Tomasz Swoboda
Professor
Essayist and translator, Tomasz Swoboda teaches literature (Polish, Spanish, French and Francophone), translation, and performing arts in the Faculty of Languages at the University of Gdansk. He is the author of works devoted to art and literature, in Polish (doctoral thesis on decadent literature; collections of essays on translation) and in French (Histoires de l’œil, Amsterdam - New York 2013). He has translated into Polish, among others, works by Proust, Baudelaire, Nerval, Barthes, Bataille, Caillois, Leiris, Ricœur, Didi-Huberman, Mouawad, Le Corbusier, La Bible by Serge Bloch and Frédéric Boyer as well as the Ariol comics series. He has published over a hundred articles and participated in several conferences in Poland and abroad. He was a visiting professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès and at the University of West Bretagne. He also co-directed a research project on popular culture with the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve.
