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:
Department of Polish Literature/Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
601 361 930

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

Personal Website:

ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Literary Studies

Academic Achievement Indicators

Number of Publications According to the WoS/Scopus Database: 7

Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations:

Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): 0

Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 58

Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 4

Number of Promoted Doctors: 3

Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: 0

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • A Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (1)
  • A Foreign Doctoral Student: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Polish Literature After 1939 and Contemporary Literature After 1989
  2. Autobiography, Therapeutic Functions of Literature, Memory in Literary Activity in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  3. Literary Activity in Warmia and Mazury After 1945
  4. Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is There Funding Available to Cover the Cost of Research?
    Yes
  2. Is the Infrastructure and Adequate Resources Available in the Laboratory/Chair to Serve the Planned Research Tasks?
    N/A

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

Department/Chair/Institute:
Department of English-Language Literatures and Cultures/Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
512 358 137

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

Personal Website:

ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Literary Studies

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of Publications According to the WoS/Scopus Database:
    14/16
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations:
    15/11
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus):
    2/1
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar):
    95
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar):
    4
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors:
    4
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students:
    0

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • A Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (1)
  • A Foreign Doctoral Student: Yes (1)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Translation Studies
  2. English Fiction in the 19th Century and Its Refractions (Adaptations, Translations)
  3. Joseph Conrad’s Works
  4. Multilingual Writers

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is There Funding Available to Cover the Cost of Research?
    Yes
  2. Is the Infrastructure and Adequate Resources Available in the Laboratory/Chair to Serve the Planned Research Tasks?
    N/A

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

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

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
+48 89 524 63 21

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

Personal Website:

ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Literary Studies

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of Publications According to the WoS/Scopus Database:
  •  
  1. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations:
  •  
  1. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus):
  •  
  1. Number of Citations (Google Scholar):
    97
  2. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar):
    5
  3. Number of Promoted Doctors:
    1
  4. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students:
    0

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • A Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (1)
  • A Foreign Doctoral Student: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Romance and Novel in the 17th and 18th Centuries
  2. Women’s Literary Works in the 18th Century
  3. Old Polish Epistolography
  4. Autobiographical Writing in the 18th Century
  5. Love and Eroticism in Culture

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is There Funding Available to Cover the Cost of Research?
    Yes
  2. Is the Infrastructure and Adequate Resources Available in the Laboratory/Chair to Serve the Planned Research Tasks?
    N/A

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

Tel.:
(+48) 604 321 082

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

Personal Website:

ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Literary Studies

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of Publications According to the WoS/Scopus Database:
    5/8
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations:
    3/2
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus):
    1/1
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar):
    10
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar):
    2
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors:
    2
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students:
    0

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • A Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (1)
  • A Foreign Doctoral Student: Yes (1)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Archetypal Analysis of Literary Works (18th–21st Centuries, Ukrainian and Russian Context)
  2. The Bible in Ukrainian and Russian Literature (18th–21st Centuries)
  3. Symbolic Biography of the Writer as a Research Problem (18th–21st Centuries, Ukrainian and Russian Context)
  4. Literary Comparative Studies: Ukrainian-Polish-Russian Context

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is There Funding Available to Cover the Cost of Research?
    Yes
  2. Is the Infrastructure and Adequate Resources Available in the Laboratory/Chair to Serve the Planned Research Tasks?
    N/A

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

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

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
501390943

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

Personal Website:

ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Literary Studies

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of Publications According to the WoS/Scopus Database:
  1. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations:
  1. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus):

  1. Number of Citations (Google Scholar):
    107

  2. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar):

  • h-index: 5
  • i10-index: 2

  1. Number of Promoted Doctors:
    5

  2. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students:
    0

  3. I Will Take on the Supervision of:

    • a. A Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (2)
    • b. A Foreign Doctoral Student: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Polish Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  2. Religious Traditions in Literature
  3. Polish Literary Activity in the Region of Mazury in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  4. Aspects of Literary Regionalism
  5. Biographies of Poets and Writers

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is There Funding Available to Cover the Cost of Research?
    YES

  2. Is the Infrastructure and Adequate Resources Available in the Laboratory/Chair to Serve the Planned Research Tasks?
    N/A

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

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

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
89 524-63-33

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

Personal Website:

ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Literary Studies

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of Publications According to the WoS/Scopus Database:
  •  
  1. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations:
  •  
  1. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus):
  •  
  1. Number of Citations (Google Scholar):
    28
  2. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar):
    3
  3. Number of Promoted Doctors:
    5
  4. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students:
    0

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • A Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (3)
  • A Foreign Doctoral Student: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Literature and Art of the Young Poland Period
  2. Literature and Art of European Modernism at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
  3. A Fairy Tale in Polish and Foreign Literature of the 19th Century

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is There Funding Available to Cover the Cost of Research?
    Yes
  2. Is the Infrastructure and Adequate Resources Available in the Laboratory/Chair to Serve the Planned Research Tasks?
    N/A

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3881-0474

Department/Chair/Institute:
Department of Russian Literature and Language / Institute of Literary Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
606 719 496

E-mail:
Anna.ndiaye@uwm.edu.pl

Personal Website:
Link

ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Literary Studies

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of Publications According to the WoS/Scopus Database:
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations:
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus):
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar):
    80
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar):
    4
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors:
    3
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students:
    2

        I Will Take on the Supervision of:

        • A Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (1)
        • A Foreign Doctoral Student: Yes (1)

        Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

        1. Russian Emigration Literature
        2. Contemporary Russian Literature
        3. Literary Translation

        Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

        1. Is There Funding Available to Cover the Cost of Research?
          Yes
        2. Is the Infrastructure and Adequate Resources Available in the Laboratory/Chair to Serve the Planned Research Tasks?
          N/A

        Scientific Disciplines