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Katarzyna A. 惭补艂别肠办补 works at the Department of North American Literature and Culture, Lodz University. She is the author of numerous publications on death and grief in literature, including Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell (2008) and Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance (2013). She has been awarded three international scholarships to conduct her research on loss and bereavement: the interdisciplinary research grant by the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna to study the bibliotherapeutic aspects of literature in work with grieving children; the Fulbright Senior Award Scholarship for her project on the use of modern bereavement memoirs in grief therapy; and the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship to study the grief witnessing, bibliotherapeutic, and educational aspects of grief memoirs. She is currently working on her new project exploring the bibliotherapeutic application of grief narratives in the clinical setting and their use in the education of future helping professionals.

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Books:

1. Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance. Routledge, 2023.

2. Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell. Cambria Press, 2008

Chapters in Books of Collected Articles:

1. Katarzyna 惭补艂别肠办补 and Janie Taylor. 鈥淩esponse writing dialogues.鈥� Techniques of Grief Therapy:Bereavement and Beyond.Ed. Robert Neimeyer. Routledge, 2022. 309-314.

2. 鈥淪tranger than Fiction: Gothic Themes in Bereavement Memoirs of Spousal Loss.鈥� Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories. Ed. Agnieszka 艁owczanin and Katarzyna 惭补艂别肠办补. Routledge, 2019. 248-261.

3. 鈥淩emembering, Forgetting and Healing in Modern Bereavement Memoirs.鈥� Memory: Forgetting and Creating. Ed. Wojciech Owczarski, Zofia Ziemann and Amanda Chalupa. Gda艅sk UP, 2016. 234-243.

4. 鈥淭he W Word: Modern Ways of Grieving in The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and A Widow鈥檚 Story by Joyce Carol Oates.鈥� And Death Shall Have Dominion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying, Caregivers, Death, Mourning and the Bereaved. Ed. Katarzyna 惭补艂别肠办补 and Rossanna Gibbs. Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, 2015. 187-196. E-book.

5. 鈥溾�業t鈥檚 a Mr. Death or something. He has come about the reaping. I don鈥檛 think we need any at the moment鈥�: Death and the Denial of Death in the Works of Monty Python.鈥� Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Cultural Contexts in Monty Python. Ed. Tomasz Dobrogoszcz. Introduction by Terry Jones. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. 3-22.

6. 鈥溾�楾here Are Things Much Worse than Death鈥�: (Im)mortality and (Im)morality in the Harry Potter Series.鈥� (Non)omnis moriar: Cultural and Literary Discourses of Death and Immortality. Ed. Irmina Wawrzyczek and Aleksandra K臋dzierska. Maria Curie-Sk艂odowska UP, 2012. 241-247.

Articles in Journals:

1. 鈥淭he Pure Lover and The Mature Griever: The literary expression of grief in David Plante鈥檚 memoir and its cultural, educational, and therapeutic significance.鈥� Psychology & Sexuality. Vol. 13, 2022 - Issue 4; pp. 996-1009

2. 鈥溾�楬ave you heard about X?鈥�: (Mis)management of mortality in academia.鈥� Death Studies, vol. 46,

no. 7, 2022, pp.1678鈥�1688.

3. 惭补艂别肠办补, Katarzyna A., and Jamison S. Bottomley. 鈥淕rief Memoirs: The Familiarity of Helping

Professionals with the Genre and its Potential Incorporation into Grief Therapy.鈥� Death Studies, vol. 46, no. 4, 2020, pp. 842鈥�-850.

4. 鈥淭he Self Lost, the Self Adjusted: Forming a New Identity in Bereavement Memoirs by American Women.鈥� Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies, vol. 50, no. 2/3, 2015, pp. 155-174.

5. 鈥淚n Praise of Slacking: Richard Linklater鈥檚 Slacker and Kevin Smith鈥檚 Clerks as Hallmarks of 1990s American Independent Cinema Counterculture.鈥� Text Matters 5, 2015. pp. 189-204.

6. 鈥淎 Literary Medical History: Aging, Illness and Death in Philip Roth鈥檚 Everyman.鈥� Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny, vol. 59, no. 4, 2012, pp. 481-495.

7. 鈥溾�楾he Dude Abides鈥�: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way From a Box Office Bomb To Nation-Wide Fests.鈥� Text Matters 2, 2012, pp. 76-93.