Department of French and Francophone Literature, University of Opole
The research interests of the Department’s faculty include French literature of the second half of the 19th century (the works of Émile Zola), 20th- and 21st-century French literature (in particular the prose of Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Michel Houellebecq, as well as the plays of Jean Giraudoux, Paul Claudel, and Nathalie Sarraute), and French, Francophone, and world literature from a comparative perspective (testimony of the times, exclusion, women’s writing, cultural and gender identity, otherness, transgression). The research interests of the unit’s staff, extending beyond philological studies, are part of an interdisciplinary perspective and also address issues related to translation studies in literary and cultural studies, geopoetics, and the interplay of the arts.
Department of English-Language Literatures
The research topics of the Department’s faculty focus on the national literatures of Great Britain, Australia, and the USA, with particular emphasis on modernism and postmodernism as movements in literature and art. In addition, an important aspect of the research is literary translation studies, as well as music and popular culture. The research is often comparative in nature, extending beyond the strict framework of philology and utilizing methodologies from cultural studies, sociology, and translation studies.
Department of Slavic Literatures, University of Opole
Within the Department of Slavic Literatures, research is primarily conducted in the following areas:
Department of Polish Literature, University of Opole
Faculty members of the Department of Polish Literature conduct independent research in the fields of literary history and theory, literary criticism, and comparative literature. Currently, the detailed list of research areas and topics is as follows:
Sabina BRZOZOWSKA-DYBIZBAŃSKA, Ph.D., Prof. at the University of Opole:
– the literature (and culture) of Young Poland and Modernism (primarily drama, theater, and short prose forms) from the perspective of ecocriticism, animal theology, and the Anthropocene.
– the prose and journalistic works of Tadeusz Rittner.
Dr. Małgorzata BURZKA-JANIK
– Romantic literature (from a comparative perspective);
– the writings of Tomasz August Olizarowski (monograph in preparation: Frenzy and Mysticism: The Poetic World of Tomasz August Olizarowski; editorial work on the second edition of Poems).
Dr. Marek DYBIZBAŃSKI, Prof. at the University of Opole
– Romantic literature (drama, theater);
– Mythology;
– Genetic analysis of dramatic texts;
– 19th-century theater criticism.
Dr. Adrian GLEŃ, Prof. at the University of Opole
– 20th-century literary theories (hermeneutics, the Geneva School);
– the relationship between literature and philosophy (Martin Heidegger’s views on art and literature);
– history of 20th-century literary criticism;
– the writings of Julian Kornhauser, Feliks Netz, Wojciech Kass, and Andrzej Stasiuk
– logocentrism in 20th- and 21st-century Polish poetry.
Dr. Maria ROWIŃSKA-SZCZEPANIAK, Professor at the University of Opole:
– Old Polish parenetic literature in socio-ideological contexts;
– Dominican preaching in the post-Tridentine era;
– Old Polish hagiographic literature;
– the problem of intellectual vision in the religious literature of the Polish Baroque;
– early literature from a long-term perspective.
Prof. Aneta MAZUR, Ph.D.
– Realist literature of the second half of the 19th century in Poland and Europe;
– The works of Adalbert Stifter;
– The theme of melancholy;
– The tradition of the Ukrainian school in 19th-century Polish prose;
– The biography, literary criticism, and correspondence of Kazimierz Kaszewski.
Dr. Bartosz SWOBODA
– research on the relationship between literature and the visual arts and architecture.
Dr. Joanna ZAGOŻDŻON-ŁYSZCZARZ
– research in the field of Old Polish literature.
Department of European Cultural Heritage Studies
Research Areas in the Department:
Department of German Literature, University of Opole
The Department of German-Language Literature at the Institute of Literary Studies was established following the reorganization of university structures in 2019; its origins date back to 1990, when the Institute of Germanic Philology was founded at our Alma Mater.
From the very beginning, research in German literary studies has been situated within both the general German studies and regional contexts. And it is precisely research projects related to the region, regionalism, the literature and culture of Silesia, as well as comparative studies, that constitute the main spectrum of research conducted at the Department of German Literature to this day.