Piotr Wilczek


Piotr Antoni Wilczek is a Polish intellectual historian, a specialist in comparative literature and a literary translator, who serves as the Ambassador of Poland to the United States.

Academic career

Piotr Wilczek graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland where he received his Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees. In 2006 he was nominated professor of the humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. Doctor of Humane Letters of Cleveland State University.
He was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Silesia, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Languages. Since 2008 he has been a tenured full professor at the Faculty of „Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw and until 2016 served there as Head of the Collegium Artes Liberales 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 and Łódź, Poland. He was a visiting translator at The British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia. 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.
He has been a board member of numerous international scholarly journals, book series and academic initiatives, and a member of several professional organizations. Since 2014 Representative in Poland of the Kosciuszko Foundation, Inc. and President of the Management Board of the Kosciuszko Foundation Poland. Member of the American Study Group at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.

Diplomatic career

Starting November 9, 2016, Wilczek is serving as the Ambassador of Poland to the United States, succeeding Ryszard Schnepf.

Books

Books in English (authored and edited)