Our research interests cover British literature and culture from the early Middle Ages until the 20th century. We co-edit the Peter Lang series “TEXT-MEANING-CONTEXT", in which 18 volumes have appeared so far. Visit the Peter Lang Text-Meaning-Context website at https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/TMC.
Our recently organised conferences and seminars include “The Creator and His Creature: 200 years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (2018) and “Romantic Interactions” (2019). In 2012-2019 the Department co-organised two Erasmus Intensive Programme projects, realised in a consortium of major European universities. Our students participated in international seminars on early modern literature and culture, and crises, conflicts and problems of today’s Europe and the world.
Main research topics
medieval drama
chivalric romance tradition
writings of the English mystics
religious iconography
medievalism in contemporary fantasy literature
Renaissance drama
reception of Shakespeare’s works in Polish literature and theatre
religious and secular poetry in 17th-century Britain
the 18th-century novel
interconnections between the novel, theatre and life writing from times the Restoration until Romanticism
Romantic literature and theatre
Polish-British cultural relations in 18th and 19th centuries
reception of 18th- and 19th-century British literature in Poland
the modernist novel
epistemology of the novel
philosophical and cultural aspects of twentieth-century poetry and drama
irony and the grotesque in English literature of the 20th century
literary translation from historical and cultural perspectives
Christian themes, motifs and imagery in English literature (prose, poetry, drama)