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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.
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 from the Polish filology Course at UFPR. He worked as a professor of the Polish language in the project "Licenciar" and in the Center for Languages and Interculturality at UFPR. One of the translators of the book "The demon of movement" by Stefan Grabiński. Interested in foreign languages, translation and linguistics.
Milena Woitovicz Cardoso
Member
Master´s student in filology
Bachelor´s degree in Polish Languages at UFPR
Bachelor´s degree in History from UFPR
Bachelor´s degree in Law school from Unicuritiba
Researcher in the field of Polish literature
Translator in training
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.
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