Liliana Sikorska, PhD in 1994, D. Litt, in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC, Fulbright professor at Cornell University; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics. She is the author or co-author of eight books on medieval English Literature, Contemporary English and Irish Literature.

• Contents: Michael Alexander: The landscape of the afterlife in medieval and post-medieval imagination – Rafał Borysławski: Between ofergyhg and wræclastas: Pride and exile in the speculative afterlife of Christ and Satan – Anna Czarnowus: Muhammad in Hell, or Dante and William Langland on the prophet’s afterlife – Sabine Heinz: Afterlife and Celtic concepts of the Otherworld – Dwight Holbrook: The ‘after’ in medieval afterlife: A vertical or horizontal arrow of time? – Ł Lukasz Hudomiet: Unreal wonderlands - The quest for Paradise in late medieval and Victorian imagination – Barbara Kowalik: Inklings of afterlife: Images of Hell in C.S. Lewis’ The great divorce and Charles Williams’ Et in sempiternum pereant – Joanna Ludwikowska-Leniec: Access denied: The female «wild zone» in visions of Purgatory by Christina Mirabilis – Jacek Olesiejko: The Anglo-Saxon idea of locus amoenus: The Paradise in the Old English Judgement day II and The Phoenix – Liliana Sikorska: Reading and writing a medievalist text: Adam Thorpe’s Hodd. An advertisement in five acts – Andrzej Wicher: Some gender aspects of the motif of penance in selected Middle English romances.