eden: Steinbeck and Kazan" by Tomasz Śledź was also our most popular paper in June - perhaps you should check it out? pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

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Our most popular paper in May - Cathy Ames as a Femme Fatale in East of Eden: Steinbeck and Kazan by Tomasz Śledź! pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations is now available for free as PDF or EPUB format! www.wuw.pl/product-pol-... #emforster #youneedit #literature

Michał Rutkowski from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostella published in our issue 11.2/2025 paper "The Role of Register-Specific Semantic Prosody in ESL Advanced Instruction: “Environmental” Discourse in Academic and Journalism Genres of British English". pjes.edu.pl/articles/the...

Perhaps first #modwrite and then beautiful Olsztyn in the autumn? #cfp #wells #hgwells

Olsztyn invites you all to a conference celebrating H. G. Wells. Hurry up as there is little time left! #cfp #hgwells

University of Warsaw invites translation scholars to TRANSLATON is a series of conferences dedicated to translation studies, covering both theoretical and practical aspects. All the details in #cfp translatoryka.iksi.uw.edu.pl/en/translato...

One third of 2026 has passed so it is time for some statistics. Our most popular paper of 2026 so far is "Posthuman Love in Her and Ex Machina" by Maciej Piaskowski from the University of Łódź. It has been read by 128 people. Have YOU read it? pjes.edu.pl/articles/pos... #posthumanism

Dominika Lipszyc from the University of Warsaw published in our issue 11.2/2025 her paper "Reception of American Literature in Fascist Italy on the Example of John Steinbeck’s Novels". pjes.edu.pl/articles/rec...

As usual we publish book reviews as preprints. Anna Kwiatkowska, from the University of Warmia and Mazury, reviewed for us the book "E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations" by Krzysztof Fordoński pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

Konstancja Missa from the University of Wrocław published in our issue 11.2/2025 her paper "The Serious and The Frivolous: Parodic and Thematic Dualities of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost" which examines the story as a commentary on Anglo-American cultural tensions. pjes.edu.pl/articles/ser...

Zuzanna Gołofit from the University of Wroclaw published paper "Hozier’s “Eat Your Young” as a Modern-Day Response to Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”. The paper discusses how the song reveals attitudes of the ruling class analogous to those of 18th century Ireland. pjes.edu.pl/articles/hoz...

Katarzyna Nowak from the University of Łódź published in our issue 11.2/2025 her paper "Affect, Hope and Collective Consciousness as acts of radical rebellion in Wachowski’s Sense8". This article examines how ideas from affect theory can be found in Sense8. pjes.edu.pl/articles/aff...

Our mother organisation the ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social meets in Santiago de Compostella in late August. You can get all the information about the conference from the website www.esse2026.com/en/pagina.ph...

Any Shakespeare scholars interested in a scholarship for the summer? #shakespeare #scholarship #grant

Bartosz Jastrzębski from the Nicolaus Copernicus University, published in our 11.2 issue article "Poland Cannibalistic Capitalism: Societal Collapse in Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh". The article examines the novel as a dystopian allegory. pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #posthumanism

Maciej Piaskowski from the University of Łódź published in issue 11.2/2025 paper about Posthuman Love in Her and Ex Machina. This article explores how contemporary cinema, such the movies reimagine love and intimacy within the framework of posthuman theory. pjes.edu.pl/articles/pos... #posthumanism

Karolina Sawa from the University of Łódź published in our issue 11.2/2025 paper "Fragmented Minds: SOMA and the Reconstruction of Identity". The article examines how the video game SOMA serves as a critical examination of posthuman subjectivity in a transhuman setting. pjes.edu.pl/articles/fra...

More from our 11.2/2025 issue! Kricie Ann Jonsson from the Linnaeus University Vaxjo, Sweden wrote a paper about Beastly Humans, Humane Beasts: The Blurring of Human-Animal Boundaries in Fairy Tale Retellings for Adults pjes.edu.pl/articles/bea...

We continue the presentation of our latest issue 11.2/2025with the paper Cartographies: Relational Ecologies and Decolonial Belonging in the Works of Olga Tokarczuk and Amitav Ghosh written by Samiul Azim, Akidul Hoque, Farida Parvin. pjes.edu.pl/articles/car...

The PASE conference in Rzeszów includes a special panel on adaptations - www.ur.edu.pl/pl/konferenc... - and the PJES will publish papers based on the presentations. It is the very last moment to submit your proposals!

The time has come to introduce our latest issue 11.2/2025 dedicated to #posthumanism and #relationality - somewhat conventionally, we start with the introduction by the editor of the issue Prof. Katarzyna Ostalska from the University of Łódź pjes.edu.pl/articles/rel...

The journal Anglica Wratislaviensia seeks submissions to their new issue: The Political Dimension of the Western: Power and Legitimacy on the Frontier. Call for papers at czasopisma.uwr.edu.pl/awr/announce...

We haven't been very active online recently but our readers can find us anyway. 2400 readers have already accessed the latest issue dedicated to critical posthumanism and relationality edited by Prof. Katarzyna Ostalska from the University of Łódź. Have you? pjes.edu.pl/issues/11-2-...

One of our aims is the promotion of English Studies from Poland. You can find out what Poland has to offer in this respect from Wydawnictwa UW - University of Warsaw Presses as they have quite an impressive offer, partly available in Open Access. Check them out! www.wuw.pl/pol_m_Nauki-...

Calling all specialists in contemporary English fiction - call for papers for our issue 13.2/2027 - check the details and deadlines at pjes.edu.pl/issues/13-2-...

Polish Journal of English Studies is proud to be listed in MLA International Bibliography - @modernlanguage.bsky.social - Have you submitted all your publications? www.mla.org/Publications...

Cracow invites Joyce scholars in June 2026 to talk about doubling/doubles! conference.pais.edu.pl #jamesjoyce

You can still submit your proposals - conference dedicated to Elizabeth von Arnim. Extended deadline - February 15th. vonarnim2026.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/c... #callforpapers #vonarnim

Our second most popular paper in 2025 was "Cathy Ames as a Femme Fatale in East of Eden: Steinbeck and Kazan" written by Tomasz Śledź from the Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Have you read it already? pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

New book by our editor-in-chief @forster1970.bsky.social is now available for download Free Open Access!

Our most popular paper in 2025 is "The Duality of Clowns in W. B. Yeats’s “The Mask” – Who is the ‘I’?" with 68 downloads. Have you read it? pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

New book written by our editor-in-chief!

Call for Papers. International Conference: Elizabeth von Arnim and Pomerania. Host and dates: Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, Poland. 6-7 June 2026. Deadline for submissions: 12 January 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

Warsaw invites you to the 14th Warsaw Literary Meeting - Modes of Engagement: Adapting (Neo-)Victorians - check out the details! qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

University of Rzeszów invites you to PASE 2026 CONFERENCE - Temporal Matters: Time in Narrative and Linguistic Structures - which will be held on June 24-26, 2026 in Rzeszów. www.ur.edu.pl/pl/konferenc...

Our publisher, the Polish Association for the Study of English, organises academic conferences. The 32nd Annual Conference of the PASE “Interspecies Friendships and Non-human Companionships” took place in Warsaw in June 2024. You can read the report in issue 11.1/2025. pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

Breaking news! Our publisher the Polish Association for the Study of English signed an agreement with Crossref @crossref.bsky.social so starting with 2025 all our articles will have DOI number!

Ewa Rajewska from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, reviewed for our issue 11.1/2025 Krzysztof Puławski's book Stworzone w przekładzie. Opowieść o tłumaczeniu poezji [Created in Translation. A Story About Translating Poetry] published by the Białystok University Press pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

Krzysztof Fordoński @forster1970.bsky.social from the University of Warsaw reviewed for our issue 11.1/2025 the collection of literary essays Frotaż, the latest book by Jerzy Jarniewicz. pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

Bożena Kucała from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Kraków published in our issue 11.1/2025 her review of the book Of Spaces and Ideas: The Novels of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer by Petr Chalupský and Tereza Topolovská, published by the Karolinum Press in 2024. pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

We are updating our website - please, take a look at the new landing pages for each article! pjes.edu.pl/issues/11-1-...

Monika Konert-Panek from the University of Warsaw reviewed for our issue 11.1/2025 the book New Englishes, New Methods edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal, published in 2023 by John Benjamins @johnbenjamins.bsky.social pjes.edu.pl/articles/11-...

We would like to kindly inform you that Polish Journal of English Studies passed the evaluation process positively and is indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database for 2024. The value of its parametric strength (ICV indicator) was calculated. ICV 2024 = 92.72

In his paper "The Construction of Authority in the Old English Judith" published in our issue 11.1/2025 Jacek Olesiejko from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań offers a new reading of the Old English poem in the context of the reign of king Aethelred the Unready. pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

Barbara Meilak from the Jagiellonian University @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social published in our latest issue 11.1/2025 her paper about The Myth of the American Dream in Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue, the Cameroonian-American novelist pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #imbolombue

Paula Sadkowska from the Catholic University of Lublin published in our issue 11.1/2025 her paper “My, you have a way of making me do things I don’t normally do.” The examination of the narrative (Un)Reliability of Joe Goldberg from You by Caroline Kepnes pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #carolinekepnes

Samira Sasani from Shiraz University takes a closer look at Myth-Making Modern Cities, comparing Paris and London in Jacques Tati’s Playtime and Penelope Lively’s City of the Mind in the 11.1/2025 issue of the PJES. pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u...