Prof. Agnieszka GICALA, PhD (habilitatus)

Position:

• Professor of the Pedagogical University

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Secretary of the Commission for the Recognition of Foreign Diplomas,
• Chair of the Admissions Committee for the second-cycle degree extramural programme.

Degrees:

• 2019; doktor habilitowany in the field of the humanities;
  Pedagogical University of Krakow, Faculty of Philology;
  Thesis: “Translating a Worldview. Linguistic Worldview in Literary Translation”;
  Reviewers: prof. dr hab. Anna Bendarczyk, University of Lodz; prof. dr hab. Piotr Fast, University of Silesia dr hab. Adam Głaz, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.

• 2005; PhD in the field of linguistics;
  Jagiellonian University in Kraków; Faculty of the Humanities
  Thesis: “Expressing the Inexpressible in Mystical Experience. Conceptual Metaphor and Blending in “The Cloud of Unknowing” and in its Translations: Underlying Image Scheme and Axiology”;
  Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Tabakowska, Jagiellonian University;
  Reviewers: prof. dr hab. Maria Dzielska, Jagiellonian University; dr hab. Bogusław Bierwiaczonek, University of Silesia.

• 1996; MA in English Philology;
  Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Faculty of the Humanities
  Thesis: “Imagination in Grammar: The Function of Metaphor in Selected Theories of Grammar and their Translation”;
  Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Tabakowska, Jagiellonian University.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics

Department:

• Department of Translator Education.

Research Interests:

• Literary translation,
• Linguistic worldview in translation,
• Metaphor in translation,
• Cognitive linguistics and translation,
• Language of religion in translation.

Teaching:

• Intercultural Pragmatics,
• Instroduction to Translation Studies 2,
• Academic Text Analysis,
• MA Seminar for Year 1,
• MA Seminar for Year 2,

Membership in Academic Societies:

• Krakow Society for the Promotion of Knowledge about Language Communication TERTIUM,
• Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association (PCLA),
• Consortium for Translation Education Research,
• European Society for Translation Studies (EST).

Selected visiting lectures:

• N/A

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• “Przekładanie obrazu świata. Językowy obraz świata w przekładzie artystycznym” (seria pt. {wy}tłumaczenia pod red. prof. dr hab. Elżbiety Tabakowskiej, dr hab. Ewy Daty-Bukowskiej i dr hab. Joanny Dybiec-Gajer), TAiWPN UNIVERSITAS, Kraków 2018, ISBN 97883-242-3194-2, e-ISBN 97883-242-3194-9
• “Expressing the Inexpressible in Mystical Experience. Conceptual Metaphor and Blending in Translations of “The Cloud of Unknowing”” 2006. Łask: Oficyna Wydawnicza LEKSEM, ISBN 978-83-60178-25-9.

Articles:

• „Conceptual disintegration as a linguistic worldview in Wisława Szymborska’ poem “Identyfikacja” and its translation by Clare Cavanagh”, w: The Linguistic Worldview: Ethnolinguistics, Culture, and Cognition. (red. Adam Głaz, David S. Danaher and Przemysław Łozowski), London: Versita, 2013, ISBN 978-83-7656-072-4, (E-ISBN 978-83-7656-074-8), , ss. 61-75
• „Przekład obrazka i obrazu świata – najnowsze polskie tłumaczenia Struwwelpetera Heinricha Hoffmanna” w: „Orbis Linguarum” vol. 48/2018; tom pt. Przestrzenie literatury niemieckiej (red. Edward Białek, Angela Bajorek, Małgorzata Chrobak), Dresden – Wrocław: Neisse Verlag & Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT. ISSN 1426-7241; ISBN 978-83-7977-376-3. ss. 273-287.
• „FREEDOM w języku angielskim” w: Leksykon aksjologiczny Słowian i ich sąsiadów. Tom 4. WOLNOŚĆ, red. Maciej Abramowicz i Jerzy Bartmiński, Lublin: Wyd. UMCS, 2019, ISBN 978-83-227-9163-9, ss. 597-618
• „How can one word change a world? Black humour and nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its Polish translations from the cognitive-ethnolinguistic perspective” w: Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children’s Literature. From Alice to the Moomins, red. Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, Riitta Oittinen i Małgorzata Kodura, seria: New Frontiers in Translation Studies, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte, 2020, ss. 125-138, ISSN 2197-8689, e-ISSN 2197-8697, ISBN 978-981-15-2432-5, e-ISBN 978-981-15-2433-2
• „Translations as icebergs, translators as navigators: a poetic case study” w: Półrocznik naukowy „Porównania”, Nr 1 (26), 2020: „Czynnik ludzki w przekładzie literackim – teorie, historie, praktyki”, ISSN 1733-165X, DOI, ss. 267-280.