Michal Choptiany

Warsaw, Poland

Michal Choptiany

Warsaw, Poland

I am a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw. My current research project, funded by the Polish National Science Centre within the FUGA scheme, is dedicated to the discussions over the calendar reform in late medieval and early modern East-Central Europe and covers contributions of such intellectuals as John of Głogów, Martin Biem of Ilkusz, Benedict Herbest, Jan Latos, Laurentius Suslyga SJ, Jan Brożek, Teodor Tyszkiewicz, et al.

I hold a PhD (with hons.) in history of rhetoric from the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. My dissertation, defended in May 2013, was dedicated to Peter Ramus’ and Omer Talon’s rhetorical theory and several aspects of its application and reception in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

I serve as a research and publications secretary of the Committee on the Study of the Reformation in Poland and East-Central Europe at the Faculty of ‘Artes Liberales’ (University of Warsaw), secretary of the board of the Polish Journal of Philosophy (Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University), as well as an associate of the Autopotret quarterly (Malopolska Institute of Culture, Kraków).

Recently, I completed the Polish translation of J. J. Murphy's Rhetoric in the Middle Ages (to be published by the Tyniec/Homini publishing house in 2014).

  • Work
    • Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
  • Education
    • PhD, History of Literature, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
    • MA, Comparative Literature, Jagiellonian University, Kraków