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Monika Janusz-Lorkowska

POSITION:
assistant professor
Department of Information, Library and Book Science, Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Philology

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Job description

assistant professor

Department of Information, Library and Book Science

Research and teaching staff member at the University of Lodz, whose responsibilities include delivering academic teaching, participating in research activities, and carrying out organisational duties for the department.


Academic Profile:

She holds degrees in Art History and Media Studies. In 2024, she was awarded a PhD in Social Sciences (Communication and Media Studies) from the University of Warsaw for her dissertation Transgression of the Book Form.

Her research and publications focus on issues situated at the intersection of communication studies, visual culture, and book studies. She is the author of articles and scholarly studies published in peer-reviewed journals and academic monographs recognised in official Polish evaluation lists for the social sciences and humanities. She has also presented her research at national and international academic conferences in Poland, as well as in Berlin, Dublin, Lviv, Tallinn, Vienna, and Zadar.

She is a member of the Polish Communication Association. Since October 2024, she has been affiliated with the University of Lodz as a research and teaching staff member in the Department of Information and Book Studies.


Research Interests:

  • visual communication and visual rhetoric

  • visual literacy and media education

  • hybrid books and hybrid publishing forms

  • information user behaviour (UX in relation to UI)

  • tools and strategies for promoting reading and reading culture

    • Bio

    Graduate of Art History and Media Studies. She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences, in the discipline of Communication and Media Studies, in 2024 from the University of Warsaw, on the basis of the dissertation Transgression of the Book Form.

    She is the author of articles and studies published in journals and monographs listed in the official Polish evaluation lists for the social sciences and the humanities, as well as papers presented at national and international academic conferences in Poland, Berlin, Dublin, Lviv, Tallinn, Vienna, and Zadar.

    She is a member of the Polish Communication Association. Since October 2024, she has been employed at the University of Lodz as a research and teaching staff member in the Department of Information and Book Studies.

    Interests


  • visual communication / visual rhetoric

  • visual literacy and media education

  • hybrid books

  • information user behaviour (UX in the context of UI)

  • tools for effective promotion of reading and reading culture

    • Achievements

    She was awarded the Rector’s Scholarship of the University of Warsaw for the top doctoral student in the cohort annually between 2018 and 2022. In 2021, she completed an international research internship at Children’s Books Ireland in Dublin — an organisation collaborating on projects with, among others, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, and the University of Limerick. The internship was awarded through a University-wide competition (University of Warsaw ZIP Scholarship – International Mobility for Doctoral Students), available to selected laureates and at that time funded by the European Union’s Knowledge Education Development Programme (POWER).

    Office hours

    assistant professor

    Department of Information, Library and Book Science

    CYCLICAL DUTY

    THURSDAY

    10:30 - 11:30

    Please email me at least one day in advance of the meeting.

     

    Pomorska 171/173 room: 2.11 90-236 Łódź

    Contact

    assistant professor

    Department of Information, Library and Book Science

    phone: 42-635-69-12

    e-mail: monika.lorkowska@uni.lodz.pl

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    Pomorska 171/173 , 90-236 Łódź, room: 2.11

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