Piotr Śniedziewski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romanticism of the Polish Studies Institute at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He has authored Mallarmé – Norwid. Le silence et la modernité poétique en France et en Pologne, published in Poland (2008) and France (2009), Melancholijne spojrzenie (2011) and Elegijna świadomość romantyków (2015). He is Editor-in-Chief of «Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka».

• Melancholia – 19th-century art and literature – Images and modes of behaviour – Rousseau – Chateaubriand – Senancour – Amiel – Macpherson – Turner – Mallarmé – Madame de Staël – Delacroix – Flaubert – Baudelaire – Balzac – Hasenclever