dr Katarzyna Madyjewska

Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Translation Studies
Room: 3.621
E-mail: k.madyjewska@uw.edu.pl
Duty hours: Tuesday 13:00-14:00, Thursday 11:15-12:15

Degrees obtained:

PhD in Literary Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2006
MA in Spanish Philology, University of Warsaw, 2001

Research interests:

cultural aspects of translation
idiomaticity in translation
text registers in translation
translation of specialized texts

Teaching experience:

translation of texts of science and technology
translation of banking and financial texts
translation of legal texts
translation of texts of economics
general written translation workshops
text registers in translation
idiomaticity in translation

Professional experience:

since 2012 sworn translator and interpreter of Spanish
since 2008 IPSKT Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies in Translation and Interpreting: legal translation workshops
2008 Spanish language course for construction, renewable energy and business Spanish, Machina Edukacyjna
since 2007 lecturer at ILS, since 2008 assistant professor at ILS
2006-2007 translator and interpreter, Budimex S.A. (range: architecture, construction, security systems, traffic systems, computer science, firefighting, airport systems, law)

Organizational experience – member of conference teams:

2012 coorganiser of the lectures “Jueves de cultura en español” in ILS, in cooperation with Consejería de Educación en Polonia
since 2008 coordinator of the Spanish section in ILS
since 2009 coordinator of the entrance exams for MA programme in the Spanish section of ILS
since 2009 member of the examination board for the entrance exams for candidates with foreign secondary school leaving certificate for BA programme at ILS
member of the examination board for postgraduate studies IPSKT in ILS (2010, 2012)

Professional organizations – membership:

Polish Association of Hispanists
Polish Society of Sworn and Specialized Translators TEPIS

Papers read at international conferences:

October 2013 – “Dydaktyka przekładu w oczach studenta”, International Conference Methodological Challenges for the Contemporary Translator Educators, Cracow
October 2013 – “Alusiones culturales en la prensa española – ¿trampa o aliado del traductor?”, International Conference Translatio and Culture, Warsaw
September 2013 – “Enseñar a traducir: ¿trabajo de profesor tutor o de profesor guía?”, X Congreso Internacional Traducción, Textos e Interferencias, Augsburg, Germany
November 2012 – “La traducción de las alusiones al cine español en el lenguaje coloquial y periodístico”, Simposio Internacional de Hispanistas Encuentros 2012, Wrocław
April 2012 – “El traductor ante las alusiones literarias, históricas y políticas en España, como nuevos modismos en el periodismo”, X Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General, Zaragoza, Spain
March 2012 – “When the dictionary does not help. Phraseology and winged words of Spanish politics in translation“, Język III Tysiąclecia, Cracow

Scholarships. Guest lectures and workshops.

2015 – workshop “Social, Property and Life Insurance – typical Polish and Spanish terms”, for the Polish Society of Sworn and Specialised Translators TEPIS
2015 – workshop “Typical terms and structure of Spanish and Polish medical documents”, for the Polish Society of Sworn and Specialised Translators TEPIS
2013 – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ERASMUS Staff Mobility, lecture “Alusiones culturales en la traducción de textos periodísticos”
2012 – special guest of 7th Student Translation Workshops, lecture “Styles of expression in translation”, Cracow
2011 – participant of the discussion Translator of scientific and technical texts – a craftsman or an artist?, Warsaw Book Fair
2002-2005 scholarship of AECI Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, doctoral studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2015 – szkolenie TEPIS Tłumacz w sądzie – kontradyktoryjny proces karny
2015 – konferencja TEPIS Przyszłość zawodu tłumacza przysięgłego i specjalistycznego – nowe wyzwania, szkolenia: Emisja głosu, Poprawność gramatyczna w tekstach specjalistycznych

Others:

2015 – seminar Translator in court – adversarial criminal trial
2015 – conference of the Polish Society of Sworn and Specialised Translators TEPIS The Future of the Sworn and Specialised translator, seminars: Voice emission, Grammatical correctness in specialized texts
2014 – XXIX Seminar on Specialised and Legal Translation
2014 – conference Lifelong learning and Didactics in Higher Education, and seminar “Selected Training Methods Encouraging Students Learning and Developing Students Competences”
2014 – member of the expert team of the National Science Centre (NCN)
2013 – Certificate of visited classes in the framework of the “Improvement of the UW Academic Teachers”
2013 – seminar: Modern University
2013 – seminar: Copyright for translators
2012 – seminar: Legal responsability of sworn translators
2010-2011 School of Spanish Law, one year studies at the Faculty of Law, UW
2009-2010 Train for trainers, led by HCF, certificate of coach of internal competencies for business
2004 seminar Spanish novel (1975-2002), Fundación Universitaria Española, Madrid
2003 seminar Spanish theatre in the XVII c., Fundación Universitaria Española, Madrid
2003 International congress “The significance and meaning of Spanish international classical theater”, Madrid
2002 seminar Short form theatre in the XX century ,Fundación Universitaria Española, Madrid
2001 Postgraduate studies in the humanities, Polish Academy of Sciences
2000 scholarship, Seminar of Spanish language and culture, advanced level, Madrid
2000 seminar Español comercial, Instituto Cervantes, Warsaw