Prof. Grażyna Bystydzieńska

Duty hours in the summer winter 2008/2009:

• Thursday, 13.00 - 14.30, room 226

Academic degrees:

• 1968 - MA in English, University of Warsaw
• 1974 - Ph.D., University of Marie Curie-Sklodowski, Lublin
• 1982 - Post-doctoral degree, University of Marie Curie-Sklodowski, Lublin
• 1992 - Professor
• 1996 - Full Professor

Professional career:

• 1968 - 1993 - Institute of English Studies, University of Marie Curie-Sklodowski, Lublin
• 1975 - 1993 - Head of the English Literature Department, University of Marie Curie - Sklodowski, Lublin
• 1984 - 1991 - Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of Marie Curie - Sklodowski, Lublin
• Since 1993 - works at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, 1996 - 1999 Chairman of Institute Council
• Since 1997 - Head of the English Literature Department, University of Warsaw

Vice-president of the Polish Association for the Study of English 1991-1993, president of the Polish Association for the Study of English 1994-1996 and 1996-1998, the member of the Senate of the University of Warsaw 2000-2003, Chairman of the Faculty Committee for Professorships. Chairman do uzup. Lecturing in Great Britain, France and Germany. Member of the Polish Association for the Study of English, International Association of the Professors of English, the English Association, Polish Association for the Eighteenth Century Studies, Lublin Scientific Society.
Awarded with Silver and Golden Cross of Merit.

Selected publications:

Books:

• The English Mock Heroic Poem of the 18th Century , PWN, Warszawa 1982
• Między Oświeceniem a Romantyzmem. Studium o twórczości Edwarda Younga, Lublin 1982
• W labiryncie prawdy. Studia o twórczości Lawrence'a Sterne'a, Lublin 1993
• Edward Young's Night Thoughts. Gdańsk 1995

Selected editions of books:

• The Poetic Persona. Studies in English Poetry, Lublin 1993
• Approaches to Literature nr 1, 2, 3 (2001, 2002, 2004)

Selected articles:

• O osiemnastowiecznych stylach odbioru poematu The Rape of the Lock A. Pope'a w Polsce, Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny, XXIX, 3-4, 1982, pp. 209-220
• Tristram Shandy: The Poetics of Space, w: Literature and Language in the Cultural Context, ed. K. Stamirowska, Z. Mazur, A. Walczuk, Kraków 1994, pp. 23-30
• Laurence Sterne and the Art of Gesture. The Semiotics of the Visual, w: Approaches to Fiction. PASE Studies and Monographs, vol.2, ed. L. Kolek, 1996, pp. 39-48
• Reflections on Description: the Landscape in Alexander Pope's Windsor Forest, w: Discourses of Literature: Studies in Honour of Alina Szala, ed. L. Kolek, W. Nowicki, Lublin 1997, pp. 81-88
• "Nature is not enough...?" The Poetical World of Patrick Kavanagh, w: From the Peripheries to the Centre. Essays in (Anglo-) Irish Literature, ed. J. Burzyńska, D. Stanulewicz, Lublin 2001, pp. 89-100
• Wawrzyniec Sterne: A Sentimental Journey in 19th Century Poland, The Shandean, vol. 13, 2002, pp. 47-53
• Sterne in Poland, w: The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe, ed. Peter de Voogd and John Neubauer, Thoemmes Continuum, London, New York 2004, pp. 154-164
• Crossing the Alps.The mountains, their perception and representation in 18th century literature, w: PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture, part one, ed. G. Bystydzieńska, E. Harris, P. Lyons, Warszawa 2005, pp. 45-51

Teaching experience:

• doctoral seminars, MA seminars
• courses in 18th century and 19th century English novel
• English romantic prose
• English 18th century poetry
• Anglo-Irish literature