Dr Adam Nowakowski is a literary scholar and linguist, he graduated with honours from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, where he completed master’s degrees in Russian and Polish philology and earned a PhD in Russian literature. He was awarded First Prize in the 8th Jagiellonian University Competition for the Best Master’s Thesis in Linguistics.

Dr Nowakowski has held academic positions at the Carpathian State College in Krosno (Poland), the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina (USA), and Kraków University of Technology (Poland). He has received the Rector’s Award of the Carpathian State College on several occasions. Supported by Erasmus+ mobility grants, he studied at Stockholm University and delivered lectures at universities in Sweden, Italy, Turkey, Northern Ireland, Romania, and Kazakhstan. He was appointed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) as a Polish language instructor at Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Nowakowski's research focuses on intercultural communication, broadly conceived and examined through language, gesture, literature, and media. He is the author of the monograph In the Land of a Thousand Lakes: The Image of Finland in Russian Travel Literature (1809–1917), as well as scholarly articles published in three languages.