Olga Kubińska

Olga Kubińska is an Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk's Faculty of Languages, Institute of English and American Studies, where she chairs the Division of English Language Translation Studies and heads the Postgraduate Programme in Translation Studies. With academic appointments since 1999 and promotion to Associate Professor in 2015, she maintains active roles in the Polish Shakespeare Association (President 2015-2018) and Polish Writers' Association (Secretary of Gdańsk Branch 2016-2021).

Her research interests span Holocaust literature (particularly women's experiences and Polish-Jewish relations), early modern English literature, translation studies, utopian literature, and bilingual poetry. Her work explores memory representation in post-Holocaust contexts, scaffold narratives in Tudor-Stuart England, and the sociological dimensions of translation. She has pioneered project-based pedagogy in translator training and developed innovative approaches to participatory pedagogy.

Kubińska's publications reveal a consistent focus on memory, translation, and cultural representation across 25+ years. Her recent work (2021-2024) shows increasing emphasis on decolonizing Holocaust memory, visual commemoration practices, and utopian memory spaces in Polish contexts. Earlier publications demonstrate foundational work on Shakespearean rhetoric, scaffold narratives, and conceptual blending in translation.

• Award of the Rector of the University of Gdańsk (2024, 2022)
• Medal of the Commission of National Education (2019)
• Literary Award of the City of Gdańsk (1995)
• Collective Award for Translation Studies innovation (2011)

As a supervisor and academic leader, she has guided 5 doctoral theses to completion (including Maciej Kur's summa cum laude dissertation), reviewed 4 doctoral theses, and supervised over 150 MA/BA projects. Her grant leadership includes the NPRH project on utopian literature translation and research on Polish Holocaust memory spaces. She co-founded the 'Translating the Untranslatable' book series and serves on editorial boards for multiple peer-reviewed journals.