This film was made on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk’s academic work by the Department of Contemporary English Language. The film shows Prof. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and the Faculty of English (formerly School of English), seen through the lens of researchers from all over the world.
It is a story filled with vivid recollections and anecdotes about a scholar who inspires and fascinates the people who have had a chance to work with her. The film features:
- Dr. Elena Babatsouli (Department of Communicative Disorders, College of Liberal Arts, University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
- Dr. Anna Cieślicka (Department of Psychology and Communication, Texas A&M International University)
- Dr. Ron Cole (Boulder Language Technologies)
- Prof. Wolfgang U. Dressler (Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
- Prof. Ulrike Gut (English Department, University of Münster)
- Prof. Ernst Håkon Jahr (Department of Nordic and Media Studies, University of Agder, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters)
- Dr. Zofia Malisz (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Prof. Monika Połczyńska (Department of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles)
- Prof. Dennis Preston (Department of Linguistics, University of Kentucky)
- Prof. Nikolaus Ritt (Institute of English and American Studies, University of Vienna)
- Dr. Šárka Šimáčková (Department of English and American Studies, Palacký University Olomouc)
- Prof. Tobias Scheer (Bases, Corpus, Language Lab, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Linguistics Department, Côte d’Azur University)
- Dr. Sylwia Scheuer (Department of the English-speaking World, Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
- Prof. Marzena Żygis (Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics in Berlin, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, Humboldt University)
Prof. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk became Head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in 2005, and in 2012 – the Dean of the Faculty of English, which was established thanks to her efforts. She is now Vice-Rector for Research, Head of the School of Languages and Literatures and Head of the Department of Contemporary English Language. She is an outstanding scholar, appreciated in international academic circles, and a member of prestigious associations. Her research interests include phonetics, phonology, and especially Natural Phonology, first and second language acquisition, phonostylistics, Natural Linguistics, phonotactics and morphophonotactics, which she is a co-founder of. Her engagement in teaching is remarkable: 95 students have written their MA theses under her supervision and she has supervised 24 PhD dissertations. Last but not least, Kasia is a great boss, full of inspiration, a sense of humour, charisma and fascination with the world and its diversity – all these traits are reflected in the film.
The idea for the film was conceived by Prof. Marcin Kilarski. The person who gets the credit for recording sessions and editing of the film is Dr. Grzegorz Krynicki, who was supported by Ms. Zuzanna Cal. The interviews were conducted by Prof. Anna Balas, Prof. Marcin Kilarski and Prof. Magdalena Wrembel. The premiere of the film took place on 11 October 2023, during an annual staff meeting at the Faculty of English—we have included photographs from this event in the gallery.
