Warsaw, 4 Nowy Swiat St. room 429 phone: (+48)(22) 55-314-15
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).