Literary scholar, theoretician and historian of literature, active member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, vice president of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012-2018), professor emeritus of the Jagiellonian University, former head of the Department of the History of Old Polish Literature of the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University, full professor of the State Higher Vocational School in Tarnow, member of the Publishing Council of the Foundation for Polish Science, member of the Council of the Academy of Artes Liberales.B. editor-in-chief, currently a member of the editorial board of the “Terminus” yearbook.