Prof. Joanna DYBIEC-GAJER, PhD (habilitatus)

Position:

• Professor of the Pedagogical University

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Head of Department of Translation Education,
• Deputy Chair of the Council of the Discipline of Linguistics,
• Study Programme Advisor,
• Quality Assurance Committee, Member.

Degrees:

• 2014; DLitt (Ling.);
  Thesis: “Zmierzyć przekład? Z metodologii oceniania w dydaktyce przekładu pisemnego”;
  Reviewers: prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Tabakowska, prof. dr hab. Danuta Gabryś-Barker, prof. dr hab. Anna Bednarczyk, prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Szczerbowski.

• 2004; PhD;
  Universität Paderborn, Niemcy;
  Thesis: “Guidebook Gazes: Poland in American and German Travel Guides (1945-2002)”, Münster: Lit Verlag;
  Supervisors: prof. dr hab. Peter Freese, prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Tabakowska.

• 1997; MA;
  Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie;
  Thesis: “Looking for Lost Motivations: linguistic, sociological and historical considerations of the lexeme bread in English, German and Polish”;
  Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Tabakowska.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics,
• Translation Studies.

Department:

• Department for Translation Education.

Research Interests:

• Theory and practice of translation,
• Translation studies research methodology,
• Children’s literature in translation,
• Translator training,
• Translation quality assessment,
• Travel writing and translation.

Teaching:

• Translation Studies Research Methods,
• Translation Projects,
• Transcreation,
• Interpreting,
• Translating for Academic Purposes,
• MA Seminar.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• European Society for Translation Studies (EST),
• Krakow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies,
• Consortium for Translation Education Research.

Membership of Boards of Scholarly Journals:

• Tertium Linguistic Journal,
• {wy}tłumaczenia, seria wydawnicza, Universitas.

Selected visiting lectures:

• 2018; Beit Berl College, Izrael;
• 2012; Universitat de Barcelona, Hiszpania;
• 2009; İstanbul Üniversitesi, Stambuł, Turcja;
• 2008; Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugalia;
• 2008; University of Cyprus, Cypr;
• 2006; Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Niemcy;
• 2006; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Faculdad de Educatión, Hiszpania.

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• 2021, “Mediating Practices in Translating Children’s Literature: Tackling Controversial Topics, eds”. J. Dybiec-Gajer, A. Gicala, Berlin: Peter Lang.
• 2020, “Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children’s Literature: From Alice to the Moomins”, eds. J. Dybiec-Gajer, R. Oittinen, M. Kodura, Singapore: Springer.
• 2019, “Słownik polskiej terminologii przekładoznawczej”, Ł. Bogucki, J. Dybiec-Gajer, M. Piotrowska, T. Tomaszkiewicz, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka.
• 2017, “Złota różdżka – od książki dla dzieci po dreszczowiec raczej dla dorosłych”.
• 2013, “Zmierzyć przekład? Z metodologii oceniania w dydaktyce przekładu pisemnego”, Kraków: Universitas [Measuring Translation? Towards an Assessment Methodology in Translator Education].

Articles:

• 2020, “Fan Communities as Mediators of Cultural Diversity : Local Comics Go English: A Case Study of Kajko and Kokosz Comic Translation”, Kulturelle Diversität in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Übersetzung und Rezeption / edited by Beate Sommerfeld, Eliza Pieciul-Karmińska and Michael Düring, Berlin: Peter Lang.
• 2020, “Mixing Moralizing with Enfreakment: Polish-Language Rewritings of Heinrich Hoffmann’s Classic Struwwelpeter (1845)”, Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature / edited by Anna Kérchy, Björn Sundmark, Cham: Palgrave.
• 2011, “Guided Gazes or Travelling in a Translated World? Practices and Performances of Translation on the Polish Guidebook Market”, Conference Proceedings, Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World, Leeds: Center for Tourism and Cultural Exchange.
• 2017, „Paradoksy profesjonalizacji”, Między Oryginałem a Przekładem.