Dr Anna Stanisz-Lubowiecka
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0118 378 6392
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Areas of interest
Anna is interested in the relationship between language and politics. In her ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (SEDarc DTP) project, entitled Language for and against Democracy: Ideologies and Metalinguistic Discourse in Poland and Beyond, Anna focuses on maximising the impact of her doctoral research into the role of language ideologies in supporting and challenging democratic regimes. In particular, she is working on a monograph, based on her PhD thesis entitled The Polish Language and Political Ideologies. Language Ideologies in Polish Professional Metalinguistic Discourse since 1970, which she is going to publish with Routledge. During the Fellowship, Anna is also further developing her current research and disseminating it to academic and non-academic audiences.
Anna completed her PhD at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies in July 2024. She has been awarded numerous scholarships, including AHRC (CEELBAS DTP) Doctoral Studentship (2018–2023), SSEES Excellence Scholarship (2022), and Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland (2015). In April 2024, Anna was nominated for University of Reading Teaching Excellence Award. Beyond academia, she is a poetry translator.
Teaching
In her previous role as an Associate Lecturer, Anna used to convene and contribute to the teaching of multiple modules across the DELAL BA and MA programmes. She has also supervised MA dissertations.
Her current role does not include teaching responsibilities.
Background
Other activities involve:
- British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Head of Languages and Linguistics stream (2023–2027)
- Co-founder and moderator of British Association of Applied Linguistics Language Policy Special Interest Group reading group (since 2023
- Peer-review board in the journals Language Policy and Central Europe (since 2022)
- Multiple conference presentations, talks, and lectures, including for the Applied Linguistics Research Circle at DELAL, PROLang (Policy, Research, Outreach) Research Group (UCL SSEES), and Language, Ideology and Power Research Group at the Department of Linguistics and English Language (University of Lancaster)