Research areas

• Selected problems of bibliotherapy
• Polish-German relations in history
• Anthropology of South America
• New Media
• Gdynia’s urban legends
• Contemporary art and culture

• History of Polish Cinema
• Animated Films
• Non-fictional cinema
• Narration in the Fiction Film
• Film and Comic Strips
• Small National Cinematographies

Institute of English and American Studies

• British, Irish, and American fiction, poetry, theater and drama
• Theory of translation
• Discourse analysis
• Descriptive linguistics: phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
• Linguistic theories

• British, Irish and American literature and criticism
• English-language postcolonial literature
• Women's writing
• Religious literature
• Utopian studies
• Spatial literary studies
• Narratology
• Literary semiotics
• Ecocriticism

• Theatre and drama theory
• Theatre and related activities: performance art, video-art, street-art etc.
• Theatre productions world-wide
• Theatre and performace criticism
• Digital performance

• Contrastive studies of Polish and German grammar, lexis and stylistics
• Language and cultural contacts-the image of the world and translation of various kinds of texts
• Teaching and acquisition of the German language in theory and practice
• Experimental (metaphysical) writers. Aesthetics, identity, interculturalism
• The output of Friedrich Hölderlin
• The output of German writers from Gdańsk and former East Prussia
• Polish-German relations in literature

• Polish-German literary contacts
• The works of Günter Grass
• Collective memory of Polish-German cultural borderlands (Pomerania)
• Relations of ‘new media’ theory and history and culture
• Jewish identity in literature
• Aesthetics of the literary work
• German drama and theatre

• Speech Disorders
• Development of Children’s Language
• Diagnosis and Therapy of Speech Disorders
• Language in standard and pathological use
• Prophylactic speech therapy
• Language structure

• Language, literature, culture, arts and changes in research paradigms
• History, biography, and texts in long term” perspective
• Polish language, literature, and culture in school education
• Performative dimensions of past and contemporary culture

• Modern interpretative strategies in school education
• Educational research concerning the realization of the new Polish Studies Core Curriculum
• Research concerning the development of teaching Polish as a foreign language
• Kashubian ethno-philology
• Readership and editorship in the information and digital technology era
• Bolesław Leśmian and the experience of poetry

• Performing arts in Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot
• The history of Polish and universal theater
• Contemporary Polish and universal drama and theatre
• The anthropology of spectacle and ritual arts
• Theatre in the context of other performing arts
• Cultural phenomena from the border of the theatre 

• Polish literary history
• Philosophical, religious and artistic contexts of Polish literary history
• Hebrew and classical heritage in Polish literary history (Bible, Greek and Roman culture and literature)
• Editorship, nonfictional prose, epistolography, biographical and religious literature in Poland
• Literary criticism and journalism in Polish literary history
• Theatre, painting, music and applied arts in the context of Polish culture and literature

• Studies on nonfictional prose
• Posthumanities, animal studies
• Literary theory and the topographical turn
• Reception theory issues
• Anthropology of everyday life
• Discourses of identity in Polish culture
• Intimacy and its transformation in contemporary culture

• Romance literatures and modern humanities
• Comparative studies in Romance cultures and literatures
• Diachronic linguistics and translation studies
• Discourse analysis
• Teaching French as a foreign language
• Translation studies

• Contrastive linguistics
• Diachronic linguistic studies of Indo-European languages
• Lexicology
• Language of the media
• Discourse semantics
• Neology
• French teaching methods

• Self-creation in contemporary art and literature
• French literature and posthumanist studies
• Mythologies of power in the age of Enlightenment
• Women’s literature in the 19th century France
• Comparative studies in literature and music
• Comparative Studies in French and Polish literature
• Anthropological thought of the Italian Renaissance

Institute of Russian and Eastern Studies

Director – Assoc. Prof. Żanna Sładkiewicz, e-mail: zanna.sladkiewicz@ug.edu.pl

• Chinese Culture and Civilization
• Sino-European Intercultural Relations
• Chinese Literature: Tradition and Modernity
• Didactics of Chinese Language
• Theatre in China and Taiwan
• International Relations in East Asia
• Political Leadership in East Asian States
• Political History of East Asian States
• Political History of East Asia
• Culture and Tradition of Japan

• History of Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea region
• Scandinavian Literature: Scandinavian children’s  literature;  Scandinavian drama; Norse literature; Modern Norwegian literature
• Literary Translation: Translation of Children’s literature, Drama, Comics
• Media and communication in Nordic countries
• Scandinavian culture: Representations of the Arctic in Scandinavian and Polish discourses; The Reception of Scandinavian polar explorers in Poland at the end of the 19th and the beginning of 20th century; Scandinavian theatre;  Saami culture; imaginings of the Nordic region in Poland; popular culture of the Nordic region
• Knowledge regimes and epistemic communities in Nordic-Baltic area
• Public sector reforms in Northern European states, Science policy in the Baltic Sea region
• Confrontative linguistics, Finnic languages, translation lexicography (theory and practice)