Paulina Grzęda is Assistant Professor at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. She researches alternative perceptions of time in postcolonial cultures (with a special focus on Africa), historiography, cultural perceptions of otherness, representations of trauma in film and literature, as well as links between literature and psychotherapy. She is also a certified coach and an inquisitive traveller.

• The Persistence of History and South African LiteratureAlterity, Time and De-temporalization of DifferenceMagical Realism and Temporalities of Post-apartheidTowards the Ethics of Alter(nat)ing Temporalities of Post-apartheid:Alterity and Time in Fiction by Zakes Mda and J.M. CoetzeeTrauma, Alterity and Time in South African Autobiographical WritingTrilogy of Fictionalized Memoirs by J.M. CoetzeeMemoirs by André Brink and Zakes Mda