mgrMaria Kuczek
Doktorantka (PhD student)
Websites/Profiles
Degrees
- B.A. in English Philology, Translation Specialisation, AMU Faculty of English 2021
- M.A. in English Philology, Translation Specialisation, AMU Faculty of English 2023
Research interests
- Translation studies
- Translation reception
- Reading research
- Eye-tracking in translation studies
- Eye-tracking in reading research
- Audiovisual translation
- Psycholinguistics
- Bilingualism
Professional experience
- Audiovisual translation – subtitling and voice-over
- Audiodescription
- Written translation
- Proofreading and QC
Papers read at international conferences and congresses
- 8th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP), 19-21 May 2023, (poster created together with the Read Me Project Team)
- 52nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Poznań, 13–15 September 2023 (together with the Read Me Project Team)
- 21st International Congress of Linguists, Poznań, 8-14 September 2024 (together with the Read Me Project Team)
- Fifth International Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (ICTIC 5), 2-4 June 2025, Kristiansand, Norway (together with the Read Me Project Team)
- 11th EST Congress: The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies, 30 June – 3 July 2025, Leeds, England (together with the Read Me Project Team)
- 4th Meeting of the Bertinoro Translation Society (BTS4), 6-9 September 2025, Poznań, Poland (poster and a presentation together with the Read Me Project Team
Other talks
- Noc Anglistów, presentation delivered with the Read Me Project Team, November 2022
- Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, presentation delivered with the Read Me Project Team, June 2022
- Research Day at the AMU Faculty of English, poster presentation with Agata Kucharska in cooperation with the Read Me Project Team, May 2023
- Found in Translation Reading Group: Jestem Tłumaczką: Sesja Q&A z absolwentkami naszych studiów tłumaczeniowych, AMU Faculty of English, June 2024
- Translation presentation and workshop: Za kulisami pracy w AVT, Publiczne Salezjańskie Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Poznaniu, October 2024
- PsychLing Reading Group: How do we read translated language?, AMU Faculty of English, December 2024
- Meet WAcademy – lecture and workshop for high school students, Liceum Ogólnokształcące św. Marii Magdaleny w Poznaniu, co-presented with Zuzanna Witt, April 2025
- Meet WAcademy – lecture and workshop for high school students, XVI Liceum Ogólnokształcące, Poznań, co-presented with Zuzanna Witt, May 2025
- Meet WAcademy – lecture for high school students, III Liceum Ogólnokształcące, Poznań, co-presented with Zuzanna Witt, November 2025
- Noc Anglistów, Meet WAcademy presentation for high school students co-presented with Zuzanna Witt at the AMU Faculty of English, November 2025
Workshops and training
- BIP “Personality and Linguistic and Cultural Mediation.” (Blended Intensive Programme), 25-29 November 2024, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
- MC2 Lab’s 3rd International Summer School on Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 7-18 July 2025, Poznań, Poland
Research Projects
- Reading and Reception of Mediated (translated) Text: The Read Me Project (2021-2025) financed by the National Science Centre (UMO – 2020/39/B/HS2/00697) – research assistant (Principal Investigator – Prof. Bogusława Whyatt)
- The influence of the readers’ linguistic background on the pleasure of reading translated literature – an eye-tracking study, ID-UB Grant (049/34/UAM/0014) – Principal Investigator
Organisational work
- Noc Naukowców at the AMU Faculty of English 2019 – student helper
- 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting 2019 – student helper
- 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań 2021 – student helper
- 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting 2022 – student helper
- 4th Meeting of the Bertinoro Translation Society (BTS4) 2025 – member of the organising committee
- “Peer Progress Project” reading group
- “Meet WAcademy” Project (co-organiser)
Scholarships
- Adam Mickiewicz Rector’s scholarship for academic achievements: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022