CURRICULUM VITAE
Jolanta W. Wawrzycka, Ph.D.
Professor of English, Department of English, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142
Office: (540) 831 5176   E-mail:
jolanta@radford.edu

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in English, 1987, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Major: Modern British Literature. Minors: Literary Theory/Criticism; Drama/Theatre. Written and oral exams in all three areas. Dissertation: "The Labyrinth Patterns in the Language of Fiction: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and José Donoso's El obsceno pàjaro de la noche in Terms of Hermeneutic Phenomenology." Richard F. Peterson and Alan M. Cohn, directors.

BA and MA in English Philology, 1980, University of Wroclaw, Poland (corresponding to degrees in English, Linguistics, and ESL). Course work: four years of history of English and American Lit.; Literary Theory and Criticism; Theory of Literary Genres; Practical English (four years of writing and conversatorium classes); History of England and of the United States; Linguistics; History of the English language: Old- and Middle-English; Descriptive, Comparative, and Transformational Grammar; Translation; Logic; Philosophy; Political Science; Pedagogy (including teaching practicum); French; Latin.
MA Thesis: "Literary Criticism of John Galsworthy."

LANGUAGE COMPETENCY:
Polish, English, Russian; (reading: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin; in perpetual progress: Greek).

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Modern British and Irish Literature; Ancient and Modern Literary Theory and Criticism; World Literature; Translation Studies; Linguistics; Cultural Studies.

OTHER AREAS OF RESEARCH:
Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; History; Semiotics; Colonialism; Feminism; Latin-American and Slavic Literature; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
1987-present: Professor of English, Radford University: teaching British and World literature, literary theory and criticism, freshman composition;
2001 Lecturer at the International James Joyce Summer School, Dublin, Ireland;
1990 Russian Instructor for Radva Corporation in Radford, Virginia;
1985-87 Lecturer, Department of English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale;
1982-85 Teaching Asst., SIU-Carbondale; teaching freshman comp. and tech. writing;
1983-84 Research Asst., SIU-Carbondale; translation; bibliographical research;
1984 Visiting Scholar, World Institute of Phenomenology, Boston; Research in the Harvard University Library;
1982-84 Writing Tutor, Center for Basic Skills; Writing Center, SIU-Carbondale;
Fall 1981 Research Fellow, Department of Theatre, SIU-Carbondale; translation of plays by Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) from Polish into English;
1980-81 Translator, International Computing Medical Center, Wrocław, Poland;
1979-80 Translator-Interpreter, Institute of Chemistry, U. of Wrocław, Poland; translator of scientific research;
1977-80 "Teaching English through Theater": THE WHY NOT Theater of the University of Wrocław, Poland; English literature on stage; didactic tours around Poland;
         participation in the International Student Theatre Festival, Vienna, 1979;
1975 Teacher of English, The 1st High School, Jelenia Góra, Poland.

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 Last Updated:   10/23/2008