Stankomir Nicieja is an associate professor at the, Institute of Literary and Media Studies, University of Opole.

He has published on various aspects of the relations between literature, film and politics as well as utopian studies and film theory.

He is the author of the monographs Lessons from the East: Representations of China and East Asia in Contemporary Anglophone Films and Novels (Peter Lang, 2018) and In the Shadow of the Iron Lady: Thatcherism as a Cultural Phenomenon and Its Representation in the Contemporary British Novel (University of Opole Press, 2011). He also co-edited a number of volumes including Evil and Ugliness Across Literatures and Cultures (2012), Faces and Masks of Ugliness in Literary Narrative (2013), Poisoned Cornucopia: Excess, Intemperance and Overabundance Across Cultures and Literatures (2014) and The Outlandish, Uncanny, Bizarre: Culture, Literature, Philosophy (2016). His academic interests include cinema, contemporary British and American fiction and utopian studies.