Gerard Ronge

Caponeu Team Member

Gerard Ronge (PhD, b. 1994) is a literary scholar and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is assistant editor of the bilingual journal Forum of Poetics, and his research interests span literary theory, Marxist criticism, post-critique and popular-culture studies; his papers have appeared in Forum of Poetics, Studia Norwidiana and Literatura i Kultura Popularna.

Within CAPONEU he works in the work package “Political Novel in Europe Between Democracy and Authoritarianism.” He coordinates the Poznań strand on the administrative side, prepares scholarly publications and text portraits, and presents project results at international conferences and workshops.

Book author

• Śmierć Don Kichota. O nowości w kulturze i literaturze ponowoczesnej (Death of Don Quixote: On Novelty in Postmodern Culture and Literature) — Universitas, 2023
• Powieści Ignacego Karpowicza jako laboratorium narracji: od Niehalo do Miłości (The Novels of Ignacy Karpowicz as a Narrative Laboratory: from ‘Niehalo’ to ‘Miłość’) — Fundacja „dzień dobry! – Kolektyw Kultury”, 2020

Selected English-language articles

• “Poetics in Use.” Forum of Poetics 35 (2024): 130-135.
• “Towards Expanding a Set of Functions: How to Read Janusz Sławiński’s ‘O opisie.’” Forum of Poetics 19 (2020): 88-101.
• “‘Eagle? It Is Not Half-Turtle, Half-Thunder’: Romantic Irony in Vade-mecum.” Studia Norwidiana 37 (2019): 135-146.
• “Realism Lives On: On Roger Garaudy’s D’un Réalisme Sans Rivages.” Forum of Poetics 15-16 (2019): 94-109.
• “Mood.” Forum of Poetics 3 (2016): 78-83.

Recent conference papers (last five years)

• “Tadeusz Peiper and Rita Felski: Polish Contributions to the Debate about Post-Critique,” Rethinking the Political, University of Brighton, UK, 9-11 Sept 2024.
• “Identity Crypt and Migration: Two Case Studies from Contemporary Slavic Prose,” with Ewa Szperlik, Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile workshop, AMU Poznań, 23-24 May 2024.

Memberships and honours

• START Scholarship, Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), 2025 
• Rector’s Scholarship for the Best Doctoral Students, 2019/2020 & 2020/2021.
• “Diamond Grant” of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
• Second Prize, Prof. Czesław Zgorzelski competition for the best Polish-Philology MA thesis (2019).
• Multiple Ministerial Scholarships for Outstanding Academic Achievement (2015-2018).

Affiliation

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology

Contact
e-mail: gerron@amu.edu.pl
phone: +48 888 999 070
Address: ul. Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań, Poland