Tomasz Ryrych

Participant of the UP Doctoral School in the discipline of literary studies from the year 2020/2021 and research and teaching assistant in the Department of Media and Cultural Research of the UP Institute of Polish Philology. In his doctoral dissertation, he reflects on the presence of Habsburg and Galician myths in contemporary Polish prose. The topic of research, however, continues to expand beyond the confines of the discipline, entering the field of history, cultural studies and sociology, as well as beyond the geographical area of Poland to include all of Europe of the Habsburg cultural circle.

Other research interests include the philosophical contexts of literature, especially in the fields of phenomenology, hermeneutics and psychoanalysis; the relationship between the sciences and the humanities; and issues in the field of new media culture and new technologies, also from a psychological perspective. His research into the (micro)history and sociology of German settlement in Galicia (the so-called Josephine colonisation) follows a separate course.

His hobbies include non-commercial tourism, bibliophilia, historical investigations, and power sports.