Piotr Wilczek

Piotr Wilczek

Piotr Wilczek (born April 26, 1962) is a Polish intellectual historian, specialist in Comparative Literature and literary translator.

Academic career

Piotr Wilczek graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland (1986) where he received his Ph.D. (1992) and Habilitation degrees (2001). In 2006 he was nominated professor of the humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland.

He was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Silesia (1986–2008), where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Languages (2002–2008). Since 2008 he has been a tenured full professor at the Faculty of „Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw and has served there as Head of the Collegium Artes Liberales (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) and Chair of the Committee on the Study of the Reformation in Poland and East-Central Europe.

He did his postgraduate work in intellectual history and Neo-Latin Studies at the Universities of Oxford (St Anne’s College, 1988) and Łódź, Poland (1989). He was a visiting translator at The British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia (1994, 1996). In 1998-2001 he was a visiting professor at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago and gave invited public lectures at Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin. He was also a visiting scholar at Boston College and Cleveland State University. He is a visiting professor at the Academy of Finance and Business Vistula (Vistula University) in Warsaw.

He has been a board member of numerous international scholarly journals (e.g. “Reformation and Renaissance Review”, “The Sarmatian Review”) and academic initiatives (including The International Reformation Research Consortium and the Post-Reformation Digital Library), and a member of several professional organizations (e.g. Modern Language Association of America, the Polish Literary Translators' Association). Since 2014 Representative in Poland of the Kosciuszko Foundation, Inc. (New York) and President of the Management Board of the Kosciuszko Foundation Poland.


Books

Books in English (authored and edited)

Books in Polish (authored and edited)

Translations from English into Polish

Sources

External links

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