Research Areas
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2019, December 5 - 9:25amInstitute of Applied Linguistics
Director – Assoc. Prof. Hadrian Lankiewicz, e-mail: hadrian.lankiewicz@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Director: Dr Magdalena Grabowska, e-mail: magdalena.grabowska@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Intercultural aspects of translation theory and practice: translation and transgression
- »» History of the German language and diachronic linguistics
- »» Selected aspects of linguistic theory: syntax, phraseology, lexicology, language borrowing, interlingual contacts
- »» British historical fiction and the work of Peter Ackroyd
- »» Ecological linguistics, language awareness and critical language awareness
- »» Notional semantics. The linguistic and cultural image of the world in products of popular culture
- »» Teaching English and German as foreign languages
Institute of Classical and Slavonic Studies
Director – Assoc. Prof. Dušan-Vladislav Paždjerski, e-mail: slaw@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Director: Assoc. Prof. Anna Marchewka, e-mail: anna.marchewka@ug.edu.pl
Classical Philology Division
Head – Dr Grzegorz Kotłowski, e-mail: grzegorz.kotlowski@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Edtion of Neo-Latin Texts
- »» Editions of ancient Greek texts
- »» Ancient Greek historiography
- »» Scientific prose in ancient Greece
- »» Roman literature of the Augustan Age
- »» Literature of the Roman Empire
- »» Occasional literature in Gdańsk (XVI-XVIII c.)
Slavonic and Balkan Studies Division
Head – Dr Maša Guštin, e-mail: masa.gustin@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Paleoslavistics
- »» Onomastics
- »» Lexicography and normativity in languages
- »» South Slavonic literature
- »» Translation
- »» Literary theory
- »» Old Church Slavonic
Institute of Cultural Research
Director – Prof. Mirosław Przylipiak, e-mail: fpomp@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Director: Dr Aleksandra Wierucka, e-mail: kultura@ug.edu.pl
Cultural Studies Division
Head – Dsc. Grzegorz Piotrowski, e-mail: piotrowski.ug@ug.edu.pl
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
Film and Media Division
Head – Dr Piotr Kurpiewski, e-mail: piotr.kurpiewski@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- 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
Director – Assoc. Prof. Mirosława Modrzewska, e-mail: miroslawa.modrzewska@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Directors:
Assoc. Prof. Jean Ward, e-mail: jean.ward@ug.edu.pl
Dr Magdalena Wawrzyniak-Śliwska, e-mail: magdalena.wawrzyniak@ug.edu.pl
Dr Wioleta Karwacka, e-mail: wioleta.karwacka@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» British, Irish, and American fiction, poetry, theater and drama
- »» Theory of translation
- »» Discourse analysis
- »» Descriptive linguistics: phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
- »» Linguistic theories
American Studies Division
Head – dr Arkadiusz Misztal, e-mail: arkadiusz.misztal@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- American Émigré Fiction
- American Ethnic Studies
- American Literature after WWII
- American Philosophy of Technology
- American Poetry
- American Theater and Music
- Border Studies
- Discourse Analysis
- Literary Theory
- Memory Studies
- Postcolonial Writing
- Women’s Writing
- Time Studies
English Language and Theoretical Linguistics Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Olga Sokołowska, e-mail: angos@ug.gda.pl
Research areas:
- »» Descriptive linguistics: phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
- »» Cognitive linguistics
- »» Historical linguistics
- »» Linguistic theories
- »» Sociolinguistics (language varieties, standardization etc.)
- »» Applied linguistics (lexicography etc.)
- »» Teaching foreign languages (mainly English)
Glottodidactics and Natural Language Processsing Division
Head – Dr Magdalena Wawrzyniak-Śliwska, e-mail: magdalena.wawrzyniak@ug.edu.pl
Literary Studies in English Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Jean Ward, e-mail: jean.ward@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- 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
Translation Studies in English Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska, e-mail: magdalena.bielenia-grajewska@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Theory of translation
- »» Discourse analysis
- »» Pamphlets and pamphleteers in early modern England
- »» Legal translation studies
- »» Utopian studies/translations of utopian fiction
- »» Intercultural communication
- »» Corpus linguistics, Corpus-based translation studies
Head – Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Wiśniewski, e-mail: tomasz.wisniewski@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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
Director – Prof. Mirosław Ossowski, e-mail: miroslaw.ossowski@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Directors:
Dr Dariusz Pakalski, e-mail: dariusz.pakalski@ug.edu.pl
Dr Ewa Andrzejewska, e-mail: ewa.andrzejewska@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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
German Language and Translation Studies Division
Head – Prof. Andrzej Kątny, e-mail: andrzej.katny@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- Contrastive studies of German, Polish and Swedish
- Characteristics of specialist texts on the lexical, grammatical and metalinguistic grounds
- The language of the German and Jewish press in the Free City of Danzig (1920–1939)
- Linguistic and cultural contact of German and Polish, English and Polish, Yiddish, Kashubian and Russian in diachronic and synchronic perspective
- Lexicography, phraseology and phraseography
- Translation studies; translation of literary texts and texts designed for immediate use
- Cultural memory studies
- Psycho- and pragmalinguistics
- Current methods of foreign language teaching
- Methods of teaching German to young learners, methods of teaching German as a language for special purposes
- Interdisciplinary methods of foreign language teaching
- Influence of art on the process of teaching a foreign language
- Intercultural communication
- Reception of Polish literature in Germany; German language literature of Danzig/Gdańsk
German Literature and Culture Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Marion Brandt, e-mail: marion.brandt@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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
Institute of Logopaedics
Head – Assoc. Prof. Stanisław Milewski, e-mail: stanislaw.milewski@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Director: Assoc. Prof. Katarzyna Kaczorowska-Bray, e-mail: logkk@ug.gda.pl
Research areas:
- »» Speech Disorders
- »» Development of Children’s Language
- »» Diagnosis and Therapy of Speech Disorders
- »» Language in standard and pathological use
- »» Prophylactic speech therapy
- »» Language structure
Institute of Polish Language and Literature
Director – Assoc. Prof. Edward Jakiel, e-mail: fpoej@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Directors:
Assoc. Prof. Małgorzata Jarmułowicz, e-mail: fpomj@ug.edu.pl
Dr Jolanta Laskowska, e-mail: yola@ug.gda.pl
Assoc. Prof. Aneta Lewińska, e-mail: fpoal@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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
Applied Polish Studies Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Grażyna Tomaszewska, e-mail: grażyna.tomaszewska@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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
Drama and Theatre Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Małgorzata Jarmułowicz, e-mail: fpomj@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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 Language Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Ewa Badyda, e-mail: fpoeba@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Linguistic pragmatics
- »» Linguistic textology (text structure, genre)
- »» Lexical semantics and semantics of text
- »»Word-formation in language and text
- »» Kashubian language and Kashubian dialectology
- »» Culture of Polish language
- »» Linguistic image of the world
Head – Assoc. Prof. Radosław Grześkowiak, e-mail: radoslaw.grzeskowiak@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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
Theory of Literature and Art Criticism Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Maciej Michalski, e-mail: maciej.michalski@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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
Institute of Romance Studies
Director – Assoc. Prof. Joanna Jereczek-Lipińska, e-mail: filjj@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Director – Assoc. Prof. Ewa Wierzbowska, e-mail: ewa.wierzbowska@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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
Iberian Studies Division
Head – Dr Mirosław Trybisz, e-mail: m.trybisz@ug.edu.pl
- Contrastive linguistics
- History of Romance Languages
- Lexicology and lexicography
- Spanish teaching methods
- Contemporary Spanish and Portuguese literature
Romance Linguistics Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Joanna Jereczek-Lipińska, e-mail: filjj@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Contrastive linguistics
- »» Diachronic linguistic studies of Indo-European languages
- »» Lexicology
- »» Language of the media
- »» Discourse semantics
- »» Neology
- »» French teaching methods
Romance Literatures Division
Head – Prof. Michał Piotr Mrozowicki, e-mail: filmim@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» 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: filzs@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Directors:
Dr Katarzyna Wądołowska-Lesner, e-mail: katarzyna.lesner@ug.edu.pl
Dr Aleksandra Klimkiewicz, e-mail: a.klimkiewicz@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Spirituality in Russian literature and culture
- »» Russian literature and culture: tradition and innovation
- »» Text as culture, culture as text
- »» Theory and practice of translation
- »» Theory of communication and communicative strategies
- »» Cognitive, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic empirical studies
- »» Aspects of the process of language acquisition
East Asian Culture and Languages Division
Head – Dr Przemysław Sieradzan, e-mail: polps@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
Russian Languages and Translation Studies Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Alicja Pstyga, e-mail: finap@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Phonetics, phonology and graphics of contemporary Russian language
- »» The theory of translation
- »» Intercultural Communications
- »» Translation lexicography
- »» Semantics of contemporary Russian language
- »» Functional linguistics
- »» Linguistic and pragmatic dimensions of translation
Russian Studies, Literature and Culture Division
Head – Dr Liliana Kalita, e-mail: liliana.kalita@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» Poetics and theory of literature
- »» Old Slavonic literature
- »» Russian modernism
- »» Philosophical issues and poetics of contemporary Russian prose
- »» Esotericism in Russian literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
- »» Russian culture
- »» Jewish-Polish and Jewish-Russian contacts
Pragmatics of Communication and Russian Language Teaching Division
Head – Assoc. Prof. Żanna Sładkiewicz, e-mail: filzs@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- »» The process of language acquisition, communicative competence in a foreign language
- »» Studying of language personality and types of language personality
- »» Language pedagogy
- »» Psychological aspects of reading in native and foreign languages; the readability of text
- »» Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics
- »» Communicative pragmatics
- »» Communicative behaviour of Polish and Russian people
Institute of Scandinavian and Finnish Studies
Director – Assoc. Prof. Maria Sibińska, e-mail: films@ug.edu.pl
Deputy Director:
Assoc. Prof. Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska, e-mail: hanna.dymel-trzebiatowska@ug.edu.pl
Research areas:
- 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)