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"Lux et Silesia: Silesian Identity in the Art of Ireneusz Walczak" 

Ewa Wylężek is a lecturer at Institute of Literary Studies in the Faculty of Humanities. She studied English Philology with major in Culture and Literature of English-Speaking Countries at University of Silesia as well as at Rovira i Virgili University in Catalonia, Spain.

Her main academic interests are carnival, modernism, art history, and movie studies. What is more, as she was born and raised in Silesia, many of her articles are dedicated to this region, trying to promote her homeland.

In 2019 she was a guest lecturer at University of Eastern Finland. Currently, she teaches Introduction to American Film, Art History and Creative Writing, as well as Writing for the Media. She has recently published her first book titled Tropes of Tauromachy: Representations of Bullfighting in Selected Texts of Anglophone Literature.

She is also a certified brewer (postgraduate course at University of Agriculture, Cracow).

Silesia is a place in southern Poland located in the historic region known as the Upper Silesia (in Polish: Górny Śląsk) that was once one of the world’s greatest producers of coal. This peculiar position of Silesian region, on the one hand, has undoubtedly enriched its inha