Polish philologist, PhD in Humanities, Assistant Professor at the Department of Late 19th Century Literature, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, literary historian, editor of old texts of the 18th and 19th centuries (she has participated in the following projects: Literatura konfederacji barskiej [Literature of the Bar Confederation] in 2005-2009, Edycja krytyczna pism wszystkich Bolesława Prusa [Critical Edition of the writings of Bolesław Prus] in 2012-2017 – „Listy zebrane” Elizy Orzeszkowej. Edycja krytyczna [“Collected Works” (part I) and “Collected Letters” by Eliza Orzeszkowa. Critical Edition] – since 2020). Author and co-author of the source texts: critical edition of the texts of Bolesław Prus Humoreski, nowele, opowiadania Tom V: 1878-1879 [Humorous sketches, novellas, short stories Volume V: 1878-1879] (2016) and the novel Przemiany [Transformations] (2019). Author of the books: Muza z warząchwią. Uwagi o literaturze i kulinariach [The Muse with the ladle. Notes on literature and cooking] (2004), Skandal, gafa, prowokacja. Obraz normy obyczajowej i jej naruszania w polskiej powieści drugiej połowy XIX wieku [Scandal, blunder, provocation. The image of the moral norm and its violation in the Polish novel of the second half of the 19th century] (2014), articles in collective works, and articles and reviews in journals: „Napis” [“Inscription”], „Teksty Drugie”, „Pamiętnik Literacki”, „Prace Polonistyczne”, „Przegląd Humanistyczny”, „LiteRacje”, „Wiek Oświecenia”, „Wiek XIX”, „Sztuka Edycji”. (To see more: https://ibl.waw.pl/pl/o-instytucie/pracownicy/babel-agnieszka).
Co-editor of the academic yearbook „Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej” [“Inscription. Periodical on Occasional and Applied Literature”] (from 2017 editorial secretary of the journal).
Scientific interests: fiction and applied literature, anthropology of literature, biography and intimistics, history of customs, and scientific editing.
Contact: agnieszka.babel@ibl.waw.pl
