dr hab. Katarzyna Kociołek
Department of British Culture
associate professor
Room number: 3.515
email: kkociolek@uw.edu.pl
by e-mail appointment: Wednesdays 15.00-16.60 in person (room 3.515) or online (Zoom or Google Meet)
Degrees
M.A., University of Warsaw, 2002
Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 2009
Habilitation University of Warsaw, 2022
Research interests and projects
- British popular culture
- visual arts
- British art in the 19th and 20th c.
- identity theories
- media studies
- gender studies
- postcolonialism
- discourse theories (Critical Discourse Analysis)
- Irish culture
Selected publications
Books
Kociołek, K. (2020). Dress as Metaphor - British Female Fashion and Social Change in the 20th Century. Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH.
Chapters
Kociołek, K. (2022). “Seán Keating’s Ireland – the Land of Old Men.” W: M.
Schrage-Früh, T. Tracy (red.), Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture, London,
New York: Routledge, s. 207-219.
Kociołek, K. (2022). “Fashion in Literature Based on Margaret Thatcher’s The Autobiography (1995)’” W: E. Paulicelli, V. Manlow, E. Wissinger (red.), Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies, London, New York: Routledge, s. 309-317.
Kociołek, K. (2021). “The Power of the Visual: Media Photographs of Polish Women in Politics and Business in Polityka in 2009.” W: P. Rutkowski, J.Wierzchowska (red.), Texts, Images, Practices. Contemporary Perspectives on American, British and Polish Cultures, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang, s. 63-70.
Kociołek, K. (2018). “Landscaping Irishness in the 19th Century.” W: G. Bystydzieńska, E. Harris (red.), From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture. Tom 6, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, s. 133–144.
Kociołek, K. (2016). 'Dress Reform and Its Legacy in British Fashion in the 1970s. W: G. Bystydzieńska i E. Harris (Red.). From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture. Vol. 5. (s. 183-192). Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Anglistyki - Pracownia "Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich".
Kociołek, K. (2015). Visualising Irishness in Contemporary Irish Art. W: M. Geron , J. Malinowski i J. Sienkiewicz (Red.). Art of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland in 20th - 21st Centuries and Polish-British & Irish Art Relations. (s. 347-355). Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika.
Kociołek, K. (2015). Politics and Fashion: British Parliamentary Debate on Utility Suits. W: L. Krawczyk-Żywko (Red.). Exploring History: British Culture and Society 1700 to the Present. Essays in Honour of Professor Emma Harris. (s. 103-112). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Kociołek, K. (2014). Victorian Advice Literature and its Contemporary Legacy: Representation of Motherhood. W: G. Bystydzieńska i E. Harris (Red.). From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture. Vol. 4. (s. 265-272). Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Ośrodek Studiów Brytyjskich.
Kociołek, K. (2013). Virtual Identity of Ulster-Scots. W: A. Korzeniowska i I. Szymańska (Red.). Facets of Scottish Identity. (s. 46-52). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper.
Kociołek, K. (2013). Representation of Identities in the British Arts Policy of the 1980s. W: J. Fabiszak , E. Urbaniak-Rybicka i B. Wolski (Red.). Crossroads in Literature and Culture. (s.473-480). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
Kociołek, K. (2013). Vivienne Westwood - a Neo-Victorian Rebel. W: D. Babilas i L. Krawczyk-Żywko (Red.). We the Neo-Victorians: Perspectives on Literature and Culture. (s. 209-224). Warszawa: Instytut Anglistyki UW.
Articles
Kociołek, K. (2023). “Ageing Bodies and Beauty in Selected Polish Women’s Magazines.” In Communications, 2023, De Gruyter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2022-0043
Kociołek, K. (2018). “Dress and Metaphors of Mobility in British Visual Culture.” W: N. Segal and M. Maryl (red.), Special Issue: Motion and Emotion: Cultural Literacy on the Move,Open Cultural Studies, t. 2, nr 1, s. 710–722, ISSN (Online) 2451-3474, De Gruyter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0064.
Kociołek, K. (2018). London's Suffragettes, Votes for Women, and Fashion. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 27, (pp. 81-95).
Kociołek, K. A. (2017). Punk Fashion as a Metaphor in 1980s Britain and Poland. Acta Philologica, 2017, (pp. 73-82).
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN
Conferences
Conferences
Lectures:
2019
Liverpool John Moores University, the title of the lecture: “British Second-Wave Feminism, Spare Rib and Fashion”
2019
Liverpool John Moores University, the title of the lecture: “Sartorial Metaphors of Mobility”
Conference papers:
2021
Motherhood and Work, Maynooth University (Irlandia), the title of the paper: “Working mothers in the British advice literature of the 1990s” (on-line conference)
2020
Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture, National University of Ireland, Galway (Irlandia), the title of the paper: “Seán Keating’s Ireland – the Land of the Old Men” (webinar)
2019
Talking Bodies, Fourth Biennial Conference, University of Chester, Chester (UK), the title of the paper: “What do the fashioned bodies say? The sartorial representation of feminists in British newspaper cartoons from 1970 to 1973”
2019
Festiwal Literatury i Teatru Between. Pomiędzy, Sopot 13-19 May 2019: the title of the paper: “Metaphor Theory and Irishness in Selected Irish Travel Posters”
2017
Univesity of Warsaw, British Studies Centre, From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture, Warsaw, the title of the paper: “Landscaping Irishness in the 19th Century”
2017
Cultural Literacy Europe, Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Warsaw, the title of the paper: “Metaphors of Mobility in British Fashion”
2016
Scotland in Europe Conference III, Warszawa, the title of the paper: “Screening Scottish Youth Based on Stella Does Tricks (1996) and My Name is Joe (1998)”
2015
Cultural Literacy Europe, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities University College London, London (Wielka Brytania), the title of the paper: “Cultural Translation and Punk Fashion in the 1980s”
2013
5th Conference of Modern Art Art of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland in 20th – 21st centuries and Polish – British & Irish art relations, Toruń, the title of the paper: „Visualising Irishness in Contemporary Irish Art”
Other
Grants:
2020
Visiting Fellowship, Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute, (Maynooth, Irlandia)
2019
Erasmus STA/STA+STT 2018/19 Liverpool John Moores University, (Liverpool, Wielka Brytania)