Assistant Professor at the Department of English and American Studies of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland, and an international team member of the Czech Science Foundation Project (GAČR) “British and American Crime Fiction from the Perspective of Non-Places” at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Pardubice.
Education:
She holds Master’s degrees in Economics and in English Literature. She received her doctorate from MCSU Lublin, with a Ph.D. thesis on the academic mystery novel.
Research interests:
academic fiction, academic mysteries, classical detective novel, fictional reworkings of Greek mythology
Selected publications:
Books:
Perkowska-Gawlik E. The Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel: A Study in Genre. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021.
Book chapters:
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta.“Der akademische Mystery-Roman: Eine Mischung der Genres.” In Der Campusroman: Texte – Theorien – Traditionen , edited by Helmut Grugger and Stefan Neuhaus, 157–68. Springer International Publishing, 2025.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “Carolyn Heilbrun [Amanda Cross]: Kate Fansler Serie (1964–2002).” In Der Campusroman: Texte – Theorien – Traditionen, edited by Helmut Grugger and Stefan Neuhaus, 543–47. Springer International Publishing. 2025.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “Joanne Dobson: The Professor Karen Pelletier academic mystery series (1997–2009).” In Der Campusroman: Texte – Theorien – Traditionen, edited by Helmut Grugger and Stefan Neuhaus, 607–11. Springer International Publishing, 2025.
Perkowska-Gawlik Elżbieta. “Nostalgia for the Belief in a Female-Friendly Academic World to Come.” In East-West Cultural Passage, Campus Nostalgia, edited by Corina Selejan and Merritt Moseley. 175-189. Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Open Access with DeGruyter), 2022.
Perkowska-Gawlik Elżbieta. “Murderous Academics: Territoriality in Cynthia Kuhn’s Academic Mysteries,” In Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination, edited by Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck, 63-79. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2021.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “Victimization in Academic Mystery Fiction.” In Small World: Campus Fiction – Regional or Global?, edited by Dieter Fuchs & Wojciech Klepuszewski. 111-121. Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2019.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “A Criminal Heterotopia of University Libraries or the Doubling ‘Of Other Spaces’ in Academic Mystery Fiction.” In Crime Fiction – A Critical Casebook, edited by Stephen Butler and Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish. 277-288. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2018.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “The Multiple Identities of Norman N. Holland in Postmodern Mystery and Academia.” In Academia in Fact and Fiction, edited by Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim and Merritt Moseley. 105-113. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “The Taming of Dystopia in Progress: A Collage of Narrative Strategies in Barry Gardner’s Webcomic Hyperbolic Dystopia.” In (Im)perfection Subverted, Reloaded and Networked: Utopian Discourse across Media, edited by B. Klonowska, Z. Kolbuszewska, and G. Maziarczyk. 195-208. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “Character in the Academic Mystery: The Raven and the Nightingale by Joanne Dobson.” In Characters in Literary Fictions, edited by Jadwiga Węgrodzka. 184-197. Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang, 2015.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “The Quest For Identity In Academic Mystery Fiction.” In Crime Scenes: Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context, edited by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish and Urszula Elias. 53-64. Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang, 2014.
Articles:
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “The Academic Murder Mystery as a Popular Subgenre from the Polish Perspective.” World Literature Studies 17 (2025): 41–55.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “Geography of the Narrative Self in Stuart Turton’s the Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.” American and British Studies Annual 18 (2025): 125–40. https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2782.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “Between Pure Entertainment and Informative Guidance: The Heterotopia of Rehab Institutions in Elizabeth Zelvin’s Cozy Mystery Death Will Get You Sober.” Acta Humana 8 (2017): 195-206.
Perkowska-Gawlik, Elżbieta. “Investigating different aspects of solidarity: Brook Farm in Adele Fasick’s historical mystery A Death in Utopia.” Beyond Philology Quarterly 14, no. 4 (2017): 125-140.
Grants and awards:
“British and American Crime Fiction from the Perspective of Non-Places” Czech Science Foundation grant no. 25-16501S, team member.
Selected conference papers:
Bubíková, Šárka and Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik. “Transient Spaces, Permanent Stories: Non-Places in Nita Prose’s The Maid (2022) and Agatha Christie’s Hotel Mysteries.” Captivating Criminality 12: “Crime Fiction and the Global Challenges of the Twenty-First Century.” Melbourne, 25.-27.06.2025.
