Prof. Barbara Kowalik

Duty hours in the zimowym semester 2008/2009:

• Thursday, 15.00 - 16.30

Biographical note:

• M.A. - 'The Struggle of Innocence and Experience in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience', Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin, 1980;
• Ph.D. - 'Man and the World in the Works of the Gawain-Poet in Relation to His Concept of the Text", University of Łódź, 1989;
• Examination for university professorship -Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin, 2002;
• Professorship at University of Warsaw, 2003;
• The British Council Scholarship - St. Hilda's College, Oxford, 1985/86;
• Visiting professor - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,1993;
• Visiting professor - University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1998.

Books published:

• A Woman's Pastoral: Dialogue with Literary Tradition in Barbara Pym's Fiction (Lublin: Wyd. UMCS, 2002);
• From Circle to Tangle: Space in the Poems of the 'Pearl' Manuscript (Lublin: Wyd. UMCS, 1997);
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Interpretations of British Literature 11 (Gdańsk: Wyd. Gdańskie, 1996)
• Pearl. Interpretations of British Literature 5 (Gdańsk: Wyd. Gdańskie, 1994)

Areas of scholarly interest:

• medieval English literature, language, and culture; theory of literature (esp. the Russian school of structural semiotics - Y. Lotman, M. Bakhtin, feminism, R. Girard); women writers and representations of women and gender in literature; religious and Biblical motifs in literature; American writers of Polish descent

Selected publications:

• "Artistry and Christianity in Pearl", REAL. The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, de Gruyter, vol. 4/1984, 1-34;
• "Late-Medieval Literary Theory in the Light of Some Modern Literary Concepts", Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, Wrocław, t. 33/1992, 71-102;
• "Traces of Romance Textual Poetics in the Non-Romance Works Ascribed to the Gawain-Poet", From Medieval to Medievalism, ed. J. Simons, London: Macmillan, 1992, 41-53;
• "A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym as a Church Novel", Approaches to Fiction ed. L. S. Kolek, Lublin: Folium, 1996, 141-160;
• "Gender in the Language of Literary Criticism in English and Polish", Essays in Poetics vol. 23/1998, 206-213;
• "Bakhtin's Author-Hero Theory for Literature Teaching", Papers in Literature, Language and Culture, ed. E. Gussmann et al., Lublin: KUL, 1998, 229-238;
• "The Pastoral Mode in the Novels of Barbara Pym". Systems, Genres, Conventions ed. A. Zgorzelski, Lublin: Folium, 1999, 119-152;
• "Cztery Marchewki i strucla z makiem" (o powieści Leslie Pietrzyk), Akcent, vol. 79-80, no.1-2/2000, 208-211;
• "Genre and Gender in Chaucer's Knight's Tale". Studies in Literature in Honour of Professor Irena Janicka-Świderska, ed. M. Edelson, Łódź: Wyd. UŁ, 2002, 100-110;
• "Extraterrestrial Point of View in Medieval Allegorism", Conventions and Texts ed. A. Zgorzelski, Gdańsk: Wyd. UG, 2003, 9-27;
• "An Alien Friend. On the Poetic Structure of How Christ Shall Come", British Drama Through the Ages and Medieval Literature ed. J. Uchman et al., 2003, 87-94;
• "Teaching Poetry Through Translation. The Case of Middle English Lyrics", ed. Leszek S. Kolek et al., Lublin: Wyd. UMCS, 2004, 155-164;
• "An Excellent Woman as Fool. A Bakhtinian Reading of Barbara Pym's Fiction", Approaches to Literature 3 ed. G. Bystydzieńska, Warsaw: UW, 2004, 115-126;
• "Addressing God in Middle English Lyrics", For the Loue of Inglis Lede, ed. Marcin Krygier et al., Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main-Berlin-Bern-Bruxelles-New York-Oxford-Wien. 2004, 149-159.

Courses taught:

• The Middle Ages - a Survey (103)
• Medieval Romance (116)
• Arthurian Literature (118)
• Medieval Allegorical Tradition
• Robin Hood and Other Outlaws (1020)
• Geoffrey Chaucer (202)
• The Cycle of the Holy Grail (217)
• English Medieval Mysticism (218)
• Literary Analysis of Selected Old English Poems (2002)
• A Literary Theory of the 20th Century - Bakhtin (2009)
• The Pastoral Ideal, Genres, and Mode in English Literature - Theory and Practice - from Medieval into Modern (2022)
• Lyric Poetry in Medieval England, Scotland, and Wales against the Background of European Tradition (21/fk/2002).