drPaulina Zagórska (Kolasińska)

zdjęcie: Paulina Zagórska
Assistant professor (adiunkt)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań 2010
  • M.A. in English, Poznań 2012
  • Postgraduate degree in teaching and pedagogy, Poznań 2017
  • Ph.D. in English, Poznań 2017
  • Postgraduate Degree in Gender Studies, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2024

Non-degree courses

  • Sound Changes in the History of English (Ph.D. course), University of Stavanger, Norway, 31 March – 4 April, 2014
  • Visiting research student at the University of Sheffield,1-5 December, 2014

Research interest

  • Old and Middle English morphology
  • Old and Middle English morphophonology
  • Manuscript studies
  • Medieval literacy and codicology
  • Gender studies
  • Historical sociolinguistics

Teaching experience

  • TEFL at university level
  • History of English
  • B.A. seminars in linguistics

Grants

  • National Science Centre (NCN) grant (2016/21/N/HS2/02601), 12th century impressions of Old English in forged documents as a source for the reconstruction of early Middle English (XII-wieczne wyobrażenia języka staroangielskiego w sfałszowanych dokumentach jako źródło w rekonstrukcji wczesnych stadiów języka średnioangielskiego), 2017-2020

Professional organisations

  • International Society for the Linguistics of English, 2016-
  • Stowarzyszenie Tłumaczy Literackich, 2018 -

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • Theory that matters: What practice after theory?, Łódź 2010
  • Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań, Poznań 2012
  • 11th Medieval English Studies Symposium, Poznań 2012
  • 8th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 8), Murcia 2013
  • 3rd Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English (CBDA-3), Amiens 2013
  • "Glosses and translations: The place of the Old English gloss of the Eadwine’s Cantenbury Psalter in the context of medieval English vernacularization of the Bible", 9th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 9), Wrocław 2015
  • "Early Middle English morphology: morphological innovations and archaisations in the Old English gloss to the Eadwine Canterbury Psalter", Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Poznan 2016
  • "Methodological challenges in historical linguistics: The case of twelfth-century forged English documents" (with Malwina Wiśniewska), Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań 2016 (poster) - 25-27.11.2016
  • "Forged texts as a source for linguistic research on the example of 12th century English documents" (with Malwina Wiśniewska), "Recovering the Past" conference, the University of York, 2017 - 2-3.06.2017
  • "The patronage of the Eadwine Psalter", History of English Language in Poznań (HEL-P) 2017, Poznań 2017
  • "Pragmatic perspective(s) on Old English wills and charters: Analysing 12th century forged documents", Poznań Linguistic Meeting 2017 (poster) (jointly with Malwina Wiśniewska)
  • "Trial and error. What corrections to the gloss can tell us: The case of the Old English gloss to the Eadwine Psalter", Glossing cultural change: Comparative perspectives on manuscript annotation, c. 600 - 1200 CE, Galway 21-22 June 2018
  • "Twelfth-century forged Old English legal documents and the post-Conquest England" (jointly with Malwina Wiśniewska), 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Edinburgh 27-31 August 2018
  • "Medieval texts in context: the case of the Eadwine Psalter", 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Edinburgh 27-31 August 2018
  • "The visual aspects of the Old English gloss to the Eadwine Psalter", 48th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Poznań 13-15 September 2018
  • "Unorthodox sources of Early Middle English", 11th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 11), Florence 5-8 February 2019
  • "Corrections to the Old English gloss to the Eadwine Psalter a source of 12th-century lexicon (?), Glossing from a comparative perspective", Marburg 6-7 June 2019
  • "Twelfth-century forged legal documents: linguistic aspects", Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts conference, 17-28 May 2021, Dublin

Other talks and presentations

  • Noc Naukowców na Wydziale Anglistyki (jointly with Kacper Łodzikowski and Mateusz Jekiel), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań 2013
  • "Martwe języki germańskie w popkulturze", XVIII Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki na Wydziale Anglistyki, Poznań 2015
  • "Rozmówki polsko-angielskie dla początkujących", XIX Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki na Wydziale Anglistyki, Poznań 2016
  • "Noc zbrodni na Wydziale Anglistyki, czyli mordercy listy piszą" (jointly with Malwina Wiśniewska), Noc Naukowców na Wydziale Anglistyki 2016
  • "Survivalowy przewodnik po anglo-saskiej Anglii", Noc Naukowców na Wydziale Anglistyki 2017
  • W poszukiwaniu straconego sensu, czyli najbardziej sensowna lekcja gramatyki angielskiej, jaką kiedykolwiek mieliście, XXI Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, 25 kwietnia 2018
  • Język jako lustro: jak historia odbija się w języku, XXII Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, 10 kwietnia 2019

Organizer of international conferences and congresses

  • History of English Language in Poznań (HEL-P) 2017, Poznań 2017

Honours

  • Award of the Head of the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University for the best M.A. thesis in linguistics, 2012

Editorial

  • Assistant Editor (linguistics), Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2015-