Kasia Szymanska

I am a Senior Lecturer (associate professor) in the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, and the author of Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2025). My research lies in the intersection between literary translation, multilingual writing and politics. I am currently working on two co-edited volumes: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Modernism and Translation (with Rebecca Beasley) and The Tender Translator: Olga Tokarczuk Across Languages (with Joanna T. Huss). My work to date has appeared in, among others, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, Slavic and East European Journal, and I was named the 2022 Martha Cheung Award winner for the best English article in Translation Studies by an early career scholar. I am also the initiator of the Translating Burgess / Burgess Translating project, run in collaboration with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, which was supported by the AHRC's CDA funding.

Prior to joining Manchester, I was an assistant professor in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College Dublin (2019-2022), and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2016-2019). I hold a DPhil in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in European Literature and Culture from the University of Cambridge.

You can find out more about my ongoing work here.