Wojciech Jan Browarny (born in 1970) is a Polish literary scholar, literary critic, regionalist scholar and associate professor at Wrocà Âaw University. He works at the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wrocà Âaw, where he heads the Department of History of Polish Literature after 1918 and the Regional Research Unit.
His research focuses on contemporary Polish literature, anthropological problems of modernity, relationships of culture and history with nature, and regional studies. In the years 1996âÂÂ1999, he was in charge of the criticism section of the literary and artistic journal Dykcja. He contributes reviews to the monthlies Nowe KsiÃ à ¼ki and Odra.
He is the chairman of the University Committee for the Care of Graves of Persons of Merit for the University of Wrocà Âaw. He has been elected a member of the Committee on Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the 2020âÂÂ2023 term.
He belonged to the Wrocà Âaw branch of the Association of People of Silesian Nationality. He is a co-founder and secretary of the Rosa Luxemburg Society of Global Solidarity (Towarzystwo Solidarnoà Âci Globalnej im. RÃ³à ¼y Luksemburg) and a member of the political party Left Together (Lewica Razem). In the 2015 parliamentary election, he ran as the fourth candidate on Razem's list in the Wrocà Âaw electoral district. He received 931 votes.