Katarzyna Marciniak

(University of Warsaw, Poland)

Katarzyna Marciniak is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA) at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw. In 2011 she established the “Our Mythical Childhood” programme, putting together scholars from various continents with the aim of studying the reception of Classical Antiquity in youth culture (edited volumes: Our Mythical Childhood, Brill 2016, and Chasing Mythical Beasts, in press, Winter 2020). She is a laureate of the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Award, and the ERC Consolidator Grant. She writes also for children: in 2016 her poems received a Nomination for the Book of the Year of the Polish Section of the IBBY.