Jan Rybicki

Jan Rybicki (b. 1963) is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. He also taught at Houston’s Rice University and the Pedagogical University of Krakow. His interests include translation studies, comparative literature and applications of computing and statistics in the humanities, especially stylometry and authorship attribution. He has written extensively on the reception of Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz in English-language countries (using both traditional and non-traditional methods). Rybicki is also an active literary translator of some thirty novels by such authors as Coupland, Fitzgerald, Golding, Gordimer, Ishiguro, Oe, le Carré or Winterson.