Grants to our researchers from the Faculty of Letters
27 of our researchers will receive a total of more than 40 and a half million PLN for the realization of their projects in the recently concluded OPUS 26 and SONATA 19 competitions of the National Science Centre (NCN). Among them are scholars from the Faculty of Letters, who will receive three grants.
Dr Marcin Wągiel will receive PLN 1,620,892.00 from Opus 26 for his research ‘Wyrażenia kolektywne i syngulatywne w językach świata’ (eng. Collectives and singulatives across languages).
Marcin Wągiel is a formal linguist specialising primarily in research on the universal properties of form and meaning of natural language expressions.
As dr Wągiel introduces himself: I deal primarily with the morphosemantic analysis of linguistic phenomena in the field of number, countability, generality and part-whole relations, often in a comparative approach and with the application of modern typological, corpus and experimental research methodologies. The OPUS 26 project will conduct research on the structure and semantics of collective and syngulatory expressions in world languages.
From Sonata 19 for the research ‘Bloomsburczycy w Warszawie: Modernistyczne sieci wydawnicze i Grupa Bloomsbury w międzywojennej Polsce’ (eng. Bloomsburians in Warsaw: Modernist Publishing Networks and the Bloomsbury Group in Interwar Poland), dr Paulina Pająk will in turn receive PLN 712,967.00.
Paulina Pająk works at the Institute of English Studies. Her research and publications focus on interwar culture, literary modernism, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group – from modernist publishing networks to references in contemporary culture. She is co-author and co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature. She is a member of the International Virginia Woolf Society, the International E. M. Forster Society and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.
The project ‘Bloomsburians in Warsaw: Modernist Publishing Networks and the Bloomsbury Group in Interwar Poland’ – drawing on the contributions of new modernist studies, book history and press studies – aims to explore the leading role of modernist networks in the cultural transfer and reception of British modernism, and the Bloomsbury Group in particular, in interwar Poland. These global networks included publishing houses, newspapers and magazines, as well as a variety of cultural mediators – publishers, translators, literary agents, journalists, critics, reviewers, academics and booksellers. In turn, the mediators developed various strategies to bring new experimental works to the local and international literary market. – The project will also attempt to fill research gaps regarding the activities of Polish modernist publishing houses whose archives were lost during World War II and cultural mediators who disseminated the Polish avant-garde aesthetic in the UK, our researcher announces.
From Sonata 19, for his research ‘Mentalność w epoce przemian: historiografia hellenistyczna i jej odbiorcy’ (eng. Mentality in the Age of Transition: Hellenistic Historiography and its Audiences), dr Marcin Kurpios will receive PLN 264,134.00.
Dr Marcin Kurpios, assistant professor at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, developed his research technique under the guidance of prof. Marek Winiarczyk, the supervisor of his doctoral thesis. An expanded version of this dissertation was recently published in the renowned Tyche series (The Reception of Thucydides in the Theory and Practice of Hellenistic Historiography; Vienna 2021).The researcher has published articles in scholarly journals of international scope, e.g. in the prestigious Transactions of the American Philological Association, and has repeatedly received fellowships and grants to conduct research at scientific institutes in Vienna, Geneva, Oxford, Rome and London, among others.
As part of the SONATA project, Dr Kurpios will attempt to answer the question of how selected works by Hellenistic historians reflect the structural features of the worldview of their audiences. – The project combines in an innovative way the conceptual apparatus from the borderline of philosophy, anthropology and psychology with traditional methods of analysing ancient texts – he emphasises.
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