Przemysław Grabowski-Górniak, assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. His research focuses on chivalric romance, medievalism in heroic fantasy, and the medieval martial tradition in historical and modern literature. His interest in the Middle Ages goes beyond the academia, as he is also a historical reenactor, and a HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) instructor, working with medieval manuscripts to reconstruct martial techniques of the period.