dr hab. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, prof. UO

Associate Professor, Head of Department of English, Institute of Linguistics

Research interests:(Critical) discourse studies, media studies, media literacy, journalism, rhetoric

Selected Publications

Books

Chovanec, Jan and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (eds). 2017. Representing the Other in European Media Discourses. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 320pp.

Wolny, Ryszard W. and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (eds). 2018.Disease, Death, Decay in Literatures and Cultures. Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (University of Opole Press)

Budzyńska-Daca Agnieszka, Kampka Agnieszka, Molek-Kozakowska Katarzyna (ed.)2016. Retoryka wizerunku medialnego, Rhetoricum, Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne, ISBN 978-83-943179-4-2, 336 pp.

Kampka, Agnieszka, Molek-Kozakowska Katarzyna (ed.)2016. Rhetoric, Knowledge and the Public Sphere. Frankfurt am Main:Peter Lang , ISBN:  9783653951059 [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-05950-2] 246 pp.

Articles and chapters

• Graphic emotion: A critical rhetorical analysis of online children-related charity communication in Poland Critical Discourse Studies 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2019.1567362
• De-bureaucratizing organizational culture at a public university: A mixed-method study of the implementation of a liberal arts program. with Robert Geisler Higher Education Quarterly. 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12262
• Imagining a “post-carbon” future? Climate change as represented by media and film industries. with Stankomir Nicieja Świat i Słowo 2020 https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.3078
  
• Instagram w autoprezentacji politycznej. Analiza wizualna postów polskich kandydatów do Europarlamentu w 2019. with  Agnieszka Kampka Polityka i Społeczeństwo 1.18 (2020): 41-62. 
  
• Are organizations committed to stress management interventions? with Dorota Molek-Winiarska, Employee Relations  42.6 (2020): 1309-1325. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-08-2019-0314
• Reproductive rights or duties? The rhetoric of division in social media debates on abortion law in Poland. with Michał Wanke. Social Movement Studies 18.5 (2019) 566–585 https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2019.1629279
• Fuzzy identities in (dis)integrating Europe: Discursive identifications of Poles in Britain following Brexit. In: Fuzzy Boundaries in Discourse Studies: Theoretical, Methodological, and Lexico-Grammatical Fuzziness, 2019. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27573-0­_4
• Multimodal persuasion in humanitarian communication: A comparative analysis of text-image alignments in online charity materials. In New Perspectives in English and American Studies, Volume Two: Language. 2019.pp. 11-37. Jagiellonian University Press.
• Arguments and counter-arguments in the debate to decriminalize some forms of incestuous relations in Poland. with Marcin Deutschmann. Studia Anglica Resoviensia 15.2 (2018): 74-96 http://sar.ur.edu.pl/
• Problematic Facebook use: A review of literature. with Urszula Plachetka. Recepcja Mediów 5: Recepcja mediów przez młodzież i osoby dorosłe. 2018. ed. Barbara Boniecka and Anna Granat. 175-184. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS.
• Constructing a “breakthrough”: News Values in Science Magazine’s 2017 ranking of most important discoveries. Stylistyka: Styl i aksjologia 27(2018): 233-249 https://doi.org/10.25167/Stylistyka27.2018.15
• Between information and persuasion: Discursive strategies of factual legitimization in humanitarian communication. In: Transcending Borders and Binaries, 2018, 255-273, ed. Tatiana Bijelic, Petar Penda, Zelijka Babic. Banja Luka BiH: University of Banja Luka.
• Distance crossing and alignment in online humanitarian discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 124, 2018, 1–13. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma. 2017.11.010
• Stylistic analysis of headlines in science journalism: A case study of New Scientist. Public Understanding of Science 26.8, 2017, 894-907. DOI: 10.1177/0963662516637321
• Journalistic practices of science popularization in the context of users’ agenda: A case study of New Scientist. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 43, 2017, 93-109. doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.43.07
• Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid. Discourse, Context & Media 2017,1-9. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm. 2017.09.013
• Discourse Studies and Media Studies: Crossing disciplinary boundaries? In: Discourse Studies – Ways and Crossroads. Insights into Cultural, Diachronic and Genre Issues in the Discipline, edited by Karolina Broś, and Grzegorz Kowalski, 2017, 47-61. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-73948-8
• Challenges of interdisciplinary university programs of studies: The case of English in Public Communication. In: At the Crossroads: Challenges of Foreign Language Learning, edited by EwaPiechurska-Kuciel, ElzbietaSzymańska-Czaplak, and Magdalena Szyszka, 2017, 157- 173. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55155-5_9
• with Sabina Pogorzelska. Changing perceptions of multiculturalism in the British public sphere. In: Multilingualism and the Self, edited by Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Dagmara Gałajda, Adam Wojtaszek, Paweł Zakrajewski, 2017, 3-18, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56892-8_1
• Negotiating an identity: The mediated discursive self-representation of the Polish immigrant community in the UK. In: Representing the Other in European Media Discourses, edited by Jan Chovanec, and KatarzynaMolek-Kozakowska, 2017, 158-181. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. DOI: 10.1075/dapsac.74.08mol
• A civilization of death: Argumentative and rhetorical strategies in the Catholic Church’s position on biotechnology. In: Ways to Religion Vol.1. edited byAleksandra R. Knapik, Katarzyna Buczek, Piotr P. Chruszczewski, Richard L. Lanigan, and John R. Rickford, 2017. 129-143. Wrocław/Washington, DC: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej & International Communicology Institute.
• Communicating environmental science beyond academia: Stylistic patterns of newsworthiness in popular science journalism. Discourse & Communication 11(1), 2017, 69–88 DOI: 10.1177/1750481316683294
• Stylistic analysis of headlines in science journalism: A case study of New Scientist. Public Understanding of Science, 2016,1–14 OnlineFirst DOI: 10.1177/0963662516637321
• Framing disease, ageing and death in popular science journalism. Brno Studies in English 42 (1), 2016, 49-69, DOI:10.5817/BSE2016-1-3
• The advantages of applying the concept of rhetorical style in language-oriented Journalism Studies. Stylistyka 25, 2016, 277-290.
• The rhetorical construction of Hillary Rodham Clinton as a presidential contender in 2016: A case study of hillaryclinton.com. Res Rhetorica 2, 2016, 12-27.
• The rhetoric of research reports in the humanities: Paradoxes of exigence.In: Rhetoric, Discourse and Knowledge.Maria Załęska and UrszulaOkulska (ed.),2016, Frankfurt am Main:Peter Lang. pp.133-150.ISBN: 9783631698761DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-05993-9
• Figurative emotional expression in popular science headlines. In:From Motion to Emotion: Aspects of Physical and Cultural Embodiment in Language.MarekKuźniak, BożenaRozwadowska, and MichałSzawerna (ed.),2016, Frankfurt am Main:Peter Lang, pp. 233-244. ISBN 978-3-631-65942-7
• From the Discourse of American Exceptionalism to Anti-American Sentiment: A Critical Analysis of Neoconservative Rhetoric. In: Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11. Volume 2: Perspectives in Language.AnnaGonerko-Frej, and MałgorzataSokół (ed.), 2016, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 169-184.ISBN 1-4438-9697-7
• O wizerunkowości sfery publicznej i jej analizie retorycznej. In: Retoryka wizerunku medialnegoAgnieszkaBudzyńska-Daca, AgnieszkaKampka, KatarzynaMolek-Kozakowska (ed.), 2016, Warszawa: Rhetoricum, Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne, pp. 5-21, ISBN 978-83-943179-4-2
• Rhetoric and the public sphere: Making a case for a knowledge society (with Agnieszka Kampka)  In: Rhetoric, Knowledge and the Public Sphere. Agnieszka Kampka and KatarzynaMolek-Kozakowska (ed.). Series: Studies in Language, Culture and Society. Frankfurt am Main:  Peter Lang, pp. 9-24. ISBN 9783653951059. dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-05950-2

• “Design and style of Cultural and Media Studies textbooks for college students”. New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, ed. Liliana Piasecka, Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf & Przemysław Wilk, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2015, p. 189-207.
• “Presupposition and nominalization in headlinese: A critical analysis of framing devices in journalistic discourse.”  Discourses in Co(n)text  The Many Faces of Specialised Discourse, ed. Magdalena Zabielska, Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej, Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak, Newcastle:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, p. 134-161.
• “Rhetorical criticism as an advanced literacy practice: A report on a pilot training”. The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner: Selected Issues, ed. Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel and Magdalena Szyszka, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2015, 169-184.
• “Book review: Lawrence N Berlin and Anita Fetzer (eds), Dialogue in Politics” Discourse & Communication 9 (3), 2015: 375-378, doi: 10.1177/1750481315578969
• “Inspirations for Critical Literacy across Cultural and Media Studies.” News from Somewhere: A reader in communication and challenges to globalization, ed. Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn and James Winter, Eugene, OR: Wayzgoose Press, 2015, p. 17-26.
• „Dyspozycja krytyczna jako komponent refleksyjności językowej na poziomie akademickim” Refleksja w uczeniu się i nauczaniu języków obcych, ed. Małgorzata Baran Łucarz, Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2015, p. 97-111.
• “Revising the traditional model of journalism in the context of digital media” Visions and Revisions: Studies in Literature and Culture, ed. Grzegorz Czemiel, Justyna Galant, Anna Kędra-Kardela, Aleksandra Kędzierska, Marta Komsta, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015, p. 299-306.
• “Too much trivia in the news? A critical discourse analysis of sensationalist headlines” [w] Poisoned Cornucopia: Excess, Intemperance and Overabundance across Cultures and Literatures. Red. Ryszard Wolny i Stankomir Nicieja. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang. str. 311-328 ISBN 978-3-631-64620-5
•  “Coercive metaphors in news headlines: A cognitive-pragmatic approach” [w] Brno Studies in English, 40 (1) 2014: 149-173  ISSN 0524-6881
•  “The Style of EU Directives and the Discourse of Expert Rationality” [w] Stylistyka 23, 2014: 245-261 ISSN 1230-2287
• “Media polonijne w Londynie a kształtowanie tożsamości polskich emigrantów po 2004 roku” [w] Rocznik Biblioteki Głównej Uniwersytetu Opolskiego 2014 (10): 91-100
•  “Debating the origins: The creation-evolution controversy, [w] Res Rhetorica  2014 (1): 76-86
•  “Rooting for the federation: Linguistic markers of consensuality in J. M. Barroso’s 2012 State of the EU Address,” [w] Face to Face, Page to Page. PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Red. Dorota Babilas, Agnieszka Piskorska and Paweł Rutkowski. Warszawa: Instytut Anglistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2014, str. 527-536  ISBN 9788360269312
•  “Hybrid styles in popular reporting on science: A study of New Scientist’s headlines” [w] Hybridity and the News Hybrid Forms of Journalism in the 21st century: Electronic Proceedings. Red. Martina Tammerman, Roel Coesemans i Jelle Mast. Vrije Universitat Brussel, 2014, str. 135-159.
• Towards a pragma-linguistic framework for the study of sensationalism in news headlines” Discourse & Communication 7(2), 2013, p. 173-197 DOI: 10.1177/1750481312471668
• “Book review: Digital Journalism” Discourse  Communication  7(3), 2013, p. 365-367, DOI: 10.1177/1750481313485398c
• “Visual culture and the style of college textbooks: A critical study.” Stylistyka 22, 2013, p. 233–251
• “How to foster critical literacy in academic contexts: Some insights from action research on writing research papers”  Language in Cognition and Affect: Second Language Learning and Teaching. Edited by Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel and Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2013, p. 95-110, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35305-5_6
• “Critical Literacy for Academic Purposes. A Study of Polish Students of English Writing Diploma Papers. Spectrums and Spaces of Writing,  e-book. Edited by Phil Fitzsimmons, Zoe Charalambous and Susan L. Wiesner  Oxford, UK: Interdisciplinary Press, 2013, p. 171-179
• “The late-night TV talk show as a strategic genre in political campaigning” Analysing Genres in Political Communication. Theory and Practice. Edited by Piotr Cap  and Urszula Okulska, DAPSAC series 50. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2013, p. 321-344
• “Current trends in the media coverage of child abuse: Ideologies, moralities, interests” Evil and Ugliness across Literatures and Cultures. Edited by Ryszard Wolny, Stankomir Nicieja and Andrzej Ciuk. Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, 2013, p. 263-277
• “Multiple ideologies in the media construction of women in politics: A case study of gender parity debate in Poland.” Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) Journal 5(2) 2012, p. 72-87.
• “The notion of rhetorical style and its application in newspaper discourse.” Stylistics Across Disciplines: Conference Proceedings, Leiden University CD-ROM : ISBN/EAN: 978-90-9026652-7
• “Identity-styling through code-mixing in journalistic discourse.” Languages in Contact 2011. Zdzisław Wąsik and Piotr Chruszczewski (eds.). Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Filologicznej, 2012, p. 177-189.
• “Stylistics across disciplines.” Stylistics XX: Integration in Stylistics. Stanisław Gajda (ed.). Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (University of Opole Press), 2011, p. 463-470.
• “Local American media in the time of crisis: trends and challenges.” Local and Regional Media: “Multiple ideologies in the media construction of women in politics: A case study of gender parity debate in Poland.” Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) Journal 5(2) 2012, p. 72-87.“A scream against the American Dream: Allen Ginsberg’s use of the notion of dream as a device of ideological resistance.” The Dream: Readings in English and American Literature and Culture 3. Ilona Dobosiewicz and Jacek Gutorow (eds.). Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (University of Opole Press), 2011, p.127-146.
• “Territorialization in political discourse: A pragma-linguistic study of Jerzy Buzek’s inaugural speeches.” New Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Translation Studies. Mirosław Pawlak and Jakub Bielak (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2011, p. 177-188.
• “The Evil Empire returns? A critical analysis of stereotypes of Russia in British and American coverage of the Georgian crisis.” Us and Them – Them and Us: Constructions of the Other in Cultural Stereotypes. Anna Gonerko-Frej, Małgorzata Sokół, Joanna Witkowska and Uwe Zagratzki (eds.). Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2011, p. 473-490.
• “Rhetorical styles in Internet-mediated political discourse concerning Polish gender parity debate 2009/2010.” Stylistics XIX: Style and Media. Stanisław Gajda (ed.). Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (University of Opole Press), 2010, p. 145-159.
• „Europa w obliczu imigracji. Językowy obraz imigrantów w dyskursie populistycznym a retoryka wykluczenia.” Od banity do nomady. Joanna Czaplińska and Sabina Giergiel (eds.). Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (University of Opole Press), 2010, p. 106-111.
• “A knowledge society or a knowledgeable society? The role of the humanities in the fostering of knowledge through critical literacy.” Polish Journal of Philosophy (Conference Proceedings Series), Vol. 1, Information-Communication-Knowledge: The role of the humanities in the society of knowledge. Iwona Alechnowicz (ed.). Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2010, p. 33-46.
• “The rhetoric of space in political discourse: Spatial metaphors in selected speeches of the European Commission.” Exploring Space: Spatial Notions in Cultural, Literary and Language Studies, Vol. 2. Space in Language Studies. Andrzej Ciuk and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (eds.). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, p. 93-103.
• “Labeling and mislabeling in American political discourse: A survey based on insights of independent media monitors.” Perspectives in Politics and Discourse, DAPSAC 36 series, Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap (eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2010, p. 83-96.
• “Personalization in political discourse: Its pragma-linguistic realizations and potential persuasive effects.” Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics: Pragmatics of Semantically-restricted Domains. Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (ed.). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, p. 51-64.
• “Critical Discourse Analysis and media education. Some implications for critical media literacy.” Globalization, Discourse, Media: In a Critical Perspective. Anna Duszak, Juliane House, and Łukasz Kumięga (eds.). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (Warsaw University Press), 2010, p. 113-131.
• “W poszukiwaniu modelu krytycznej pedagogizacji medialnej.” Kultura medialnie zapośredniczona. Badania nad mediami w optyce kulturoznawczej. Wojciech Chyla, Magdalena Kamińska, Piotr Kędzora and Marta Konińska (eds.). Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Bogucki, 2010, p. 367-376.
• “Time compression in the evolution of meaning of political labels liberal and conservative in the context of ideological struggle in the U.S.” Reflections on Aspects of Time in Culture, Literature and Language. Ryszard Wolny (ed.) Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (University of Opole Press), 2009, p. 111-120.
• “Metaphor as a rhetorical device in U.S. interventionist discourse. A CDA review of recent metaphors of war and terror.” Słowo jako wyraz duchowości człowieka. Zdzisław Wąsik and Józef Zaprucki (eds.). Jelenia Góra: Kolegium Karkonoskie (Zeszyty Wydziału Humanistycznego III), 2009, p. 55-70.
• “Theory and practice of media education: A case for critical media literacy.” Language, Cognition, and Society. Jan Zalewski (ed.). Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (University of Opole Press), 2009, p. 55-70.
• ‘Stereotypes in the mass media: Towards a methodology of stereotype research in media discourse.” Stereotipy i nacionalnye sistemy cennoctej w meżkulturnoj kommunikacii (Stereotypy i narodowe systemy wartości w komunikacji międzykulturowej). Vladimir Szajdurow and Aleksander Kiklewicz (eds.). Sankt Petersburg and Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo Newskiego Instytutu Języka i Kultury, 2009, p. 95-99.
• “Between multiculturalism and nationalism – a discursive construction of Britishness in the Spectator in the wake of London bombings.” Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (2), 2008, p. 293-309.
• “Descriptive and interpretative methods in Critical Discourse Analysis.” Język poza granicami języka. Aleksander Kiklewicz and Józef Dębowski (eds.). Olsztyn: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego, 2008, p. 117-125.
• “Discursive strategies of positive self-presentation in The Sydney Morning Herald in the context of Social Identity Theory.” Australia. Identity, Memory and Destiny. Stankomir Nicieja and Ryszard Wolny (eds.). Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego (University of Opole Press), 2008, p. 61-73.
• “Interpreting advertising slogans: Incorporating discourse analysis into the teaching of rhetorical skills” Modern Developments in Linguistics and Language Teaching: International Conference Proceedings. Vol 1. Tatiana Dubrovskaya, Marek Kuczynski and Olga Abramova (eds.). Moscow: International Independent University of Ecology and Political Science, 2007, p. 76-82.
• “Antiwar appeal in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’ and its relevance today.” For the Love of the Embedded Word – in Society, Culture and Education. Zdzisław Wąsik and Andrzej Ciuk (eds.). Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego (Wrocław University Press), 2007, p. 127-143.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

• Polish immigrant identity in Polish-language new media in Britain. 5th International Transfopress Encounter Foreign-Language Publishing in the English-Speaking World, Université Paris Diderot/Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, 2017.
• The rhetoric of division in recent mediated debates on abortion law in Poland. The Sixth “Rhetoric in Society” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of Europe” Rhetorics of Unity and Division, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 2017.
• Between information and persuasion: Discursive strategies of factual rhetoric in humanitarian communication.  3rd International conference on English Language and Literary Studies: Transcending Borders and Binaries, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2017.
• Multimodal persuasion in online humanitarian communication. April Conference Fourteen: New Perspectives in English and American studies, UJ, Kraków, 2017.
• The rhetorical potential of typographic and iconographic signifiers in online charity discourse Antropologia Komunikacji: Obliczapisma, UO, Opole, 2017
• “(Non)constructive frames for disease and ageing in popular  science journalism”. Constructed | Constructive Journalism: VrijeUniversiteit Brussel 8-9 December 2016.
• “Framing disease, ageing and death in popular science journalism”. Decay, Disease, Death in Literatures, Cultures and Languages. Opole 26-28 September 2016.
• “Pisanie abstraktów i streszczeń po angielsku (w kontekście globalizacji dyskursu akademickiego)”. Konferencja SPNJO UWr Specyficzne potrzeby studentów szkół wyższych a nauczanie języków obcych: Kierunki rozwoju, nowe wyzwania, rekomendacje. Wrocław,15-17 września 2016.
• “Oficjalna strona Hillary Clinton a retoryczne strategie kształtowania wizerunku”. IV KongresPolskiegoTowarzystwaKomunikacjiSpołecznej,Poznań 15-17 września 2016.
• “The unsaid in the popular coverage of environmental issues: A comparative discourse analysis”. 12th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Silence, Significance, White Space. VrijeUniversiteut Amsterdam, 13-15 July 2016.
• “Visual and verbal strategies in online science journalism”. Invited lecture at UAM, Poznań,10 May 2016.
• “Jak (nie) pisać: O abstraktach w anglojęzycznych czasopismach poświęconych dyskursowi i komunikacji.” ” Wykład/warsztat na zaproszenie.  Konferencja Problemy i zadania współczesnego językoznawstwa XII. Język wczoraj, dziś i jutro. UWr, Karpacz, 8-10 kwietnia 2016.
• “Changing perceptions of multiculturalism in the British public sphere”. 25^th Annual Conference of PASE Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self. UŚ Szczyrk, 31 March-2 April 2016.
• “Successes and failures of interdisciplinary programs of studies: The case of English in Public Communication at Opole University” Topics in Applied Linguistics: 2015, 16-17 Nov. 2015, UO  Opole.
• “The rhetorical construction of political leadership. A case study of hillaryclinton.com” Konferencja Polskiego Towarzystwa Retorycznego 5-6 Nov. 2015, SGGW, Warszawa.
• “Visualization strategies in science popularization: A critical multimodal analysis” invited speaker to Cross-disciplinary SEMINAR: Professional and Public Communication: Meaning in Context, 16-19 Oct. 2015,  IFA UMK Toruń.
• “The style of science journalism: Communicating environmental science beyond academia Communication Styles 12-14 Oct. 2015, PWSZ, Krosno.
• “Image-text relations in online science popularization: A critical multimodal analysis of newscientist.com, Poznań Linguistic Meeting 17-19 Sept. 2015 UAM, Poznań.
• “The civilization of death: Rhetorical strategies in the Catholic Church’s position on biotechnology. Ways to Religion 6-7 June 2015 . PAN Wrocław/WSF, Wrocław.
• “Pragmalinguistic, multimodal and critical orientations to online science journalism” GLOBE: East-West European forum on discourse: Past, present and future of discourse studies 14-16 May 2015, UW, Warszawa.
• “Figurative emotional expression in popular science headlines” 25th PASE conference 17-19 April 2015, UWr, Wrocław.
•  “Pragmalinguistic categories in discourse analysis on online news” New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, 12-14 April 2015, UŁ, Łódź.
• “Constructing ‘the extraordinary’ in journalistic discourse on science: A case study of New Scientist’s headlines”. The Outlandish, Uncanny and Bizarre in Literatures and Cultures: Book of Abstracts. 29-30 Sept. 2014, UO, Opole.
•  “Negotiating an identity: The mediated discursive self-representation of the Polish immigrant community in the UK” CADAAD 5 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 1-3 Sept. 2014, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.
• “The discursive self-representation of the Polish immigrant community in the UK” 12 ESSE Conference 29 August – 2 Sept. 2014, Pavol Josef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia.
• “EU’s expert rationality versus Poland’s ethical conundrum: The case of in vitro discourse(s)”  Political Linguistics III 8-10 May 2014, ILS UW, Warszawa.
•  „Dyskursywne strategie autoprezentacji Polaków w Wielkiej Brytanii na przykładzie portalu MojaWyspa.co.uk” 5 Symposium Opoliensis, 7-8 May 2014, UO, Opole.
•  “Revising the traditional model of journalism in the context of digital media” 24th  PASE Conference 7-9 April 2014, UMCS, Lublin.
• Opening lecture: A discourse analysis of sensationalism in newspaper headlines. Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 21. Nov. 2013.
• Rhetorical criticism as an advanced literacy practice: A report on a pilot training. Opole University 7-9. Oct. 2013.
• Dyspozycja krytyczna jako kompetencja akademicka. University of Wrocław. 9-11. Sept. 2013.
• Criticality as an academic skill: Some reflections on how to foster critical literacy skills. Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, 25-26. June 2013.
• Rhetoric for critical literacy. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. 22-25. May 2013.
• Rooting for the federation: Linguistic markers of “consensuality” in EU discourse in J.M. Barroso’s 2012 State of the EU Address. University of Warsaw, 22-24. April 2013.
• Etos, logos i patos we wspołczesnej retoryce dziennikarskiej: Studium porównawcze. Pragmatyka 2012: Interdyscyplinarne podejścia do pragmatyki, retoryki i argumentacji. University of Łódź, 20-22 Sept. 2012.
• “Too much drama in the news? A critical discourse analysis of sensationalist headlines.” Poisoned Cornucopia: Excess, Intemperance and Overabundance in Cultures and Literatures University of Opole, 12-14 Sept. 2012.
• “Towards a pragma-linguistics of sensationalism” 4th Conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012.
• “A pragma-linguistic framework for the study of sensationalism.” 6th New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, University of Łódź, 26-28 May 2012.
• “Media rhetorics: A comparative analysis of three British press outlets.” 21st Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Jagiellonian University, 19-21 April 2012.
• “How to foster critical literacy in academic contexts: Some insights from action research on writing research papers” Topics in Applied Linguistics: Cognitive and Affective Language Processes in Intercultural Contexts, University of Opole, 14-16 Nov. 2011.
• “Critical Literacy for Academic Purposes? A study of Polish students of English writing research papers.” 1st Global Conference on Writing: Paradigms, Power, Poetics, Praxes, Inter-disciplinary Net. Prague, 12-14 Nov. 2011.
• “From the discourse of American exceptionalism to anti-American sentiment: A critical analysis of neoconservative rhetoric.” Who is ‘us’ and who is ‘them’ after 9/11 – Reflections on Language, Literature and Culture in Times of Ideological Clashes, University of Szczecin, 21-23 Sept. 2011.
• “The notion of rhetorical style and its application in newspaper discourse.” Stylistics across Disciplines, Leiden University, 16-17 June 2011.
• “Identity-styling through code-mixing in journalistic discourse.” Languages in Contact, Philological School of Higher Education and Polish Academy of Science, Wrocław, 11-12 June 2011.
• “Tracing tabloidization: A comparative analysis of rhetorical styles in quality and tabloid newspapers.” 20th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, 12-14 May 2011.
• “Historical references as arguments in EP President Jerzy Buzek’s inaugural speeches.” (Re)visions of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, 19-20 Nov. 2010.
• “Current trends in the media coverage of child abuse: Ideologies, moralities, interests.” Evil, Ugliness, Disgrace, University of Opole, Kamień Śl., 25-26 Oct. 2010.
• “Multiple ideologies in the media construction of women in politics: A case study of gender parity debate in Poland.” Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, University of Łódź, 13-15 Sept. 2010.
• “A critical discursive analysis of European Parliament’s President Jerzy Buzek’s speeches.” New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, University of Łódź, 7-9 May 2010.
• “Territorialization in political discourse: A pragma-linguistic study of Jerzy Buzek’s inaugural speeches.” 19th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, 19-21 April 2010.
• “Local American media in the time of crisis: trends and challenges.” Local and Regional Media in the Democracy, University of Opole, Nowa Ruda, 19-20 Nov. 2009.
• “Nightly TV talk show as a strategic genre in political campaigning.” Political Linguistics 2009, University of Łódź and Warsaw University, Łódź, 17-19 Sept. 2009.
• “The Evil Empire returns? A critical analysis of stereotypes of Russia in British and American coverage of the Georgian crisis.” Us and Them – Them and Us: Constructions of the Other in Cultural Stereotypes – Perceptions, Challenges. Meanings, University of Szczecin, 6-8 May 2009.
• “The rhetoric of space in political discourse. Spatial metaphors in selected speeches of the European Commission.” 18th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English University of Opole, Kamień Śląski, 19-22 April 2009.
• „Europa w obliczu imigracji. Językowy obraz imigrantów w dyskursie populistycznym a retoryka wykluczenia” 1st International Symposium Opoliensis: Od banity do nomady University of Opole, 26-27 March 2009.