Piotr PLICHTA, PhD

Position:

• Assistant professor,

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Lecturer at the Chair for Translator Education

Degrees:

• 2015; PhD;
  University of Silesia;
  Thesis: “Wygasłe kody językowe w rosyjskim przekładzie Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Johna Donne’a”;/”The issue of translation of obsolete language codes in the Russian translations of John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Deaths Duell”;
  Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Piotr Fast;
  Reviewer: dr hab. prof zwyczajny UW Piotr Wilczek; dr hab. prof UW Dorota Urbanek.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics

Department:

• Department of Translator Education

Research Interests:

• Literary translation,
• Early Modern English Literature

Teaching:

• B.A. Seminar
• Texts of culture in Translation
• Texts of Culture (extramural courses)
• M.A. Seminar (extramural courses)

Membership in Academic Societies:

• N/A

Selected visiting lectures:

• N/A

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• “A Mazing Labyrinth: John Donne’s Prose in Translation”. Wydawnictwo Naukowe UP, Kraków 2021. A comprehensive study on the modern translations of John Donne’s late prose works and on the issue of textual coherence in literary translation.

Articles:

• “John Donne. Medytacje. Alembik śmierci”. Śląsk, Katowice 2014. Full Polish translation and critical introduction to John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Deaths,
• “Body of Death versus Godhead: Alchemical Imagery and the Emblematic structure of John Donne’s Death’s Duell”. International Journal of Arts & Sciences,CD-ROM. ISSN: 1944-6934 :: 08(08):177–182 (2015).
• “Of Devils and Daemons: Theological Horror Mediated in the Contemporary Translations of C.S. Lewis’s “ The Screwtape Letters in: Mediating practices in translating children’s literature: tackling controversial topics, Peter Lang, Berlin 2021, pp. 85-96.
• “French Faeries and Alliterative Plays in Lucy Peacock’s Adaptation of Edmund Spenser’s Poem The Faerie Queene” in: Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children’s Literature : From Alice to the Moomins, Springer, Singapore 2020, pp. 227-238.
• “Przekład elementów awangardowych w polskich i rosyjskich tłumaczeniach wierszy Charlesa Bukowskiego”, MIĘDZY ORYGINAŁEM A PRZEKŁADEM, nr 3, 2020, s. 49-64.