Scholar of literature and intellectual history. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan´. Junkiert focuses on nineteenth-century evolution of historical-literary research, literary reception of the French Revolution, and Polish literature as Weltliteratur. Author of two books, editor of nine collective volumes, and dozens of articles published in Poland, Germany, France, Greece, and the United Kingdom.

• Chapter 1. The Birth of Historicism and the German GriechenmythosChapter 2. Changes in the Classical Tradition in the Works of Groddeck and LelewelChapter 3. Adam Mickiewicz’s Lausanne Lectures and Their German Sources Chapter 4. Black Athena in the Paris Lectures