The main research areas of the Faculty of Philology include the dialects of north-eastern Poland, syntax of contemporary Polish, Polish legal language, speech therapy, Romantic literature, the literature of “Great Emigration” (Mickiewicz, Słowacki, Krasiński, Norwid), the relation between Polish literature and the literatures of Western Europe, anthropological, literary and cultural aspects of old age, living in the borderland of national cultures – the intersection of the West and the East, audiovisual culture in Poland

(The Institute of Polish Philology); Polish, Belorussian and Ukrainian onomastics, Belorussian culture, literature and folklore in the Bialystok area, the folk culture of Podlasie, East-Slavic emigration literature, satire in East Slavonic languages (The Institute of East-Slavic Languages, The Department of Belorussian Culture); the interaction of phonetic systems in the speech of bilinguals, the status of the foreign language in foreign language teacher education, methods of lexical analysis, proverbs and social history, literary travel books, feminist literature and literary criticism, cultural relations between Poland and France

(The Department of English and French); philosophy and theology, understanding of the human being in the context of the development of biomedical knowledge (The Department of Bioethics and Philosophical Anthropology).
Methods of lexical analysis, proverbs and social history, literary travel books, feminist literature and literary criticism, cultural relations between Poland and France (The Department of English and French); philosophy and theology, understanding of the human being in the context of the development of biomedical knowledge (The Department of Bioethics and Philosophical Anthropology).