Dr. Michał Panasiuk, assistant professor at the Department of South Asia, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw; cultural and literary scholar, a research and teaching employee. In his capacity of an academic teacher, he gives courses on modern Bengali and lectures on Bengali literature, and other aspects of South Asian culture.
His research focuses on the poetics of Middle Bengali texts written between the 15th and 19th centuries in the area of today’s India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. He is particularly interested in Bengali manuscripts, the problem of distribution and reading/receiving literary texts before the introduction of printing in Bengal, Muslim authors writing until the 19th century, and Bengali literary idioms of Sylheti Nagari and dobhashi.
He has participated in Bengali manuscript research workshops in European (Paris) and non-European centres (Morocco, Bangladesh).
He has translated a selection of Wisława Szymborska’s poems into Bengali. He is currently working on a book on the 18th-century poetics in Bengali literature and translating several contemporary Bengali novels.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5213-4260