Jakub Kosek – holds a PhD in the humanities. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Media and Cultural Research at the Institute of Polish Philology at the Pedagogical University in Krakow. His research interests include transmediality and the multimodality of popular music, (dark) anthropology of rock culture, and heavy metal discourses. He is the author of (Auto)biograficzne narracje transmedialne twórców rockowych [(Auto)biographical transmedia narratives of rock artists] (2019) and editor of the volume Artyści i sceny metalowej (kontr)kultury [Metal (counter-)culture: Artists and the scene] (2020). He is also the (co)editor of several volumes of the journal Studia de Cultura, devoted, among others, to popular music and culture studies (recently together with Magdalena Stoch, Studia de Cultura No. 13,2 / 2021, “Female Artists and (Post) feminist Discourses of Popular Music Culture”). He is the organizer of the annual interdisciplinary metal music studies conference.