Is profesor emeritus at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He is the author of Isolation and Ethos: A Study of Joseph Conrad (1992) and editor of Various Dimensions of the Other in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction (2020), Some Intertextual Chords of Joseph Conrad’s Literary Art (2019), Joseph Conrad’s Authorial Self. Polish and Other (2018), among others, and the editor of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives.