European University Association

ul. Rejtana 16 B
35-959 Rzeszów
tel. +48 17 872 12 14
english@univ.rzeszow.pl

Short History

The Chair of English Philology was founded in 1995. In the 2000/2001 academic year the Chair was transformed into the Institute of English Studies. There are three departments: Department of Applied Linguistics, Department of Theoretical Linguistics, Department of Literary and Culture Studies.

The Institute conducts a-three-year BA course for regular students and a-two-year MA course for both regular and extramural students.

Since 2000 the Institute has been publishing a journal Studia Anglica Resoviensia, since 2005 available only in an electronic version.

Partners of Academic Co-operation:

• national: Uniwersity of Wrocław, University of Łódź; Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, UMCS in Lublin;
• international:
1. within Erasmus:
• Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid West-Vlaanderen, Kortrijk (Belgium)
• Universita Degli Studi di Lecce (Italy)
• University of Oradea (Romania)
• West University of Timisoara ( Romania)
• Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha (Spain)
• University in Vigo (Spain)
• Prešov University (Slovakia)
• University of Washington (USA)
• University of Glasgow (Great Britain);
2. on the individual basis: University of Glasgow (Wielka Brytania), University of Nothingham (Great Britain), University in Seattle (USA), University in Leuwen (Belgium).
   
   

Prof. Grzegorz A. Kleparski Ph.D.
Head of the Institute of English Studies

Agnieszka Uberman Ph.D.
Deputy Head responsible for regular studies

Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko Ph.D.
Deputy Head responsible for extramural studies

Agnieszka Szczepańska-Pączek
secretary

Academic Staff

Prof. Lucyna Falkiewicz - Wille Ph.D.
Prof. Teodor Hrehovčik Ph.D.
Prof. Grzegorz A. Kleparski Ph.D.
Prof. Pawol Štekauer Ph.D.
Prof. Oksana Weretiuk Ph.D.

The Institute employs 15 persons with doctoral degrees and 6 assistants

Fields of Academic Research:

1. Theoretical and applied linguistics: lexicology, lexical and historical semantics, pragmatics, lexicography, grammaticography, translation theory, derivational and lexical morphology, methodology of English language teaching;
2. Literary studies: theory of literature, history of English and American literature;
3. Culture and history of the English-speaking countries;