Jan Rybicki (UJ): Drawing Literature

Location: BUW, ul.Dobra 55/56 Warsaw, room 315, 2016rd floor. The Computational Stylistics Group is an informal research group associating academics from the Jagiellonian University, the Pedagogical University of Krakow and the University of Antwerp. The group is involved in creating computer tools for quantitative text analysis and promoting them among researchers around the world. The group's best-known product is the "stylo" package for stylometric analysis of texts, written for the R statistical programming environment. The founding members are Maciej Eder (UP), Mike Kestemont (UA) and Jan Rybicki (UJ). Dr. Jan Rybicki is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Philology at the Jagiellonian University. He has also lectured at Rice University in Houston and the Pedagogical University of Krakow. He deals with translation studies, comparative literature and computer stylistics. In the latter field, he uses computer-statistical techniques derived from author attribution, which allow for quantitative and qualitative analysis of literary texts in the original and in translation. He is the author of numerous publications in scientific journals from the so-called Philadelphia list, a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Digital Humanities and the main organizer of the Digital Humanities 30 conference, which will be held in Krakow. He has also translated about XNUMX novels from English by authors such as Amis, Fitzgerald, Golding, Gordimer, Ishiguro, le Carré and Winterson.