Literary studies

Literary studies

Programme Duration: 4 years (8 semesters)

Programme Description

The Doctoral School programme equips graduates with solid expertise within the scope of humanistic and social sciences; it also provides them with thorough specialist knowledge within literary studies. The didactic offer fosters the development of methodological research know-how of the students, including the systematic development of the research of literary phenomena and processes in the context of synchronic and diachronic approaches, the creation of various texts, their analysis, interpretation (including scientific publications) and research procedures, literary studies with the implementation of appropriate methods and techniques. The acquired literary studies competencies enable further novel, scientific projects within literary and cultural studies.

Graduate profile:

Having graduated from the Doctoral School, the alumni demonstrate profound knowledge within the scope of humanities – particularly literary issues – associated with their doctoral projects. The alumni are competent in researching particular literary cases and communicating in their mother tongues and foreign languages. The alumni are ready to self-educate, as well as to undertake individual or team scientific challenges. They are prepared for the highest-quality research and didactic effort and can seek employment with higher education institutions, research institutes, and other scientific and/or educational establishments. The alumni will be adequately prepared for post-doctoral internship/training, a continuation of research, and employment in the academic environment, be it in the home or foreign research institutions.

Keywords:

  • Polish literature (17th-21st century)
  • English literature (19th-21st century)
  • American literature (19th-20th century)
  • Ukrainian literature (18th-21st century)
  • East-Slavonic contemporary literature
  • German literature and culture (20th– 21st centuries)
  • Austrian literature (20th century)
  • Literary theory and critique
  • Theory and practice of interpretation
  • Theory and practice of translation
  • Textual criticism
  • Literary research methodology
  • Comparative studies
  • Autobiographical literature (18th-21st century)
  • The issue of memory in literature (20th-21st century)
  • Women’s literary creation (18th-21st century)
  • Letter writing (18th century)
  • Religious traditions in literature
  • Literary regionalism
  • Warmia and Mazury literature (19th-21st century)
  • Archetypal analysis of literary works (Russian and Ukrainian literature)
  • Literature and modernist art
  • Emigration studies (Russian journalism and literature)
  • Multilingual writers

Candidates for PhD Supervisors

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8057-1898

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Polish Literature / Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 601 361 930

E-mail:
j.chlosta-zielonka@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanna-Chlosta-Zielonka

Scientific Discipline:
Literary Studies
(In the case of a doctoral dissertation conducted in two scientific disciplines, it is permissible to indicate one discipline that is not represented in the Doctoral School.)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): 7

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 0

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 0

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 71

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 4

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 3

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 1

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: (not specified)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Polish literature after 1939 and contemporary literature after 1989

  • Autobiographism, therapeutic functions of literature, the issue of memory in 20th- and 21st-century writing

  • Literature of Warmia and Masuria after 1945

  • Literature for children and young adults

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Not applicable

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1283-9615

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures / Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 512 358 137

E-mail:
ewa.kujawska-lis@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Literary Studies
(In the case of a doctoral dissertation conducted in two scientific disciplines, it is permissible to indicate one discipline not represented in the Doctoral School.)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): 14 / 19

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 18 / 16

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 2

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 126

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 5

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 4

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Theory and practice of translation

  • 19th-century English prose and its refractions (adaptations, translations)

  • Works of Joseph Conrad

  • Multilingual writers

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Not applicable

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8165-502X

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Polish Literature / Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 89 524 63 21

E-mail:
iwona.maciejewska@uwm.edu.pl

Scientific Discipline:
Literary Studies

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: –

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 97

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 5

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 1

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: Yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Romance and the novel of the 17th and 18th centuries

  • Women’s writing in the 18th century

  • Old Polish epistolography

  • Autobiographical writing in the 18th century

  • Love and eroticism in culture

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Not applicable

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8930-7476

Department/Chair/Institute:
Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
(+48) 604 321 082

E-mail:
iryna.betko@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Literary Studies
(in the case of a doctoral dissertation conducted in two academic disciplines, it is permissible to indicate one discipline not represented in the doctoral school)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): 5 / 8

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 3 / 2

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 1 / 1

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 10

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 2

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 2

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: Yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Research in literary comparatistics: Ukrainian-Polish-Russian context

  • Archetypal analysis of literary works (18th–21st century, Ukrainian-Polish-Russian context)

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Not applicable

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-2199

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Polish Literature / Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 501 390 943

E-mail:
zbigniew.chojnowski@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Literary Studies
(in the case of a doctoral dissertation conducted in two academic disciplines, it is permissible to indicate one discipline not represented in the doctoral school)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: –

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 131

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 6

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 5

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: (not specified)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Polish poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries

  • Philosophical and religious traditions in literature

  • Axiological dimensions of literary works

  • Issues of literary regionalism (especially in Warmia and Masuria)

  • Polish Masurian writing of the 19th and 20th centuries

  • Literary biography

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Not applicable

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1548-9211

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Polish Literature / Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 89 524 63 33

E-mail:
grzegorz.iglinski@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Literary Studies
(in the case of a doctoral dissertation conducted in two academic disciplines, it is permissible to indicate one discipline not represented in the doctoral school)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: –

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 38

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 4

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 5

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes (3)
Foreign candidates: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Literature and art of the Young Poland period

  • Literature and art of European modernism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

  • Fairy tales in 19th-century Polish and foreign literature

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Not applicable

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5630-560X

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Polish Literature / Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 693 785 627

E-mail:
beata.tarnowska@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Literary Studies
(In the case of a doctoral dissertation conducted in two academic disciplines, it is permissible to indicate one discipline not represented in the doctoral school.)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: –

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 51

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 3

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 5

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: (no data)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Forgotten Polish writers of the interwar period

  • Literary bilingualism

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Not applicable

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5203-0760

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Literature and Culture of German-Speaking Countries / Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 664 768 470

E-mail:
aneta.jachimowicz@uwm.edu.pl

Personal Website:
https://wh.uwm.edu.pl/filologia-germanska/katedra-literatury-i-kultury-krajow-niemieckojezycznych/dr-hab-aneta-jachimowicz

ResearchGate Profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Literary Studies
(In the case of a doctoral dissertation conducted in two academic disciplines, it is permissible to indicate one discipline not represented in the doctoral school.)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: –

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): –

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 78

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 4

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
German-speaking candidates: Yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • German literary studies

  • Austrian literature

  • Postmodernism

  • Austrian literature and culture of the interwar period

  • Austrian theatre after 1945

  • Literary and cultural relations between Austria and the United States in the interwar period

  • Austrian women’s literature of the 19th and 20th centuries

  • Austrian press in the interwar period

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Not applicable

Scientific Disciplines