The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Research at the Faculty of Humanities

Ongoing research at the Faculty of Humanities includes:

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES

• Celtic Languages: Structure and History
• Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• Teaching English to the Blind

DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES

• Comparative German-Slavic Grammar
• German Language Understood Structurally
• History of German and Austrian Literatures: 17th - 20th Centuries
• Literature of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic)

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

• Rhetoric of Antiquity and Greek Tragedy
• Scholarly Language in Ancient Greek Manuscripts
• Greek and Latin Linguistics
• Literature and Culture of Christian Antiquity
• Latin Literature in Poland from the 15th - 17th Centuries

DEPARTMENT OF POLISH STUDIES

• History of Polish Literature from the 10th - 20th Centuries (with special attention to religious literature)
• Early and Contemporary Polish Religious Language
• Literature and Language in the Polish-Russian Borderlands
• Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language
• Literary Axiology
• Jewish Literature in Poland
• Relations Between Polish Literature and German, English, American, French, Italian and Scandinavian Literatures
• Translation Theory

DEPARTMENT OF ROMAN STUDIES

• Psycholinguistic Considerations in Teaching Foreign Languages
• History of French Literature

DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES

• Eastern Slavic Religious Literature
• Problems of Translation
• Comparative Grammar of the Slavic Languages
• History of Literature in the Polish-Eastern Slavic Borderlands
• Eastern Slavic Émigré Literatures

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

• Structural and institutional history of the Catholic Church
• History of Mentalities (e.g. of the Middle Ages, of the XV-XVIII centuries)
• Christian Social Movements in 19th and 20th Century Europe
• Religious Minorities in Poland (in the Polish-Russian Borderlands)
• Social Communication in Old Poland
• Polish-Spanish Diplomatic Relations

DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY

• Early Christian, Medieval and Contemporary Iconography and Religious Art
• History of Doctrines of Art (18th - 20th Centuries)
• Armenian, Irish and Celtic Art