American Studies Research Unit: Language and Culture

Scholarly interests:

• American studies
• American experimental film and video
• American cinema
• independent cinema
• new media

Teaching:

• Cultural studies of English speaking countries
• British and American film (incl. mainstream/Hollywood, independent and experimental film)

Projects:

As PI:

• Gazing Through Distorted Lenses: Landscape and Travelogue Forms in Selected Works of American Avant-garde and Experimental Film and Video (1950–1980), 2017-2018 (funded by the Terra Foundation Research Travel Grant to the United States, grant no. 0614-4-3b)
• Lost highways, forgotten travels: The road movie in the post-war American avant-garde and experimental film through the lens of women and men filmmakers, 2019-2023 (funded by National Science Center within the SONATA 14 program, grant no. UMO-2018/31/D/HS2/01553)
• An animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American experimental ecocinema, 2024-2027 (funded by National Science Center within the OPUS 25 program, grant no. UMO-2023/49/B/HS2/00653

As a curator:

• special program at 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival (funded by AAFF)
• touring program of Jon Behren’s films (funded by the Interbay Cinema Society)

more information to follow soon

Scholarly interests:

• American society and culture
• Native American Studies
• Australian and New Zealand Studies
• Indigenous Australian Studies
• Transnational social movements

Teaching:

• Cultural Studies of English-speaking Countries
• Native American Studies
• Australian and New Zealand society
• Canadian Life and Institutions
• Selected issues in Ethics and Religious Studies

Projects:

• ‘Indigenous food sovereignty in Australia’, 2022-2023, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University in Melbourne. Funding: Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange’s Bekker Program.(BPN/BEK/2021/1/00455)
• ‘Indigenous food sovereignty in the USA’, Spring semester 2016, International Forum for US Studies (IFUSS), University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. Funding: IFUSS.
• ‘Indigenous higher education in Australia’, Sep.-Oct. 2015, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Funding: "Unikatowy Absolwent - Możliwości" (AMU).
• ’Indigenous higher education at Haskell Indian Nations University’, Fall semester 2011, Kansas University, Lawrence. Funding: European Society for the Study of English 2011 Bursary.

Scholarly interests:

• Sociolinguistics
• Cultural linguistics
• Feminist theories
• Language acquisition
• Language in sports

Teaching:

• Freelance teaching
• TEFL in primary and secondary schools
• English as Foreign Language (Integrated Skills)

Projects:

Dylewski Radoslaw, Magdalena Bator i Joanna Rabęda (in press). “I remain(s)” and “but remain(s)”: Variation in the use of the 3rd person singular marker in American private letters. In: Hans Sauer / Piotr Chruszczewski Mostly Medieval: Essays in Memory of Jacek Fisiak. San Diego, AE Academic Publishing

Scholarly interests:

• Semantics of English grammar
• Sociolinguistics of English grammar
• Teaching English grammar
• History of English grammar
• English sociophonetics
• Language corpora in TEFL

Teaching:

• EFL Grammar
• EFL American Pronunciation
• General EFL (all levels)
• CALL training

Projects:

• E-teacher of Science (2010-2013)
• ELSE - Erasmus Project (2018-2021)

Scholarly interests:

• American and British civilization
• Political culture of English-speaking countries
• History of English-speaking countries
• Cultures in contact
• Sport in culture

Teaching:

• History of English-speaking countries
• British and American life and institutions
• Australian and New Zealand life and institutions
• British and American politics
• Religion in the British Isles and North America
• European integration
• EU institutions
• International organizations

Scholarly interests:

• US literature
• intertextuality
• literary criticism
• teaching and practice of translation and interpreting

Teaching:

• history of American literature - classes, lectures, master's seminars
• history of British literature - classes
• theory of literature - classes, lectures, seminars analysis of literary texts - seminars
• translation theory, literary translation - master's seminar
• translation - legal texts - international, commercial, constitutional law
• translation - texts relating to the European Union
• introduction to translation and interpreting
• translation strategies
• consecutive interpreting
• simultaneous interpretation
• liaison interpretation
• community interpreting - postgraduate students
• specialist translation - postgraduate students
• translation and interpretation as a profession
• selected elements of English literature - postgraduate students
• culture and history of countries of the English language
• practical English language training: AE phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, integrated skills
• public speaking practice

Projects:

• National Science Centre grant, Opus-9 Programme: The influence of translation direction on its process. Lead researcher: Prof. Bogusława Whyatt, Faculty of English, AMU Poznań, 2016-2018.
• Grant No. 21H 17 0302 85 of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Translation into English of Z. Ogonowski's book Socinianism, PWN. Lead researcher: Prof. Danilo Facca, IFiS PAN, 2018-2021
• Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, no. 507/P-DUN/2016. Lead researcher: Prof. Elżbieta Wesołowska, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU Poznań, 2016-2017
• Grant of the Polish Society of Authors and Composers (ZAiKS) for the translation of a monograph of Igor Mitoraj’s oeuvre, 2017

Scholarly interests:

• History and development of (American) English
• 19th-century Southern American English
• literary dialect
• (historical) morphology
• lexicography

Projects:

• “Gender paradox and prescriptivism in 18th-century England based on The Bluestocking Society" (leader) – 2021-2022; funded by the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" (ID-UB).
• "Verifying the faithfulness of the portrayal of mid-19th century literary Southern dialect in Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters by Hardin E. Taliaferro" (participant, PI: Radosław Dylewski) - 2021-2023; funded by the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" (ID-UB).