Dr. Beniamin Kłaniecki is a Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Irish Literature and Literary Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He earned his PhD in English-language literature (summa cum laude) in 2021. His research lies at the intersection of queer theory, masculinity studies, and post-millennial Indian fiction in English as well as Polish speculative fiction. His work has appeared in edited volumes and academic journals such as the Journal of Postcolonial Literature, the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studies in Travel Writing and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Dr. Kłaniecki is the recipient of Poland's Minister of Science and Higher Education scholarship for outstanding academic achievements (2017). He has previously completed two research internships at the Manipal Institute for Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, MAHE, India, under the guidance of Prof. E. Dawson Varughese (2023, 2024), as well as several research stays at the University of Cambridge, UK (2018, 2022, 2023, 2025), supported by the Clifford and Mary Corbridge scholarship. In the winter term 2025/26, he is developing a project titled 'Speculative bodies: Technology, capitalism and queer hope in post-millennial semi-peripheral speculative fiction from Poland and India' at Goethe University, hosted by Prof. Dr. Heidi Lucja Liedke.