Contents
Inverting Dickens: Biofiction, Illegibility, and the Author as Suspect in Dan Simmons’s Drood
Abdelrahman Morshed, University of Pecs, Hungary
Against the Machine: An Ecofeminist Reading of E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops
Corina Mitrulescu, Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces Academy, Sibiu, Romania
Audio Monsters: Cosmic Horror and Inhuman Beings in The Magnus Archives
Magdalena Szukalska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Translating Vita Sackville-West’s Seducers in Ecuador into Polish: Cultural and Linguistic Challenges
Dagmara Kottke, University of Siedlce, Poland
Relationality and Posthuman Motoring in Human-generated and Non-human EV Discourse in Australia
Maciej Adamski, Independent scholar, Poland
Common Issues of Using English as a Lingua Franca
Maksym Cheremisin, Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland
The 33rd Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE) / Crossroads Conference, Białystok, 4–6 June 2025
Review: Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck (eds.), 2023. The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction
Vladimíra Fonfárová, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic
Review: James F. English and Heather Love (eds.), 2023. Literary Studies and Human Flourishing
Animesh Kumar University of Delhi, Delhi Dr Ujjwal Jana University of Delhi, Delhi
Review: Jens Martin Gurr, 2024. Understanding Public Debates: What Literary Studies Can Do
Animesh Kumar University of Delhi, India, Ujjwal Jana University of Delhi, India
Review: Krzysztof Fordoński, 2025. E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations
Anna Kwiatkowska, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland