In 2020, the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University established a partnership agreement for academic exchange with the Faculty of Letters at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile) in Santiago – one of the flagship universities in Latin America and the Caribbean, as confirmed by the QS World University Rankings 2025 [external link].
Recent Developments and Academic Visits
In June 2025, the Faculty of English hosted Prof. Francisco Orellana, PhD [external link], Vice Dean for Student Affairs at the Faculty of Humanities, UC Chile, who visited Poznań for the second time to refine the principles of scientific collaboration and student exchange between Poznań and Santiago. His first visit took place in March 2024, during which Prof. Orellana, a specialist in phonetics, conducted classes and was hosted by Prof. Magdalena Wrembel, PhD, from the Department of Contemporary English Language.
During his second visit, Prof. Orellana was hosted by Prof. Jacek Fabiszak, PhD, from the Department of Studies in Culture and held a series of highly productive meetings with the Faculty authorities. He discussed the development of inter-faculty scientific cooperation with Vice Dean for Cooperation and Development, Dr. Katarzyna Jankowiak, and addressed current student affairs with Vice Dean for Student Affairs, Dr. Katarzyna Remiszewska. Prof. Orellana also participated in a strategic meeting with Dr. Katarzyna Turska, Director of the AMU Foreign Language Teaching Centre, and Spanish language instructor Karolina Żok-Plackowska, MA. He held consultations with numerous colleagues from the Faculty, with whom he has established strong professional ties.
Academic Exchange Summary: Poznań–Santiago 2020–2025
November 2018: Dr. Urszula Kizelbach visited UC Chile at the invitation of Dr. Eric Rundquist, delivering lectures on stylistics and literature as part of the series “Dentro de la mente de los personajes ficticios: El lenguaje de la conciencia en la ficción” (“Inside the Mind of Fictional Characters: The Language of Consciousness in Literature”).
January 2022: Dr. Eric Rundquist, as part of ERASMUS+, conducted stylistics classes for third-year undergraduate students at the Faculty of English and delivered a lecture titled “Mimesis of Mind: Stylistics and Stream of Consciousness Narration.” His visit significantly contributed to the promotion of interdisciplinary stylistics courses at the Faculty of English. The beginnings of this cooperation were described in the Poetics and Linguistics Association newsletter PARLANCE 2021 (PARLANCE 2021 issue 1 [external link to a PDF file]) (pp. 8–9) and PARLANCE 2023 (Parlance Spring 2023 [external link to a PDF file]) (pp. 15–17).
Summer semester 2022: Under the ERASMUS+ student exchange, Javiera Isidora Castro Acevedo, the top candidate selected through a UC Chile competition, attended stylistics and literature classes at the Faculty of English and delivered a lecture entitled “Digging up my roots: Chilean tradition, history and folklore” for the Culture Vultures student society.
May/June 2022: Dr. Tomasz Skirecki, a specialist in American culture, visited UC Chile, delivering a series of workshops and lectures, including “Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) as an Icon of American Popular Culture” and “Native American Lexical Borrowings in American English as Reflections of Cultural Contact and Misunderstandings.”
October 2023: Dr. Elżbieta Wilczyńska from the Department of Studies in Culture visited UC Chile, delivering lectures and classes on US culture and comparing teaching methodologies in Polish and Chilean universities.
Summer semester 2023: Michał Sobieralski, a first-year MA student at the Faculty of English, returned from a semester exchange at UC Chile.
March 2024: Prof. Małgorzata Kul, PhD, visited UC Chile, delivering a series of classes and lectures on phonetics and phonostylistics. Another student, Agnieszka Lenkiewicz (first-year BA), also returned from an exchange in Santiago that year.
June 2025: Dr. Marcin Turski and Dr. Urszula Kizelbach travelled to Chile. Dr. Turski led translation classes and public speaking workshops and held consultations with Prof. María Angélica Kaulen. Dr. Kizelbach conducted literature classes and consultations for students in courses led by Prof. Allison Ramay and Prof. Javiera Lorenzini Raty, and held meetings with Prof. Orellana.
Winter semester 2025: Another ERASMUS+ scholarship recipient from Santiago, María Jesús Alejandra Hernández Hernández, visited Poznań. Her fruitful stay at UAM has already been described on the Faculty website [link to content in Polish].
Opportunities and Further Collaboration
We warmly invite all staff members to participate in the ERASMUS+ programme and to consider academic visits to UC Chile. Please follow updates from the Faculty Erasmus Office, which are sent to your email inboxes.
Researchers interested in delivering an online lecture for UC Chile students in the next academic year are encouraged to contact Dr. Urszula Kizelbach.
We will continue to keep you informed about further initiatives both on the Faculty website and via social media.
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