M.A. programme in English Philology: First year of study: Methodology workshops — summer term 2025–2026
What is this list?
This is a list of methodology workshops (Polish: warsztaty metodologiczne) we intend to launch in the summer term (October–February) in our full-time M.A. programme in English philology (Filologia angielska) whose first year of study is the academic year 2025–2026. This list is intended for:
- Students at the Faculty of English who are about to enter the second term of the first year of their full-time M.A. programme: this is your reference point before your enrolment into the courses;
- Candidates for our full-time programmes: this list gives you a snapshot of what courses were on offer for the study cycle that started in October 2025.
How to navigate the list?
The list is sorted first by the discipline (linguistics precedes literary studies ) and then by the name of the teacher. The format of the entries is as follows: the title of the subject seminar, the name of the teacher, and the description of the course.
Linguistics
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Literary studies
Reading the More-than-Human: Ecocriticism and Posthumanism
prof. UAM dr hab. Paulina Ambroży
This methodological workshop introduces MA students to the critical intersections of ecocriticism, new materialism, and posthumanism, with a particular focus on how literature registers the entanglement of human and more-than-human worlds. We will explore climate grief, deep time, object-oriented ontology, transversality, and the technological gaze, asking how contemporary theory reshapes the reading of ecopoetry and ecological fiction. Through close reading, theoretical engagement, and seminar discussion, students will consider how texts reimagine agency, temporality, and interdependence across species and objects. Each week pairs foundational theoretical texts with short fiction and ecopoetry, offering both methodological grounding and opportunities for interpretive practice.
Objectives: By the end of the workshop, students will have an informed understanding of the dominant methodologies, representatives and current critical debates related to the Posthuman and Ecocritical Turn. They will also develop skills of critical thinking, literary analysis and academic discussion based on the theoretically informed readings of the assigned texts.
Requirements: Attendance, annotated and careful reading of the assigned texts; active participation in class discussion, one in-class essay at the end of the course.
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Postcolonial and diasporic methodologies
prof. UAM dr hab. Agnieszka Rzepa
The aim of the workshop is to familiarize students with major premises of postcolonial and diasporic studies as they apply to literature, and give them an opportunity to practice using postcolonial and diasporic frameworks in literary analysis. Postcolonial and diasporic literary theory and criticism are broad interdisciplinary approaches to literature, strongly rooted in historical and contemporary political, social and cultural processes. While the two approaches often come together, it is not always so: the field of postcolonial literary studies focuses on diverse aspects of processes related to colonialism/neocolonialism and decolonisation as they affect or are reflected in literature; while diasporic literary studies examines texts related in different ways to the scattering of diverse national, racial and ethnic groups of people all over the world, often (though not always) as a result or in connection to (post)colonial processes. We will use selected key concepts (such as hybridity, mimicry, subalternity, etc.) to enter and explore the broad and multifaceted fields.