Dr. Tomasz Dymowski

Email:

t.dymowski@uw.edu.pl

Position held:

Assistant, second and third-year evening Japanese studies tutor

Research field:

modern and contemporary Japanese literature

Academic career:

– 2026 PhD, Doctoral School in the Humanities, University of Warsaw, doctoral dissertation titled: “Deconstruction of the myths of postmodern Japanese society in the works of Shōno Yoriko from the 1990s.”

– 2021 MA, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Warsaw, master’s thesis titled: “Symbolism in the poetry of Hagiwara Sakutarō on the example of poetry collections ‘Howling at the Moon’ and ‘The Blue Cat’”


Scholarships:

– 2023-2025 MEXT scholarship at the University of Tokyo

– 2019-2020 the Nippo-Salon Foundation scholarship, University of Kobe


Main publications:

Articles in scientific journals:

The Mother Monster. Feminine monstrosity in the novel The Growth of My Mother (Haha no hattatsu) by Yoriko Shōno, “Teksty Drugie” 2024/4, p. 300–314, https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/279515/edition/242659/content, (article in Polish), DOI: 10.18318/td.2024.4.16

Kafkaesque Elements in the Selected Prose of Shōno Yoriko, “Analecta Nipponica” 2022/12, p. 27–41

Chapters in monographs:

– „The Deconstruction of Japanese Postmodern Society Myths in Shōno Yoriko’s works from the 1990s,” in: The Budapest Monographs in East Asian Studies (ed. Takó Ferenc), Budapest 2023, p. 181–194, https://edit.elte.hu/xmlui/handle/10831/88901,
DOI: 10.21862/BMEAS.11.12