{"id":8945,"date":"2024-05-10T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T11:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/directions-and-areas-of-scientific-research\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:45:31","slug":"directions-and-areas-of-scientific-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/directions-and-areas-of-scientific-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Directions and Areas of Scientific Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Directions and Areas of Scientific Research<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Department of French and Francophone Literature, University of Opole<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The research interests of the Department\u2019s faculty include French literature of the second half of the 19th century (the works of \u00c9mile 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\u2019s writing, cultural and gender identity, otherness, transgression). The research interests of the unit\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Department of English-Language Literatures<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The research topics of the Department\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Department of Slavic Literatures, University of Opole<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Within the Department of Slavic Literatures, research is primarily conducted in the following areas:<\/p>

  • Czech literary studies, including fantasy literature, \u00e9migr\u00e9 writing, contemporary malady discourse in Central Europe, and representations of the past in contemporary literature (the 19th century, St. John of Nepomuk, the Baroque);<\/li>
  • applied literary studies in the field of teaching Polish as a foreign language;<\/li>
  • research on the works and reception of Joseph Conrad.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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    Department of Polish Literature, University of Opole<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    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:<\/p>\n

    Sabina BRZOZOWSKA-DYBIZBA\u0143SKA, Ph.D., Prof. at the University of Opole:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

    \u2013 the prose and journalistic works of Tadeusz Rittner.<\/p>\n

    Dr. Ma\u0142gorzata BURZKA-JANIK<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2013 Romantic literature (from a comparative perspective);<\/p>\n

    \u2013 the writings of Tomasz August Olizarowski (monograph in preparation: Frenzy and Mysticism: The Poetic World of Tomasz August Olizarowski<\/em>; editorial work on the second edition of Poems<\/em>).<\/p>\n

    Dr. Marek DYBIZBA\u0143SKI, Prof. at the University of Opole<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2013 Romantic literature (drama, theater);<\/p>\n

    \u2013 Mythology;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 Genetic analysis of dramatic texts;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 19th-century theater criticism.<\/p>\n

    Dr. Adrian GLE\u0143, Prof. at the University of Opole<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2013 20th-century literary theories (hermeneutics, the Geneva School);<\/p>\n

    \u2013 the relationship between literature and philosophy (Martin Heidegger\u2019s views on art and literature);<\/p>\n

    \u2013 history of 20th-century literary criticism;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 the writings of Julian Kornhauser, Feliks Netz, Wojciech Kass, and Andrzej Stasiuk<\/p>\n

    \u2013 logocentrism in 20th- and 21st-century Polish poetry.<\/p>\n

    Dr. Maria ROWI\u0143SKA-SZCZEPANIAK, Professor at the University of Opole:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2013 Old Polish parenetic literature in socio-ideological contexts;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 Dominican preaching in the post-Tridentine era;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 Old Polish hagiographic literature;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 the problem of intellectual vision in the religious literature of the Polish Baroque;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 early literature from a long-term perspective.<\/p>\n

    Prof. Aneta MAZUR, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2013 Realist literature of the second half of the 19th century in Poland and Europe;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 The works of Adalbert Stifter;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 The theme of melancholy;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 The tradition of the Ukrainian school in 19th-century Polish prose;<\/p>\n

    \u2013 The biography, literary criticism, and correspondence of Kazimierz Kaszewski.<\/p>\n

    Dr. Bartosz SWOBODA<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2013 research on the relationship between literature and the visual arts and architecture.<\/p>\n

    Dr. Joanna ZAGO\u017bD\u017bON-\u0141YSZCZARZ<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u2013 research in the field of Old Polish literature.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Department of European Cultural Heritage Studies<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Research Areas in the Department:<\/p>\n

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    • European cultural heritage in the context of Polish-Italian relations during the Renaissance,<\/li>\n
    • the cultural and historical background of the stay of citizens of the First Polish Republic in Padua in the 16th\u201318th centuries,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      • normative literary writings from antiquity to the 19th century,<\/li>\n
      • literature, philosophy, and aesthetics of the French Enlightenment,<\/li>\n
      • Old Polish military writings<\/li>\n
      • Polish and European genealogy from the 16th to the 20th century,<\/li>\n
      • archival materials as a source in literary studies,<\/li>\n
      • the development of physical culture from the 16th to the 19th century in the light of archival materials and literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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        Department of German Literature, University of Opole<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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        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.<\/p>\n

        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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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        Directions and Areas of Scientific Research Department of French and Francophone Literature, University of Opole The research interests of the Department\u2019s faculty include French literature of the second half of the 19th century (the works of \u00c9mile Zola), 20th- and 21st-century French literature (in particular the prose of Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Michel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8945","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8945\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inol.uni.opole.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}