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Olga Witczak

Last updated by marikaz on 2021-11-05. Originally submitted by tomash on 2015-09-14.

dr Olga Witczak

Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Department of Translation Studies

Office: Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, room 344
Phone: (+48) 61 829 3744
E-mail: olga.witczak@amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link

Websites / Profiles: 

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań, 2013
  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2015: European Master's in Translation: Master's Programme in Specialized and Professional Translation (languages: Polish – A, English – B, German – C)
  • Ph.D. in English linguistics, Poznań, 2021

Research interests

  • Translation studies
  • Translation process research
  • Post-editing of machine translation
  • Computer-assisted translation
  • Eye-tracking in translation studies
  • Reading studies

Teaching experience

  • Computer-assisted translation
  • Specialised vocabulary and translation: science and technology
  • Terminology
  • Audiovisual Translation – Voice-over and subtitling
  • Translation strategies

Other professional experience

  • Laboratory technician and research assistant, LCL, WA AMU
  • Written translation
  • Audiovisual translation – subtitling

Research projects

  • Effect of Directionality in the Translation Process – the EDiT project (2016-2019) financed by the National Science Centre (UMO – 2015/17/B/HS6/03944) – Research Assistant (Principal Investigator – Prof. Bogusława Whyatt)
  • Modulation in laryngeal features – evidence from Polish learners of English, financed by the National Science Centre (UMO-2016/21/B/HS2/00610) – Research Assistant (Principal Investigator – Prof. Geoffrey Schwartz)
  • Polish version of the Copy Task originally developed by Prof. Luuk van Waes and Prof. Marielle Leijten (University of Antwerp, Belgium), (http://inputlog.ua.ac.be/WebSite/copytask/tasks.html), 2017
  • Katalog terminów emocji podstawowych w języku polskim i angielskim, 2018–2021, financed by the National Science Centre, (UMO-2017/26/D/HS6/00035) – Research Assistant (Principal Investigator – dr Halszka Bąk)

Papers read at conferences and congresses

  • 45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2015
  • 1st CTER Congress: Inspirations for Translation Education, Kraków, 2016
  • 8th EST Congress, Aarhus, 2016 (poster)
  • 46th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2016 (a talk with Bartosz Brzoza)
  • 5th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP), Poznań, 2016 (with Bartosz Brzoza)
  • Points of View in Translation and Interpreting, Kraków, 2017 (with Rafał Jaworski)
  • TT3: Translation and Interpreting in Transition 3, Ghent, 2017 (poster)
  • Norma a Uzus III, Poznań, 2018
  • Translation Research – Translator Training, Budapest, 2018
  • 6th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP), Poznań, 2018
  • L2 Translation: Getting Out of the Grey Zone, Charles University, Prague, 2019 (with Bogusława Whyatt, Ewa Tomczak, Marcin Turski)
  • The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning (with Bogusława Whyatt and Ewa Tomczak; presented by Bogusława Whyatt), Łódź, Poland (conference organised online), 2020

Other talks and presentations

  • Psycholinguistics Reading Group, Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 2015
  • WA Translation Reading Group, Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 2016
  • "Found in Translation" Reading Group workshop, Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 2017: Computer-assisted translation in practice: A brief introduction to Memsource
  • XX Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 2017
  • Methods workshop for PhD students at PTJK 2018: Designing eye-tracking experiments in linguistics (with Paweł Korpal)
  • Audiovisual Translation Workshop, The Jacob of Paradies University (Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża), Gorzów, 2019: The art of Audiovisual Translation: A crash course in subtitling
  • "Found in Translation" Reading Group workshop, Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 2019: Audiovisual translation 101: Introduction to subtitling software
  • Online lecture: Nieheteronormatywność w języku in the series Nieheteronormatywność w kontekstach: język, kultura, społeczeństwo Uniwersytet Otwarty, February 2021
  • Online translation workshop, Szkoła Podstawowa nr 1 w Krotoszynie, June 2021: O napisach od kuchni – wprowadzenie do tłumaczenia audiowizualnego

Conference/ Congress organisation

  • 5th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2016), Poznań, Poland, 25-27 November 2016: Assistant to the Organising Committee
  • 6th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2018), Poznan, Poland: Member of the Organising Committee

Specialised training

  • E-Prime course, Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 2016
  • Alchemy Catalyst training, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, AMU, Poznań, 2019

Attended workshops

  • 9th Student Translation Workshop, Kraków, 2014
  • Eye-tracking workshop prepared within the Para-Trans Research Project - decision process in paraphrase and translation, funded by the grant no. DEC - 2012/07/E/HS2/00661 from the National Science Centre Poland. Poznań, 2016
  • „Eye Tracking i Wirtualna Rzeczywistość w praktyce: Najnowsze technologie: Co nowego w eye trackingu? Jak rozwój technologii VR wpływa na możliwości przeprowadzanych badań?” organised by the Neuro Device Group at the Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 29th October 2016
  • Summer School on Process and Product Methodologies in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Gent, 2017
  • EEG training workshop on “The Biosemi Active Two system in neurocognitive research,” Neurostimulus, Poznań, Poland, 25–26 August 2021

Scholarships

  • Adam Mickiewicz University Vice-Chancellor's scholarship for outstanding PhD students, 2017/2018, 2018/2019
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Vice-Chancellor's scholarship for the 30% best PhD students, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Rector’s scholarship for academic achievements, 2017, 2019

Organizations

  • European Society for Translation Studies
  • Konsorcjum do Badań nad Edukacją Tłumaczy
  • Stowarzyszenie Społeczności LGBT+ UAM

Publications