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A graduate in Polish studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, a cultural studies scholar and a literary theorist, he has been the Director of the Institute of Culture Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University since 2020. He has given guest lectures at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018), Guangxi Normal University, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Tianjin Normal University (2016). He has participated in national and international research projects: Towards a Global History of Music, Reggae Research Network, Sound System Outernational, and Social Circulation of Academic Knowledge. He was a member of the Polish Committee of Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2020-2023) and co-founded the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (2018). He authored monographs such as Literatura i nierozum. Antropologia fantastyki grozy (Toruń 2009), Nasłuchanie hałasu. Audioantropologia między ekspresją a doświadczeniem (Toruń 2014), Wola nie-wiedzy. Horror postmodernistyczny czy groza późnej nowoczesności (Toruń 2020). Together with Katarzyna Marak and Miłosz Markocki, he co-authored the book Gameplay, Emotions and Narrative. Independent Games Experienced (Pittsburgh, 2019). He has made field recordings in Finland, France, Portugal, China, USA, Morocco and Jamaica. His research interests include cultural anthropology, sound studies, the works of Stanislaw Lem, sound poetry, experimental music, horror, science fiction and Afrofuturism.

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