Piotr Oczko
Piotr Oczko is a Polish, English and Dutch studies scholar, cultural studies scholar, art historian, and translator, professor at the Jagiellonian University.
Biography
He graduated in English and Polish philology from the Jagiellonian University, in 1997 and 2000 respevtively. In 1997 he received the translation award from the Flemish Ministry of Culture in Brussels, in 2000 a scholarship from the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, in 2006 a scholarship from the Adam Krzyżanowski Fund, and in 2010 and 2014 the Rector's Prize of the Jagiellonian University.He obtained doctorate in 2002 and habilitation in 2014. In 2022 he obtained the title of professor of art sciences.
His research interests include the literature and [Dutch Dutch culture (disambiguation)|culture (disambiguation)|culture] of Dutch-speaking countries, early Polish, English and German literature, medieval drama, New historicism, issues of evil in culture, national identities and stereotypes, LGBT studies, and art history, including seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting, emblematics, artistic crafts of the 17th-19th centuries, the history of European ceramics – especially Dutch tiles and delftware.
He has published in Znak.