Research and teaching activities

My research activities

Linguistics

• Word formation in Russian and Polish (especially compounds)
• Language tendencies and language change
• Confixes
• Pragmatics
• Sociolinguistics
• Gender Studies / Gender Linguistics / Queer Linguistics
• Political correctness and sexism in language
• Discourse analysis
• Lexicography (mono- and bilingual dictionaries in Russian and Polish)

Translation Studies

• Translating legal documents
• Translation and lexicography (mono- and bilingual dictionaries of Russian, Polish, and German)
• Cross-language problems in translation
• Equivalence

My teaching activities

Uniwersytet Opolski (2008-2012)

Translation Studies

• Introduction into translation
• Analysing texts from the translator's point of view
• Translating technical texts (business, legal)
• Translating legal documents
• Interpretation
• Note-taking for interpreters
• Technical language and translation
• Cross-language problems in translation
• Cultural and intercultural aspects of translation
• Terminology and translation

Linguistics

• Contrastive grammar (Polish-German)
• Descriptive grammar
• Language varieties (lects) and non-standard language in Polish and German
• Lexicography

German as a Foreign Language

• German class (A1-C2)
• Grammar and style
• Text Production and creative writing
• Reading comprehension
• Language and culture
• Cultural aspects for teachers

Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (2012-2016)

Slawistics

• Russian/ Slavonic Linguistics (all held in Russian language)
  • Креативное словообразование между окказиональным и узуальным (proseminar, 2012/2013)
  • Фонетика, фонология и орфоэпия в русском языке (lecture with exercises, 2013)
  • Основы русского языковедения (proseminar, 2013/2014)
  • Gender Studies – Пол, род, гендер в языке. Введение в гендерную лингвистику (lecture with exercises, 2014)
  • Род и пол в грамматиках славянских языков (project-based seminar, 2014/2015)
  • Gender Studies – Пол и род в русских и польских грамматиках (lecture with exercises, 2015)
  • Введение в славянское языкознание (lecture, 2015/2016)
    
    
• Polish/ Slavonic Linguistics (all held in Polish language)
  • Academic style in Polish (lecture with exercises, 2015)

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) (since 2016)

• Slavonic Languages
  • Polish language class, A1-A2 (2016-2018)
    
    

Visiting Professorship

Slovenia: Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za prevajalstvo (May 2017) – Erasmus-Programme

Canada: University of Alberta, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, Wirth Institute (September 2015)

Italy: Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Mediazione Linguistica e di Studi Interculturali (April / May 2013) – Erasmus-Programme

Supervisor of theseses

• Dilafruz Khudoyberdieva: Gendernaja politika russkich kompanij. Wien 2016 (thesis, B.A.).
  
  
• Inna Machankova: Sex-Symbole und Stereotype in Anzeigenwerbungen der österreichischen und tschechischen Online- und Printmedien. Wien 2016 (thesis, B.A.).
  
  
• Ганнa Борисенковa: Стереотипы межродовых семейных отношений и распределение гендерных ролей на российском предприятии. Wien 2016 (thesis, B.A.).
  
  
• Irina Kinzner: Russlands Rückkehr zu traditionellen Geschlechterrollen. Eine kritische Diskursanalyse zu Putins Drei-Kind-Politik. Innsbruck 2015 (thesis, B.A.)
  
  
• Kamil Krzysztoforski: Die drei Farben. Übersetzungsprobleme bei der Untertitelung des Films "Weiß" (Biały) von Krzysztof Kieślowski aus dem Polnischen ins Deutsche. Opole 2010 (thesis, M.A.)
  
  
• Aleksandra Makowska: Literaturübersetzung und Übersetzungskritik. Zur Übersetzung des Romans "Der Vorleser" von Bernhard Schlink ins Polnische. Opole 2010 (thesis, M.A.)