Piotr Szymczak M.A.

Education:

1999 - 2000 - Oxford University, Oksford
Diploma Course at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

• FCO/OSI Chevening Scholarship
• Graduated with Distinction
• Won OCJHS Best Thesis Prize in 2000 ("The Mosaic Identity of Bruno Schulz")

1999 - Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oksford
One-term research grant

• Batory Foundation grant to complete MA Thesis

1994 - 1999 - University of Warsaw, Warsaw
Master's Diploma in English Literature at the Institute of English Studies Thesis: Changing Stereotypes of Jewishness in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

• Graduated with Distinction
• Head and co-founder of a student study group in Humanities

Current Research Interest:

• Censorship and intentional book destruction in Early Modern England

Publications:

• "Fire in Her Eyes Fire in Her Eyes: Book Destruction as an Element of the Dramatic Code in Early Modern England" (presented at SHINE Conference in Kraków, 2005)
• "Book Destruction and Authorial Anxiety: The Book-As-Man Metaphor in Milton's Areopagitica" (awaiting publication as part of the proceedings of the PASE Conference in Łódź, 2005)
• "Three Remarks on James Merrill's 'The Victor Dog'", Folio, No. 3/4 (1998/1999): 61 - 65
• "Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Prioress's Tale in Religious and Sociohistorical Context", Folio, No. 1 (1997/1998): 83 - 98
• Five book translations into Polish, including the critically acclaimed Konin: A Quest by Theo Richmond (1997) (Polish edition: Sztetl Konin: Poszukiwanie, Media Rodzina, Poznań 2001