Monika Chwalczuk is a Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting at the School of Media, Languages and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia. Previously she lectured at Université de Paris (France) and University of Warwick (UK) where she was affiliated respectively with the Department of Intercultural Studies and Applied Languages, and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures.

In 2022-2024 Dr Chwalczuk worked as the principal investigator of the CoGCIn project (Cognitive Processes behind the use of Gestures in Consecutive Dialogue Interpreting) funded from a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual post-doctoral grant. The fellowship was part of the PASIFIC program for research and innovation, supported jointly by the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the European Commission.

Monika Chwalczuk received a PhD in Translation Studies from Université Paris Cité (France), where in 2021 she defended a dissertation on the role of co-speech gestures in public service interpreting analysed through the lens of multimodal corpora. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Specialised Translation and Language Teaching, completed at the Institute of Applied Linguistics of the University of Warsaw (Poland).

Her interdisciplinary research combines the fields of public service interpreting, gestures studies and cognitive linguistics. The range of methods implemented in her studies spans the use of multimodal corpora, behavioural data and self-reported measures obtained in experimental settings, as well as psychophysiological data such as EEG and HRV.

public service interpreting, consecutive dialogue interpreting, community translation, intercultural communication, migration and inclusion, multimodal corpora, gesture studies, embodied cognition, cognitive load

2022-2024 Post-doc, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship
Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

2021 - PhD in Language Sciences, Translation Studies
Université Paris Cité, France

2016 - MA in Translation Studies (POL-FR-ENG) 
Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Master thesis summa cum laude

2014 - BA in Linguistics
Institute of French Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Chancellor’s Academic Achievement Award

French as a Foreign Language, Translation and Interpreting, Multimodality and Gesture Studies, Cognitive Interpreting Studies

Module Organiser for the following modules:

• Introduction to Public Service Interpreting
• French Year 2 Honours 

Other teaching roles:

• Introduction to Conference Interpreting
• Translation for French Year 2 Honours

Affiliation with scientific associations and research groups:

• European Society for Translation Studies (EST)
• Critical Link International (CLI)
• Migration, Identity, and Translation Network (MITN)
• International Community Translation Research Groups (ICTRG)
• Translation Research, Empiricism and Cognition (TREC)
• International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS)
• International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
• International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA)

Peer review contributions to academic journals:

• Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (Taylor and Francis)
• Target - International Journal of Translation Studies (John Benjamins)
• Translation & Interpreting (University of Western Sydney)
• Parallèles (University of Geneva)