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Professor Tadeusz Rachwał is an English philologist and culture and literature researcher. His professional interests focus on the function of literature in culture, contemporary critical theory, and cultural studies, in particular the concept of uncertainty in contemporary culture. In his work, he favors an interdisciplinary approach, bridging philosophy and literature.

He is an acclaimed author of numerous books and articles, such as: Labours of the Mind. Labour In the Culture of Production (2001), Rubbish Waste and Litter Culture and Its Refuse/Als (2008). He also co-authored the following publicaitons: S/HE... Embracing/Wrestling Genders. Cultural spaces for a Re-Definition of the Political (2005), Spoiling Cannibal's Fun? Cannibalism and Cannibalization in Culture and Elsewhere (2006), and (Nad)użycia ciała w kulturze [(Over)Use of the body in culture] (2012).

At SWPS University, he teaches British and American culture as well as literary and cultural theory.