Hanna Rutkowska

Hanna Rutkowska is an Associate Professor at the Department of the History of English, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. With a D.Litt. in Linguistics (2015), her career spans medieval and early modern English language studies, focusing on orthography, phonology, and morphosyntax.

Her research explores:

• Late Middle English and Early Modern English writing systems
• Historical sociolinguistics through commercial correspondence (e.g., Cely Letters)
• Standardization processes in 15th-17th century English printing
• Paratextual elements in early educational texts like The Schoole of Vertue

Key publication trends include:

• Orthographic regularization in early printed books
• Printer-driven spelling consistency
• Grapheme-phoneme mapping evolution
• Role of typographical communities in language standardization

She has collaborated on international projects involving:

• Digitization of Chaucer manuscripts (2007-2009)
• Scientific English manuscript corpora (2015-2017)

As a conference organizer and advisory board member for De Gruyter Open, she contributes to academic discourse while teaching descriptive grammar and historical English at AMU.