Agnieszka Chmiel

Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Office: Collegium Novum, room 303A

Phone: (0-61) 829 3514
e-mail: magnes@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Web page: www.aga.e-chmiel.pl
Duty hours: link

Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2000
  • Ph.D. in English, 2004

Research interests

  • Interpreting Studies
  • Neurolinguistic and neurocognitive aspects of conference interpreting
  • Psycholinguistic processing in interpreting
  • Mnemonics
  • Visual imagery
  • Audiovisual Translation
  • Audio Description

Teaching experience

  • Conference Interpreting (Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreters, Interpreting Strategies, Polish-English and English-Polish Simultaneous Interpreting, Interpreting of Business Texts, Consecutive Interpreting)
  • Translation of Business Texts
  • TEFL at university level
  • M.A. Seminar in Translation Studies
  • Community Interpreting: Education and Social Issues

Other professional experience

  • Practicing translator and conference interpreter

Scholarships

  • Institute of Interpreter and Translator Training Vienna University, November 2000
  • Marie Curie Conference Scholarship - MuTra 2006
  • Marie Curie Conference Scholarship - MuTra 2007

Research projects

  • Coordination of the Pear Tree Component (Towards a Common European Standard in Audio Description) in the DTV4ALL project led by Pilar Orero, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Professional organizations

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • Polish Scientific Conference "Specificity of foreign language teaching/learning", Częstochowa, Poland, 2000
  • TEMPUS Program Dissemination Conference, Szczyrk, Poland, 2001
  • April Conference Nine "The Legacy of History: English and American Studies and the Significance of the Past", Kraków, Poland, 2002
  • 7th Congress of International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics:"Challenging tasks for psycholinguistics in the new century", Cieszyn, Poland, 2004
  • Konferencja naukowa PTN: "Nauka języków obcych w dobie integracji europejskiej: tendencje, problemy, zadania", Poznań, Poland, 2004
  • Conference on "Cultural aspects of translating specialist texts" organized by Katedra Języków Specjalistycznych UW, Warsaw, Poland, 2005
  • Multidimensional Translation MUTRA Conference - Audiovisual Translation Scenarios, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
  • Interpreting for Relevance Conference 3, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 2006
  • LICTRA VIII. Leipziger Internationale Konferenz zu Grundfragen der Translatologie, Leipzig, Germany, 2006
  • INTERMEDIA 2007 - Łódź Conference on Interpreting and Audiovisual Translation, Łódź, Poland, 2007
  • Multidimensional Translation MUTRA Conference - LSP Translation Scenarios, Vienna, Austria, 2007
  • 5th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies "Why Translation Studies Matters", Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007
  • TTI 2008 - Teaching Translation and Interpreting, Łódź, Poland, 2008
  • Audio Description for the Arts Seminar/Workshop, Roehampton University, London, UK, 2008
  • International Bilingual Conference - Audiovisual Translation: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Montpellier, France, 2008
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, Poland, 2008

Other events

  • 1st Seminar on Eye-Tracking and Audiovisual Translation, UAB, Barcelona, Spain, 2008

Publications