Institute of German Studies
The Institute conducts research in the history of German literature, the literature and culture of 19th and 20th-century Austria, comparative literature, the reception of German literature in Poland, Polish-German literary connections, cultural studies of the German language area, the theory and practice of German language teaching (with computer support), Germanic linguistics, lexicology, lexicography, contrastive linguistics, descriptive German grammar, and the theory of literary translation.