Dorota Sośnicka, born in 1964, Dr. habil., Associate professor of German-language literary studies at the Institute for Literature and New Media in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Szczecin.

Studied German language and literature and earned her Ph.D. in 1998 from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Wie handgewobene Teppiche: Die Prosawerke Gerhard Meiers, Bern [et al.]: Lang, 1999; awarded the Prize of the Polish Minister of Higher Education and Science); in 2009, she completed her habilitation at the University of Łódź with the dissertation Den Rhythmus der Zeit einfangen: Erzählexperimente in der Deutschschweizer Gegenwartsliteratur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Werke von Otto F. Walter, Gerold Späth und Zsuzsanna Gahse  (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008). Recipient of DAAD and Humboldt fellowships, as well as fellowships from the Swiss Arts Council “Pro Helvetia” and the Cultural Foundation of the Canton of Thurgau; Member of, among others, the International Alfred Döblin Society (IADG), the Society for the Study of German-Swiss Literature (G.E.D.L.), the International Association for German Studies, and the Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum.

Numerous publications on narrative theory and contemporary German-language literature, particularly the literature of German-speaking Switzerland, including as (co-)editor of the anthologies: Ein neuer Aufbruch? 1991–2011: Literature of German-speaking Switzerland after the 700th Anniversary (with M. Pender, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012), Fabulierwelten: Zum (Auto)Biographischen in der Literatur der deutschen Schweiz. Festschrift für Beatrice Sandberg zum 75. Geburtstag (with I. Hernández, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017), „Vorn die Ostsee, hinten die Friedrichstraße“: Tucholsky, die Ostsee und Polen / „Z przodu Bałtyk, z tyłu Friedrichstraße”: Tucholsky, Bałtyk i Polska (with I. King, B. Wójcik, on behalf of the Kurt Tucholsky Society; Leipzig, Weissenfels: Verlag Ille & Riemer, 2017); Tabuzonen und Tabubrüche in der Deutschschweizer Literatur (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2020).