Katarzyna Bazarnik

Katarzyna Bazarnik (born 1970) is a Polish historian of English literature, a translator, a university lecturer, and the co-creator of the theory of liberature, which closely relates the text and the material form of a publication.

Bazarnik completed an MA at the Institute of English Philology (IFA), Jagiellonian University, Kraków and in 2007 she obtained a PhD from the same university, with a thesis entitled Some Aspects of Spatiality of the Literary Work as Exemplified by James Joyce's Giacomo Joyce, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (with a reference to L. Sterne, Mallarmé, B. S. Johnson and R.

[1][2] Bazarnik obtained a habilitation degree from the Jagiellonian University in 2017 with a thesis entitled Liberature: A Book-bound Genre.

She initiated and then organized six editions of the Bloomsday in Kraków conference (1997–2008), the title being a reference to Leopald Bloom, a character in Joyce's Ulysses.

She is a member of the International James Joyce Foundation, the Polish Aesthetic Society, and the European Association of Modernist Studies.