Joanna Kosmalska graduated in English from University of Lodz, having studied at University College Dublin in Ireland and Flensburg Universität in Germany.
In 2008-2009, she carried out research on teaching English to immigrant pupils in primary schools in Dublin greater area. The results of her research were partially published in “Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis” (2012) and laid the groundwork for an EU funded postgraduate teacher training programme which she ran at the University of Lodz (www.anglista.uni.lodz.pl). In 2011-2015, she initiated and led the international project “Polish (E)migration Literature in Britain and Ireland since 2004” which was financed by the National Science Centre (www.emigracja.uni.lodz.pl/en). In 2016-2019, she was a co-investigator in “Talking Transformations: Home on the Move” project at King’s College London (http://www.talkingtransformations.eu). She is currently part of the research network “Experimental Translation” funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Within this project, the collaborative research on intersemiotic translation and multilingualism will be conducted in 2021- 2022 (https://cleurope.eu/2020/11/19/ahrc-award-for-experiential-translation-network/).
She is a member of Cultural Literacy Everywhere association (http://cleurope.eu). She was invited to give lectures at universities in Germany, Ireland, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. She has published a number of interviews with writers and articles on Polish writing in Ireland and the UK. She works as a film and literary translator.
Her research interests include the impact of migration on contemporary literature and culture in Poland, Britain and Ireland, contemporary Irish and British prose, literary translation, film translation, intersemiotic translation, multiculturalism, multilingualism and transnationalism.
Grants:
- Awans dla anglisty (project coordinator, 2011-2013): anglista.uni.lodz.pl
- Polska literatura (e)migracyjna w Irlandii i Wielkiej Brytanii po roku 2004 (deputy coordinator, 2011-2016): http://emigracja.uni.lodz.pl/pl/
- Talking Transformations: Home on the Move (co-investigator, 2016-2019): http://www.talkingtransformations.eu
- Experimental Translation (participant, 2021-2022): https://cleurope.eu/2020/11/19/ahrc-award-for-experiential-translation-network/
Organisation of conferences:
- Research in the Arts, the Arts in Research (2020)
- Poles Away. Migrations in Literature (2014)
- Intercultural dialogue/ Dialog międzykulturowy (2011)
Visiting fellowships: Universität Giessen, Niemcy (2018); Universität Passau, Niemcy (2015, 2016); KU Leuven, Belgia (2016)