The Department of Dutch Literature was established in October 2019 as a separate unit from the current Department of Dutch Literature and Language. The staff of the Department continue their current research, which focuses on the following issues:

 

dr hab. Marcin Polkowski, prof. KUL:

- the literary culture of the Netherlands in interaction with the Christian sacrum (esp. The Middle Ages - 17th century);

- spatial issues in literature (especially the literary image of the city in Dutch literature);

- Polish-Dutch and Anglo-Dutch relations (esp. the 16th-18th centuries), monuments of Dutch literature in the collections of Polish libraries;

- the history and culture of the Netherlands (especially the Middle Ages - the 18th century, the history of the Church in the Netherlands, World War II in Belgium and the Netherlands);

- canon of Dutch literature, literary translation.

 

dr Joanna Włodarczyk-Kaziród:

- regional literature of the 19th/20th century in Belgium and the Netherlands;

- reception of Polish literature in Belgium and the Netherlands;

- Wiesław Myśliwski's prose in Dutch translations.

- cultural differences between Poland and the Netherlands/Belgium in the workplace.

 

mgr Marcin Lipnicki

- reception of Polish literature in the Dutch language area;

- reception of Dutch literature in Poland;

- juryslinguistics and legal translations.

 

 

There are currently two PhD students assosciated with the Department of Dutch Literature at the Catholic University of Lublin:

 

mgr Damian Olszewski

- anthropomorphization of animals in contemporary Dutch literature;

- oral literature of Suriname;

- fairy tales and their contemporary retellings;

- Polish and Dutch science fiction.

 

mgr Tomasz Chojnacki

- Holocaust literature in the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland;

- personal document literature in the Netherlands and Poland;

- history of the Netherlands and Poland (especially World War II, issues related to the Holocaust and German occupation).

 

 

dr hab. Marcin Polkowski, prof. KUL Profesor nadzwyczajny	head of the Department of Dutch Literature member of the Program Council of Dutch Philology curator of the Scientific Circle of Dutch Philology Students taking care of the collection of the Department of Dutch Literature	polkowski@kul.pl personal site https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5854-2027   Private site (blog about Dutch literature): literaturaniderlandzka.wordpress.com
dr Joanna Włodarczyk Asystent	CNaVT co-coordinator taking care of the book collection of the Department of Dutch Literature	joannawlodarczyk@kul.lublin.pl https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0842-0742
mgr Marcin Lipnicki Asystent	contact with Overleg Poolse Neerlandici (OPON)	marcin.lipnicki@kul.lublin.pl https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1646-4064

 

 

PhD students

 

mgr Damian Olszewski	website of Dutch philology and both Dutch philology departments responsible for the promotion of the WNH (in Dutch philology)	damian.olszewski@kul.pl https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2264-1373
mgr Tomasz Chojnacki		tomasz.chojnacki@kul.pl