Curriculum Vitae
JOANNA RZEPA
Full-time PhD candidate at the University of Warwick
EDUCATION
10.2011 – 10.2014 University of Warwick - PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies
Dissertation: The Modernist Poetics of Prayer: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Józef Wittlin, supervised by Dr Emma Mason
10.2005 – 07.2010 Jagiellonian University, Kraków - BA+MA in English and Translation Studies
Dissertation: Polish Literature in English Translation 1999-2009: A Voice from the Periphery?, supervised by Dr Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa
10.2010 – 12.2011 Jagiellonian University, Kraków - MA in Teaching Polish as a Foreign and Second Language
Dissertation: Polish as a Second Language: Foreign students in primary and junior secondary schools in Kraków in the 2010-2011 school year, supervised by Prof. Władysław Miodunka
10.2007 – 09.2010 Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland - BA in Polish and Comparative Literary Studies
Dissertation: Silencing Friday: Contemporary Reinterpretations of 'Robinson Crusoe' and Lévinas’ Ethics of the Other, supervised by Prof. Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand
10.2009 – 06.2010 University College London - Affiliate student in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies; Modules included: Russian; Representations of Russia; Russian Literature of the 19th century; Contemporary Russian Literature
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- 2011-2014: Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship
- 2013: Research Fellowship funded by the Polish Research Centre in London
- 2013: Bursary to attend the T.S. Eliot International Summer School (6-14 July 2013) awarded by the Institute of English Studies, University of London
- 2012: Bursary to attend the 16th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture awarded by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2010-2011: Scholarship for outstanding academic achievements awarded by the Polish Ministry of Higher Education
- 2009–2010: Erasmus Scholarship to the University College London
- 2006–2010: Scholarship for academic excellence funded by the Jagiellonian University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Comparative literature, Polish and English studies, intertextuality, translation studies, theology and biblical studies