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dr Bożena Prochwicz-Studnicka

dr Bożena Prochwicz-Studnicka

e-mail: bozena.prochwicz-studnicka@ignatianum.edu.pl

M.A. (Jagiellonian University) and PhD (Warsaw University) in Arabic studies in the field of Arabic literature. During the years 1996-2002 lectured at the Chair of Arabic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Jagiellonian University, and during the years 2005-2018 at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations, currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies and Journalism (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow).

Academic interests

  • Arabic culture in the context of literacy theory,
  • legal aspects of the classical Arab-Muslim culture,
  • social and spatial structure of the traditional Arab-Muslim city,
  • Islamic religious doctrine and the religious experience in the light of the Qur'ānic commentaries.

Selected publications

Other achievements

  • member of the HEST Cluster: Christian-Muslim Relations (Europe), representative of the Jesuit University in Krakow as a partner institution,
  • management of the project DUN – Science Popularization Activities (agreement no 922/P-DUN/2018), financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In the frame of the project two issues of “The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series” will be published in English;
  • vice-Editor-in-Chief of “The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series”  http://www.ejournals.eu/PJACNS/;
  • co-responsibility for the project supporting oriental language learning programme in the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations (agreement no AD/2/1/2013). The project was financed by the Rector’s Fund for Development of Didactics „Ars Docendi”;
  • a laureate (2010/2011) of the Jagiellonian University Rector award for educational achievements.