Literary studies

Proposed candidates for supervisors

  • German-language literature
  • literature for children and young adults
  • applied writing from the 16th to the 20th century (diaries, journals, letters, wills, official documents
  • women’s literature 17th-20th century
  • physiognomy of characters in narrative works
  • the creation of macro- and micro-spaces in works of the 17th-20th century. (e.g. state, city, village, court)
  • “evolution” of genres over the centuries: e.g. poem, memoir
  • the function of the letter in narrative structure (e.g. in the historical novel)
  • old Polish calendars: genological description of structure, thematic content
  • everyday life and festivity in selected works of the 17th-20th century
  • baptisms, weddings, divorces and funerals in the writing of the XVII-XX w
  • selected literary motifs (synchronic and diachronic approach)
  • old Polish literature on the Internet (site composition, criteria of material selection, virtual audience, commercialisation, etc.)
  • rhetoric as a tool of persuasion in speeches, speeches (secular and religious) of the 17th-20th century
  • stylistic shape of selected works of the 17th-20th century
  • borderland themes in the literature of the XVI-XX century
  • ways of communication in old Poland (documents of the royal chancellery, private correspondence)
  • ration (e.g. wedding, funeral) as communication (family, customs, artistic)
  • literature and social behaviour in the 17th-20th century.
  • comparative literature in English and Polish
  • the reception of British writers in Poland
  • literary translation
  • contemporary francophone literature
  • correspondence of arts and comparatism
  • intertextuality, postmodernism, literary games
  • 20th-century drama and theater
  • borderland as a cultural category (borderlands)
  • Polish émigré literature after World War II (Marian Pankowski, Kalman Segal)
  • literature for children and young peoplea
  • anthropology of the child and childhood
  • literary studies of the Spanish language area
  • strategies of the contemporary historical novel
  • criticism and reception of literary translation
  • literature in the contemporary world – mechanisms of the literary field
  • Polish poetry and prose of the 20th and 21st century
  • biographical studies
  • epistolography of the 20th century
  • editing literary archival materials
  • theories of the creative imagination
  • mythocriticism
  • literary comparative and transdisciplinary studies
  • literature of the French language area
  • poetry of the 19th and 21st centuries
  • travel literature
  • utopias, anti-utopias, dystopias
  • myths and identity narratives
  • trends in Western culture
  • didactics of Polish literature and language as a component of humanistic education (anthropological approach)
  • education in the humanities: the interference of word and image
  • literature and painting
  • didactics of literature
  • school reception of literary works
  • English-language contemporary literature
  • religious poetry
  • theatrology
  • dramatology
  • performatics
  • Polish language didactics
  • modern literature (from the antebellum period of Young Poland to the present day)
  • poetry of the 20th century
  • imaginarium of modernity
  • problems of myth and transgression
  • representations of the memory of the Shoah
  • the art of interpretation
  • literary criticism
  • anthropology of literature
  • geopoetics, ecopoetics and environmental humanities in the study of Polish literature and writing of the 20th and 21st centuries
  • women’s prose of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • theatre and drama of Young Poland
  • literature of the 19th century in the face of history
  • travel writing of the age of ‘steam and electricity’
  • history of the reception of the works of Polish literati of the 19th century
  • literature of Young Poland (with particular emphasis on forgotten authors)
  • English-language literature
  • literary theory
  • literature and media
  • posthumanities
  • queer theory.
  • the anthropocenric-cultural idea in school and university education
  • issues of reading (reception, receptive attitudes, reading styles) at school
  • personalisation and individualisation of education; literature in primary and secondary school
  • the research workshop of the Polish language teacher
  • axiological issues in the didactics of literature
  • literature for children and young people at school; problems of popular culture in school education
  • textbooks for primary and secondary education
  • relations of 19th-century literature with philosophy, religion and politics
  • emancipation and women’s movements in the 19th and early 20th centuries
  • literary criticism of the second half of the 19th century
  • literary and artistic life of Cracow in the era of Galician autonomy
  • contemporary literature (Szymborska, Herbert, Różewicz, Barańczak, Mrożek, Mysliwski and others);
  • environmental humanities;
  • destruction in literature

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