prof. ucz. dr hab. Piotr Twardzisz
Position: University Professor- Writing Research Group
- Room: 2.020
- Telephone: +48 22 5526080
- E-mail: p.twardzisz(at)uw.edu.pl
- Duty hours: Wednesday 15:00-16:00, Thursday 13:00-14:00
Degrees:
- MA in English Linguistics, Catholic University of Lublin, 1992
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, 1996
- Habilitacja postdoctoral degree in Linguistics, University of Warsaw, 2014
Postgraduate studies/diplomas:
- Diploma for Graduates (International Relations), University of London, 2010
Postdoc grants and fellowships:
- Umeå University, Sweden, 1998, postdoc grant awarded by Svenska Institutet, Stockholm
- University of California at San Diego, 1999/2000, Senior Scholar Fulbright Grant
Scholarly interests:
- cognitive linguistics
- general linguistics
- corpus linguistics
- specialist discourse (politics, law, international relations)
Employment:
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of English, Catholic University of Lublin, 1992-1995
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of English, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, 1995-1996
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, 1996-2002
- Freelance (sworn) translator, 2003-2006
- Head of Centre for International Cooperation, Warsaw University of Technology, 2007
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Institute of Specialist and Intercultural Communication, University of Warsaw, 2007-2015
- Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, 2015-
Collaboration:
- external reviewer for LinguistikOnline
Research projects:
- The semantics of the term ‘Eastern Europe’ and related terms in international media discourse, NCN grant (the Polish National Science Centre) no. 2013/11/B/HS2/02852, OPUS 6, 2014-2016, function – principal investigator
Membership:
- The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
- The International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL)
- The British Association for Slavonic, and East European Studies (BASEES)
Guest lecturer:
- Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, 1998
- Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States, 2000
