M.A. programme in English Philology: First year of study: Subject seminars — summer term 2025–2026

What is this list?

This is a list of subject seminars (Polish: seminaria przedmiotowe) we intend to launch in the summer term (February–June) 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:

1. 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 subject seminars;
2. Candidates for our full-time programmes: this list gives you a snapshot of what subject seminars 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 subject seminar.

Linguistics

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prof. UAM dr hab. Małgorzata Fabiszak

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dr Agnieszka Lijewska

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dr Magdalena Zabielska

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Literary studies

Multicultural Canada

prof. dr hab. Dagmara Drewniak

This seminar will be devoted to the study and discussion of the most important facts, myths and ideas concerning Canadian history, culture, and literature. In order to illustrate the problems, we will read and discuss a few poems, short stories and prose by Canadian authors in order to give students interested in Canadian literature as well as widely understood field of literary and cultural studies a possibility to supplement and broaden their knowledge. The overall aim of the seminar is to expand students’ knowledge concerning literary tradition of multicultural Canada. This concept of multicultural Canada is going to be rendered through a selection of works which vary in style, subject-matter and origin of their authors allowing students to appreciate the diversity of CanLit. A range of topics is going to be taken into consideration and reflected in the selected texts and in-class discussions, among them: national mythology, feminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, and cross-diasporic encounters.

Literature adapted: The case of Shakespeare’s Macbeth

prof. UAM dr hab. Jacek Fabiszak

The aim of the course will be to look at Shakespeare’s Macbeth and analyse the plethora of ways and media/forms of art into which the tragedy has been adapted: from page to stage, screen, (comic book) panel, animation, novel, etc. We will first discuss the nature of Shakespeare’s tragedy and how Macbeth (does not) fit in the scientific model, then we will read some theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of Shakespeare adaptation, and, finally, students will be asked to choose an adaptation and prepare a short presentation which will contain an analysis of the adaptation: its formal elements (change of medium and its consequences) and the adaptor’s strategies.

The competences and skills that the course aims to develop include close reading of a literary text, awareness of theoretical approaches to it, analysing the text’s cultural afterlives.

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prof. UAM dr hab. Wiesław Kuhn

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