mgrEwa Olszewska

Ewa Olszewska
Wykładowczyni (Lecturer)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań, 2014
  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2016

Research interests

  • Cognitive linguistics
  • Metaphor theory
  • Discourse analysis
  • Social semiotics
  • Art and Language

Teaching experience

  • TEFL at university level (Integrated Skills, Writing, Grammar)

Scholarships

  • Erasmus, Gent University, Belgium 2014/2015
  • Erasmus, Université Paul-Valéry III, Montpellier, France, 2018/2019

Honours and awards

  • Praeceptor Laureatus, AMU Rector's Best Teacher of the Year Award, 2024

Research grants

  • ESSE Bursary, Type A, (2018) for the project “Understanding discourses of art. A reception study” at The Tubman Museum in Macon (GA) and High Museum of Art in Atlanta (GA), February 2019

Research projects

  • “Her Story – Her Space – Her Balkans. Interdisciplinary research on the construction of female identity in the Balkans”. College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities (MISH), University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, in association with the University of Belgrade and Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, May 2011

Professional organizations

  • International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM)
  • Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE)
  • European Association for the Study of English (ESSE)
  • Cultural Literacy in Europe (CLE)

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • “Methodological challenges in the analysis of 3D artworks as texts of culture: cognitive linguistic approach”. Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP2016), University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Nov 2016
  • “Small Forms of Big Forms: The Analysis of Catalog Photographs of Three-Dimensional Art Forms”. Small Forms Conference, University of Łódź, Łódź, June 2016
  • “Socio-historical micro and macro context of DHA as ecology for the interpretation of metaphor meaning in 3D art”. RaAM 6th Specialized Seminar, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, May 2017
  • "Socio-historical micro and macro context of DHA as ecology for the interpretation of metaphor meaning in 3D art”. (Inter)cultural perspectives on language and the mind conference (ICPLM 2017), Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Sept 2017
  • “Understanding the metaphoricity of artworks with MUCADA (Multimodal Critical Analysis of Discourse of Art)” 11th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO), University of Córdoba Spain, Oct 2018
  • “Understanding discourse of art - a reception study report”, 28th PASE Conference Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, June 2019
  • “If art could speak what would it say? Analyzing discourse of art with cognitive linguistic tools”, CLE 2020 — Research in the Arts, the Arts in Research Symposium organized by Cultural Literacy in Europe Group in cooperation with University of Łódź, May 2020
  • “Figuration in the discourses of art: A reception study report”, 5th International Conference of Figurative Thought and Language (FTL5) Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, October 2020
  • “Narrative triggers: Metonymy and metaphor in the process of recovering temporality in atemporal representations”, 14th International Conference of Researching and Applying Metaphor Association (RaAM) Metaphor and Space, University of Vilnius, Vilnius, June 2021

Workshops

  • “Language Contact in Contemporary Europe”. Erasmus Summer School, University of Greifswald, Germany, Aug 2014
  • “Working with naturally occurring and elicited data in gender and language study” by Prof. Jane Sunderland, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Apr 2016
  • “The Conversation Analytic Role-play Method: Creating change with conversation analysis” by Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, YLMP 2016, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Nov 2016
  • “Enacting Metaphor in Everyday Life” by Ray Gibbs and Thomas Wiben Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, May 2017
  • “Analytic 'gaze' vs 'glance' in doing discourse analysis” by Prof. Srikant Sarangi, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, June 2017
  • “The PhD Course: Doing your PhD: Thinking, doing and writing” by Prof. Jane Sunderland, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Mar/Apr 2019
  • International Study Program Erasmus+ organized by ELSE (Eco/logical Learning and Simulation Environments) Association - Milan University of Technology, Milan, February 2020

Other talks and presentations

  • “Her Story – Her Space – Her Balkans. Interdisciplinary research on the construction of female identity in the Balkans”. College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities (MISH), University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, June 2011
  • „Szaleńcy, dziwacy, samotnicy: twórcy literatury amerykańskiej”. BLASt Reading Group, Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki (Poznań Festival of Science and Art), University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Apr 2014
  • “W jaki sposób werbowizualny język trójwymiarowych dzieł sztuki może pomóc grupom mniejszościowym zdobyć władzę symboliczną? Rola komunikacji multimodalnej w procesie walki o władzę”. Sympozjum: Tekst, dyskurs, komunikacja międzykulturowa (Symposium: Text, discourse, intercultural communication) – in memoriam Prof. Anny Duszak (1950-2015), Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Nov 2016
  • “Rola komunikacji multimodalnej w procesie walki o władzę”, Wrocławskie Kolokwium Polonistyczne 2016. Słowo w kulturze, Polish Philology Institute, University of Wrocław, Dec 2016
  • "Zastosowanie językoznawczych metod badań w analizie dzieł sztuki jako multi-modalnych tekstów kultury”, presentation delivered at the staff meeting of the Art History Institute, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Dec 2016
  • “How does art talk? Analyzing discourse of art with cognitive linguistic tools”, presentation delivered at the meeting of EMMA Institute of Anglophone Studies (Études Montpelliéraines Du Monde Anglophone), University of Paul-Valéry in Montpellier, France, Dec 2018

Organiser of conferences/workshops

  • Workshop organizer at Konferencja Języki ODNoWA: Komunikacja; title: "Crazy quilt - warsztat interaktywny", Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, November 2019
  • Member of the PCLA Conference Organizing Committee, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Sept 2018

Volunteering work

  • 11th conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 2016), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, July 2016, Public Relations assistant
  • 46th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2016), University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Sept 2016, Student helper