Research

The Institute conducts research in two major disciplines: linguistics and literary studies. In terms of the latter, main research areas include:

• the history of Polish literature, with a special interest in periods such as Enlightenment, Romanticism, Positivism, Young Poland and literature of the interwar period,
• migrant literature, Polish literature abroad and foreign literature in Polish translations,
• literature of the Eastern Borderlands,
• contemporary literature and journalism.

Additional research projects are focused on the history of Polish journalism, national myths and legends, literary biographies and autobiographies, anthropology of literature, theory of graphic novels and comic books, media forms and genres, literature and art in school teaching.

Linguistic research at the Institute concentrates on studying the contemporary Polish language, pragmatic linguistics, cultural and social aspects of communication (especially the language of media and politics), onomastics, the language of children and adolescents, and rural language.