Email: izolda@sas.upenn.edu

Summer 2011 Courses

SLAV501 Online Beginning Polish I

Fall 2011 Courses

SLAV503 Intermediate Polish I
SLAV505 Polish for Heritage Speakers I

Education

2006 M.A. in Central Eastern European Studies La Salle University, Philadelphia PA
1998 M.A. in Polish Literature (Polish Philology) University of Torun, Poland
1998 Certificate in Polish Language & Literature Pedagogy University of Torun, Poland
1995 B.A. in Polish Studies University of Torun, Poland

Teaching Experience

2008 – present Lecturer of Polish Language, University of Pennsylvania
2009 – present Lecturer of Polish Language, University of Pittsburgh (Summer Language Institute)
2004 – 2006 Student/Instructor of Polish Language, La Salle University
1998 – 2002 Lecturer of Polish Language and Literature, Polish Language School for Foreigners, Warsaw, Poland
1992 – 1998 Instructor of Polish, University of Torun, Poland (taught Polish for primary, secondary and high school students)

Ongoing projects and grants

2009 – University of Pennsylvania, SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grant, Interactive online exercises for Elementary and Intermediate Polish available through Blackboard

Adapting the Polish legends for Intermediate learners, available on http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/~swan/beta/

Creating videos for Cultural History of Poland through films

Academic interests

• Polish literature from 1918, Polish grotesque & literary motifs
• Teaching languages with the use of technology
• Heritage speakers and American "Ponglish" as a linguistic phenomenon
• Cross-cultural relations in Polish literature; Poles and other nations (Germans, Russians and Jews); Research paper: "The Jews in Galicia in the age of Franz Joseph"
• Culture & literature through Film.

Last updated on May 4, 2011