Appointment of the Deputy Director of the Doctoral School of Humanities

03 09 2025

We are pleased to announce that dr hab. Marta Wojtkowska-Maksymik, prof. ucz., was appointed by the Rector of the University of Warsaw (LINK) as the deputy director of the Doctoral School of Humanities in the 2025-2028 term. Congratulations to the Professor!

Dr hab. Marta Wojtkowska-Maksymik, prof. ucz. – literary scholar by profession (graduate of the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in the Humanities), translator.

Since the beginning of her professional career, she has been associated with the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw. In 2013 Deputy Director of the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Warsaw for Student Affairs (2013). Since 2021 Deputy Director of the Institute of Polish Literature, since 2021 a member of the Council of the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw, and since 2020 a member of the Teaching Council of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw. She collaborates with the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Opole.

Beneficiary of fellowships endowed by Italian government (2002), Lanckoroński Foundation (2004, 2018). She led grants from the National Science Centre, the National Agency for Academic Exchange, and the National Programme for the Development of Humanities. She is currently implementing (as a subcontractor) the project ‘Petrarch in Global Translation. A Genealogy of Western Love’ (funding institutions: The Harvard Centre for Renaissance Italian Studies. Villa i Tatti, The NOMIS Foundation). She is a member of the editorial board of the journals Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo and Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce.

Her research interests include early modern literature (16th-17th centuries), Polish-Italian relationships during the Renaissance and Baroque, and connections between medicine, philosophy (mainly Neoplatonism) and early modern literature. She translated Torquato Tasso’s Amintas, Giovan Battista Guarino’s Pastor fido, and excerpts from Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. Together with Jolanta Dygul, she edits the series ‘Dawna Literatura Włoska. Studia i Źródła’.