Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska graduated from the Institute of Art, Music Department at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin; the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, and from the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. She earned her Ph.D. degree from the Modern Languages Department, University of Warsaw. She teaches at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw.

• The Spiritual Dimension of Emergent Blues – Visions of the Apocalypse and Cataclysmic Events in Religious Disaster Songs and the Blues – The Approaching Apocalypse: The Last Judgement and the Book of Revelation in Spirituals and Blues Recorded by Blues Musicians – Images of Death and Heaven in Spirituals and Blues Recorded by Blues Musicians