Ewa Skwara
Professor of Latin
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Ewa Skwara (born 1962) is Professor of Latin at the Institute of Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

Her research focuses on Roman comedy and theatre. She is the author of monographs on Roman comedy (2001) and Terence (2016). She has translated selected comedies by Plautus into Polish, with introductions and notes (2002, 2003, 2004, 2017), as well as all of Terence’s plays (2005, 2006). In 2004, she received the prize for best poetry translation from the journal “Literatura na Świecie”. She published the first unabridged Polish translation of Ovid’s “Ars amatoria” (2008, 2016) and the first Polish translation of Piccolomini’s humanist comedy “Chrysis” (2017).

Her monograph on Terence (“Comedy according to Terence”, 2016) received the Brückner Prize from the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in 2017. The prize is awarded every four years for achievements in literature and philology.

She has also written extensively on translation theory as well as the reception of antiquity in literature and film.

Education

1986
M.A. (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
1994
Ph.D. (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
2002
Habilitation (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
2018
Professor

Academic Appointments

2018
Professor

Administrative Appointments

1998 – 2001
Chair of the Poznań branch of the Polish Philological Society
1999 – 2005
Deputy Director of the Institute of Classical Studies (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
2005 – 2012
Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Polish and Classical Studies (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

Awards & Honours

1998
Scholarship awarded by the Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel, Germany)
1998, 2001, 2006
Scientific Award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (Warsaw, Poland)
1999
Scholarship awarded by the Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde (Kiel, Germany)
2000, 2004, 2007, 2012
Scholarship awarded by the Foundation of Lanckoroński de Brzezie (London, Great Britain)
2000, 2009
Scholarship awarded by the Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein (Vienna, Austria)
2003, 2015
Academic grant awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science (Warsaw, Poland)
2004
Literary prize awarded by the journal “Literatura na Świecie” for best poetry translation
2017
Brückner Prize awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) for achievements in literature and philology

Membership in Professional Associations

Since 1986
Polish Philological Society (Chair of the Poznań branch, 1998–2001)
Since 2010
Poznań Society of the Friends of Sciences (Poznań, Poland)
Since 2011
Committee on Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland)

Books

Articles