 In 1968, she was appointed head of the Department of the History of the 19th-Century Literature.After the March events of 1968, she was dismissed from her position at the WSP as the communist authorities were concerned about her growing influence on the university students.Her lectures placed emphasis on revolutionary and libertarian aspects of romanticism which did not adhere to the official and generally accepted interpretation of the literary canon and encouraged her students to adopt a bold, defiant and original perspective on the Polish literature.