Maria Piotrowska
Institution: Pedagogical University of Cracow
Country: Poland
Maria Piotrowska – a translation practitioner, researcher and educator; professor at Pedagogical University (UP), Krakow and UNESCO Chair for Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication at Jagiellonian University; Head of the Chair for Translator Education at UP; Head of the BA and MA programme in Translation Studies at UP; founding member of the Cracow Society for the Promotion of Language Studies TERTIUM and its editor of the translation series; member of EGPS project; member of EST; sworn translator of English; author and editor of translation publications in English and Polish, e.g. Learning Translation – Learning the Impossible? (1997/2003/2010), A Compensational Model for Strategy and Techniques in Teaching Translation (2002); Proces decyzyjny tłumacza (2007).