Who we are
Our history
The Center for Polish Studies (CEPOL) is a space for research and dissemination of cultures, literatures and languages of Poland and its descendants.The Center was founded in 2020 by Piotr Kilanowski, a professor of Polish Literature at the Department of Polish, German and Classical Literature, and was launched remotely in 2021. The founding of the Center was made possible by the collaboration of the UFPR Humanities Sector and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Curitiba and financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.The space promotes extension courses, disseminates research by teachers and students of the Polish Language Course and has a research and teaching space with a specialized library. Among CEPOL's projects are: the digitization of the historical archives of the Polish community and their descendants in Brazil, a collaborative translation group whose members include teachers, students and graduates of the course, and a research group dedicated to the study of Polish literature.
Our team
Piotr Kilanowski
Coordinator
Piotr Kilanowski has lived in Brazil since 1990 and, since 2009, has been a professor at UFPR. He is founder and coordinator of the Center for Polish Studies. He studied at the Universities of Adam Mickiewicz (Poznań), Brasília (UnB) and Santa Catarina (UFSC) and works in the field of Polish literature. He is also a translator, mainly of Polish poetry.
Alicja Goczyła Ferreira
Vice coordinator
She holds a masters degree in Linguistic Studies from UFPR. Since 2014, she has been a professor of Polish Language and Literature in the Polish Languages course at the Federal University of Paraná. She has experience in the area of filology, with an emphasis on Modern Foreign Languages. In the years 2006-2014 she worked as a Polish language teacher at the UFPR Language Center. She researches the history of Polish immigration and the Polish language in Brazil. She is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
Luiz Henrique Budant
Member
Luiz Henrique Budant is a master´s student in filology, graduated in Polish filology from the Federal University of Paraná (2013), having worked as a substitute professor at the same institution. In the field of literature, his research focuses on Polish interwar literature, with special emphasis on the work of Bruno Schulz, focusing on the concept of language developed both in the author´s literary production and in his letters and critical texts published in Polish periodicals of that period. He also works as a translator.
Marcos Nogas
Member
From Curitiba, aspiring polymath, perpetual antiphronemophobe, continually trying to be better than the day before.
Matheus Moreira Pena
Member
Graduated in Polish Literature at UFPR. He worked as a Polish language teacher in the Licensing Project and at the Center for Languages and Interculturality at UFPR. Translator of the book "Goodbye, Maria and Other Stories" by Tadeusz Borowski. He is interested in foreign languages, translation studies and linguistics.
Milena Woitovicz Cardoso
Member
She graduated with a master's degree in literary studies from the Federal University of Paraná (2024), where she also obtained a bachelor's degree in Polish studies (2022) and history (2011). She worked as a substitute professor in Polish Studies at the same institution (2023-2024). Her research focuses on Polish literature, especially 20th century literature. She also works as a translator.
Sônia Eliane Niewiadomski
Member
She is a professor at the Federal University of Paraná and a doctoral student in the field of Linguistics at the University of São Paulo. She has a degree in Polish filology from the Federal University of Paraná. She has experience in the field of filology, with an emphasis on Modern Foreign Languages, Teaching and Learning of Polish Language as a Foreign Language.
Taís Machado Soares
Member
Undergraduate student in Polish Literature at UFPR. Scholarship holder of the Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program (PIBIC), Notice 2024.
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