Dr Karolina Zioło

MA (Warsaw), PhD (Sheffield) Honorary Research Fellow

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Biography

I received my MA degree from the University of Warsaw (2003). In 2004 I was awarded a British Council Chevening (Joseph Conrad) Scholarship to conduct research at the University of Sheffield for one semester. I have now completed my PhD at the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies. Recently, I have developed an online course for the advanced speakers of Polish: Polish for Foreigners sponsored by CEELBAS, and online exercises for students of all levels of Polish.

Research topic

My research attempts to present the significance and influence of Russian émigré and dissident literature for Polish readers of underground literature. It will also describe the similarities and differences in underground publishing in Poland and USSR in the 1970s and 1980s.

Seminar and conference papers

"From Internationalism to the European Union: an ideological change in the Polish post-communist party?" The Gosts of the Past: Everyday Life 20 Years After the Fall of Communism, Univeristy of East London, June 2009.
"How to tackle history and not kill it: a student battle with the past." Third CILASS (Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield) Staff-Student Conference - Inquire, Engage, Challenge and Change, March 2009. (With Luděk Knittl)
"Inquiry-Based Learning in Teaching a Foreign Language, Enquiry-Based Learning in Languages." The Univeristy of Manchester, September 2008.
"The free publishing market vs. the socialist state. The Polish Writers’ Union in the 1970s and 1980s." Writing under Socialism Past and Present: A Comparative Approach, Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures and School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Nottingham, July 2008.
“Who Were the Dissidents? The Problem of Definition”. Democracy vs. Authoritarianism. Political and Historical Context. International Conference at the University of Warsaw, July 2007.
“Wajda’s Man of Marble’s struggle with censorship.” New Waves New Cinemas Postgraduate Symposium, University of Leeds, July 2006. This paper will be published in the on-line journal e-Sharp

Publications

From Internationalism to the European Union: an ideological change in the Polish post-communist party? Communist and Post-Communist Studies 42/2009, pp. 253-264.
Interent in the language classroom, Języki obce w Szkole (Foreign Languages at School) 5/2004, pp. 67-69.
Web page in the language classroom .The project, Języki Obce w Szkole (Foreign Languages at School) 6/2004, pp 169-170.