Agnieszka Łowczanin is an associate professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of Łódź, Poland, where she teaches courses in British literature, culture and history. She specialises in eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries fiction, focusing especially on the politics, poetics and paradoxes of the Gothic. Her recent academic interests centre on cross-cultural exchanges and forms of the Gothic, and on the intersections of the Gothic, feminism and eco-criticism.

Supervisor of BA and MA theses in British literature and culture which explore the manifestations and transformations of Gothicism from postcolonial, feminist and ecocritical perspectives.

She is the author of a monograph devoted to the study of the oeuvre of Anna Mostowska, née Radziwiłł, the first female author of ghost stories in Polish, which examines ealry cultural and literary manifestations of the Gothic on the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, A Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic. Anna Mostowska Reads Ann Radcliffe (2018). She co-edited a monograph devoted to the study of European Gothic, Gothic Peregrinations (Routledge, 2019) with Katarzyna Małecka, and All that Gothic (Peter Lang, 2014) with Dorota Wiśniewska.