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  • Prof. dr hab. Piotr Borek

    piotr.borek@uken.krakow.pl

    Areas of research

    • 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.

  • dr hab. Tomasz Chomiszczak, prof. UKEN

    tomasz.chomiszczak@uken.krakow.pl

    Areas of research

    • 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)

  • dr hab. Marta Cichocka, prof. UKEN

    marta.cichocka@uken.krakow.pl

    Areas of research

    • 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

  • dr hab. Stanisław Jasionowicz, prof. UKEN

    stanislaw.jasionowicz@uken.krakow.pl

    Areas of research

    • 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

  • prof. dr hab. Paweł Próchniak

    pawel.prochniak@uken.krakow.pl

    Areas of research

    • 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

  • dr hab. Magdalena Sadlik, prof. UKEN

    magdalena.sadlik@uken.krakow.pl

    Areas of research

    • 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)

  • dr hab. Paweł Sporek, prof. UKEN

    pawel.sporek@uken.krakow.pl

    Areas of research

    • 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

  • dr hab. Renata Stachura-Lupa, prof. UKEN

    renata.stachura-lupa@uken.krakow.pl

    Areas of research

    • 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
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