Piotr Wilczek

Piotr Wilczek (born April 26, 1962) is a Polish intellectual historian, a specialist in comparative literature and a literary translator, who currently^[update] serves as the Ambassador of Poland to the United States.

Piotr Wilczek graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland (1986) where he received his Ph.D. (1992) and Habilitation (2001) degrees. In 2006 he was nominated professor of the humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland.

He was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Silesia (1986–2008), where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Languages (2002–2008). Since 2008 he has been a tenured full professor at the Faculty of „Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw and has served there as Head of the Collegium Artes Liberales (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) and Head of the Centre for the Study of the Reformation and Intellectual Culture in Early Modern Europe.

He did his postgraduate work in intellectual history and Neo-Latin Studies at the Universities of Oxford (St Anne’s College, 1988) and Łódź, Poland (1989). He was a visiting translator at The British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia (1994, 1996). In 1998-2001 he was a visiting professor at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago and gave invited public lectures at Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin. He was also a visiting scholar at Boston College and Cleveland State University.

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