drJustyna Rogos-Hebda

Justyna Rogos-Hebda
Assistant professor (adiunkt)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań 2005
  • M.A. in English, Poznań 2007
  • PhD in English, Poznań 2011

Research interests

  • Manuscript studies
  • Queer medievalism(s)
  • Medieval gender and sexuality
  • Visual pragmatics
  • Historical multimodalities

Teaching experience

  • History of English
  • Academic writing
  • EFL (Speaking)
  • EFL (Grammar)
  • English phonetics and phonology
  • Introduction to manuscript studies
  • Introduction to the history of the book
  • English: Its history and modernity
  • Public Speaking
  • Social history of English
  • A queer history of English: Language beyond the norm

Grants/Scholarships

  • National Science Centre (NCN) post-doctoral grant (UMO-2012/05/B/HS2/03996): Latin abbreviations in Middle English literary manuscripts: evolution of forms and functions, 2013-2016
  • Ministry of Science and Higher Education doctoral grant (NR NN 104 17 9136): Scribes as editors: spelling systems in group-d manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale', 2009-2011
  • Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich 2008

Awards

  • Honourable mention: Richard M. Hogg Prize 2012 (for the article "Isles of systematicity in the sea of prodigality? Non-alphabetic elements in manuscripts of Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'")
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Rector's award (3rd grade) for excellence in teaching, 2014

Professional organizations

  • New Chaucer Society

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 6th International Conference on Middle English, Cambridge 2008
  • 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Munich 2008
  • 7th Medieval English Studies Symposium, Poznań 2008
  • 16th International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2009
  • Foreign Influences on Medieval English, Warsaw 2009
  • 9th Medieval English Studies Symposium, Poznań 2010
  • Early English Texts Society Conference, Oxford 2010
  • 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Pecs 2010
  • 7th International Conference on Middle English, Lviv 2011
  • 24th Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM), Salamanca 2012
  • 11th Medieval English Studies Symposium (MESS 11), Poznań 2012
  • 3rd Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English (CBDA-3), Amiens 2013
  • 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Leuven 2014
  • "Now you see it, now you don't: Scribal abbreviations on a digitized manuscript page", 9th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 9), Wrocław 2015
  • 9th Studies in the History of the English Language Conference (SHEL-9), Vancouver 2015
  • "Charting the ’visual dialect’ of Harley 2278", First AMC Symposium (Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, 9-10 June 2016)
  • "To err is scribal: Correction practices in two manuscripts of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes", 20th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society (Queen Mary University of London, 10-15 July 2016)
  • "The visual text: Abbreviations vis-à-vis otiose strokes in British Library Royal MS 18 D II of the Siege of Thebes", 19th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (University of Duisburg-Essen, 22-26 August 2016)
  • "Abbreviations as pragmatic markers: scribal practices in BL Harley MS 1706 of Richard Rolle’s Form of Perfect Living and De Emendatione Vitae", 10th International Conference on Middle English (Stavanger, 31.05-2.06. 2017)
  • Twenty-First Biennial International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Toronto, Canada, 10-15 July, 2018 (paper: "Toeing the line: on transcribing horizontal strokes in English and Latin MSS of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio Vitae")
  • 48th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 13-15 September 2018  (paper: "Pragmatics, visual discourse and pre-modern texts: on context and co-text in Middle English manuscripts")
  • Historical English Analysis and Research Tradition (HEART) Conference; University of Warsaw, April 11-12, 2025 „Making sense(s) in the Middle Ages: manuscripts, multimodality and meaning”
  • Culture and Cognition in Language 3, University of Rzeszów, April 30-31 2023, „Metaphors, multimodality and medieval manuscripts: on multisensory cognition in pre-modern textuality”

Other talks and presentations

  • „Brzydkie książki”, czyli co można wyczytać z brudu, bazgrołów i błędów książkowych”, Noc Anglistów 2023
  • „Bądź najlepszą wersją siebie: (prawie) tysiąc lat poradników dla kobiet” (jointly with Paulina Zagórska), Noc Anglistów 2026

Organizer of conferences and congresses

  • 4th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, Poznań, 18–21. September 2016
  • session organiser (with Paulina Zagórska): In the eye of the beholder: tracing (socio)linguistic change through visual texts, 48th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 13-15 September 2018
  • Pride & Prejudice: Marginalised Voices in the History (and Present) of English, Poznań 2026

Organizational

  • Coordinator of History of English Language Lovers Reading Group

Editorial

  • Assistant to the Editor, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2010-2013
  • Assistant Editor (linguistics), Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2013-2015