Mateusz is a Professor of Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland. His field of research includes theory and practice of genetic criticism as well as the history of Polish modern literature. Founder and head of the Centre for Creativity Research (at the Jagiellonian University), member of the board of the international conference series “Genesis – City – Year”. In 2013 he was a fellow of Yale University and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (program for post-doctoral scholars). He is the author of several books and essays, devoted to creative processes, modern manuscripts, archives and 20th century Polish literature and the editor and textual scholar to the works of the eminent Polish poets and writers: Czesław Miłosz, Witold Gombrowicz and Zbigniew Herbert. Recently he has published: “Les memory studies et la critique génétique: une rencontre possible” (“Genesis” 59, 2024), “The Unfinished Text in the Thickening Description: From Genetic Criticism to Cultural Transfer Studies” (“Textual Cultures”, vol. 13, no 2, 2020).