Bartłomiej Kozioł

Bartłomiej Kozioł

A first-year doctoral student at the Doctoral School of the Pedagogical University of the National Education Commission in Cracow, in the discipline of literary studies.

I am a graduate of the first- and second-cycle degree studies in Polish philology (with a teaching specialisation) at the University of Applied Sciences in Tarnów (formerly the State Higher Vocational School in Tarnów and then the Academy of Applied Sciences in Tarnów). The aforementioned period of education culminated in my implementation type M.A. thesis on the motif of the castle in Polish Romantic poetry and its contemporary cultural connotations. It became the basis for the decision to extend my previous investigations and research inspirations that are continued in the Doctoral School.

The research I am conducting for the purpose of preparing my doctoral dissertation covers a wide spectrum of issues related to the folk symbolism of supernatural beings in the poetry of Polish Romanticism. I intend to refer in it to the literary legacy not only of the Three Bards of that period, but also to the creative output of poets less known and forgotten in the discourse of literary studies.

I describe my interests as versatile and primarily oriented towards the search for connections between the humanities at different research levels. In literary studies, I am passionate about all issues related to geopoetics and spirituality present in Romantic poetry as well as descriptions of nature in the poetry of Young Poland. Currently, I am also looking for references to the meaning of the motif of nature in contemporary Polish religious poetry.

I am particularly fascinated by selected issues in the field of Christian theology, philosophy of religion, ethics, didactics and methodology of teaching at the university level. Privately, I am an enthusiast of souvenirs and relics of the past preserved as part of the heritage of material monuments, including historic churches, examples of wooden and fortified architecture. Enchanted by the beauty and pristine nature of Polish mountains.