About Us
Welcome to the website of the Department of Intermedial and Environmental Studies!
The Department was established on 24 February 2026 at the Faculty of Modern Languages of the University of Warsaw, following a positive opinion of the Faculty Council. Its creation responds to current research challenges in the contemporary humanities and results, among other things, from initiatives developed within the framework of the Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB) programme.
Profile
The Department focuses its activities on two main areas that define its research and teaching profile:
- Intermediality: Research concentrates on the relationships between literature, the visual arts, music, and digital media. Members of the Department analyse media as material and environmental cultural practices, as well as spaces in which narratives intersect and circulate across different representational orders.
- Environmental Humanities: The Department develops research on the relationships between culture, environment, and matter, situating itself within the field of contemporary environmental humanities and posthumanities. Particular emphasis is placed on analysing nature–culture entanglements, non-human agency, and on developing new methodologies for describing the world in both its historical and contemporary configurations. This research includes, among other areas, ecocriticism, studies of non-anthropocentric subjectivity, and reflections on the environmental conditions of cultural and media practices.
Collaboration and Development
The Department’s activities encompass not only research but also the development of high-ranking publishing platforms. It advances prestigious book series with De Gruyter Brill and Harrassowitz (also available in Open Access) and co-creates the international academic journal TRANSPOSITIONES.
The Department’s team consists of: Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, PhD, Assoc. Prof.; Piotr Kociumbas, PhD, Assoc. Prof.; and Paweł Piszczatowski, PhD, Assoc. Prof.
We warmly invite you to collaborate!