Visiting Professor

Artur Gałkowski is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Łódź, specializing in Italian and French. His research focuses mainly on Italian linguistics and onomastics, particularly in the field of crematonyms. He also deals with lexicology, translation and language teaching.  

In the second semester of the academic year 2024/2025, Professor Gałkowski will collaborate in the following courses: Didactics of Italian L2, Brescia campus (Prof. Silvia Gilardoni); Laboratory for Teaching Italian as a Second Language, Milan campus (Dr. Maria Vittoria Lo Presti); General Linguistics, Brescia campus (Prof. Cigada).

Postdoc zur Habilitation in Germanistischer Linguistik am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Köln und am MESH-Institut (Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities).  

Sozio- und Kulturlinguistik, Medienlinguistik, Argumentationsanalyse und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung

UC Professors:  Alessandra Lombardi

Team-Teaching-Modul (10 Stunden) zum Thema Medientextanalyse und Argumentationsanalyse. 

Zielgruppe: Masterstudierende

Lehrveranstaltung: "Communicative Strategies of the German Language

LOCATION: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, BRESCIA campus

PERIOD: 2-10 April 2025

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Mediävistik) Universität Kassel. Kulturgeschichte des Hoch- und Spätmittelalters, Antikenromane, Höfische Romane und Artusromane des Hochmittelalters, Fachliteratur des Spätmittelalters

UC professors: Lucia Mor, Alessandra Lombardi, Gloria Colombo

Activities carried out for UC: Lessons for LT and LM students (9 hours)

LOCATION: Univ. Cattolica - Brescia Campus

PERIOD:17- 28 March 2025

Marian Lopata, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv, was in Milan with an Erasmus Plus project between UC and the Catholic University of Lviv from 21 to 25 October, collaborated with prof. Anna Bonola and gave two lectures:

within the course in International Relations on the theme "Foreign relations of Ukraine with Western neighbours (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania)"

within the course in Political Science on the theme "Democracy and hybrid regimes (with a focus on Ukraine)".

Ełona Curkan-Dróżka, assistant professor at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz, Department of Translation Studies and Language Didactics, has given the following lectures at the UC:

8 October, 12.30-14.30, "Petersburg" Dr. Elena Freda-Piredda;

8 October, 14.30-16.30, "Russian songs" Dr. Ilaria Grabujo;  

11 October, 9.30-11.30, "Non-verbal communication" prof. Nataliya Stoyanova

Anna Stępnjak, Assistant Professor, Department of Russian Literature and Culture, Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz, collaborated with Prof. Maurizia Calusio and gave the following two lectures:

9 October 2024 on the topic 'Genre and stylistic features of Svetlana Aleksievich's artistic and documentary Prose'

10 October 2024 on the theme "Souls begin to see". Epistolary romance by Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva"