CURRICULUM VITAE

Address:
Radoslaw Kaleta
Faculty of Applied Linguistics
Dobra 55,
00-312 Warsaw
Poland

Contact:
telephone number: +48 505 464 094

e-mail: rkaleta[at]uw.edu.pl

2025: Postgraduate Certificate in Contemporary International Migration, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw

2019: PhD with habilitation of Arts in Linguistics, Faculty of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw

2012: PhD of Arts in Linguistics, Faculty of Applied Linguistics, Department of Belarusian Studies, University of Warsaw

2009: MA in Polish Philology (with authorization to teach Polish language and culture to foreigners, editing qualifications), Faculty of Polish Philology, University of Warsaw

2007: MA in Philology (with authorization to teach Belarusian language and culture to foreigners), Faculty of Applied Linguistics, Department of Belarusian Studies, University of Warsaw

Graduated summa cum laude

2024—present: Vice-dean of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics
Responsibilities include acting as deputy dean, negotiating contracts, coordinating projects, acquiring strategic partners, and other related duties.2021—present: Associate Professor of Belarusian Studies, University of Warsaw

•    Reviewer for Harrassowitz Verlag (Wiesbaden) publishing house and of Slavonic academic journals: Studia Rossica Gedanensia, Acta Polono-Ruthenica, Slavia Orientalis, Studia Białorutenistyczne, Białorutenistyka Białostocka, Cyril-Methodian Notebooks, Journal of Belarusian Studies, Slavic Studies.

•    Teaching eight undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD courses per year, mainly focused on research methods in Belarusian Studies, as well as comparative Linguistics, Socio-Linguistcs and Teaching Theory and Practice;

•    Supervision of PhD, MA and BA theses;

•    Head of the Department of Belarusian Studies (2019-2024);

•    Member of 3 faculty committees: Selection Committee, Budget and Finance Committee, Academic Staff Employment Committee, Member of the Board of Elections of the University of Warsaw.

2019–2024: Head of the Department of Belarusian Studies, University of Warsaw 

Receiving funding from Polish and Belarusian organizations (Polish language courses, lectures to Belarusian specialists and journal publications), responsible for the recruitment policy, advertising and PR campaigns, member of the committee that interviewed candidates for the scholarship, organizing university conferences, co-organiser of Polish language and Polish culture courses under the patronage of the Rector of the University, looking for opportunities for staff and student exchanges with other academic centres, e.g. with Gomel State University, the Belarusian State University of Economics (2019–2020) and the Institute for the East European Studies of Charles University in Prague (2016), inviting lecturers from other EU centres to enrich the teaching offer; coordinating of a series of lectures delivered by Belarusian experts, Mobility Coordinator at the Department of Belarusian Studies at the University of Warsaw (European ERASMUS programme) (2019–2021).

2012–2021: Lecturer and assistant professor at the Department of Belarusian Studies, University of Warsaw

•    Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses;

•    Conducted independent academic and teaching work;

•    Member of the selection committee for Slavic studies majors.

2014–2016: Deputy Head of the Department of Belarusian Studies, University of Warsaw

Provided for the academic and teaching development of the staff, searched for partners for international cooperation, administrative work, conducted my own academic and teaching work, Member of the Council of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics.

2008–2012: Lecturer, Private language schools, Teaching Polish as a foreign language, courses for foreigners of different nationalities (mainly from Slavonic countries).

2005: Journalist, Belarusian Section of Polish Radio for Abroad

Translating and writing material for the website, taking interviews, recording in the radio studio.

2025—present: Editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Albaruthenica

2022—2024: Deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Albaruthenica

2024—present: Expert for the Polish Ministry of Education regarding general education textbooks for the Belarusian language

2020—present: Modern Belarusian Studies, member of the Editorial Board (the Brill publishing house)

2020: Acta Albaruthenica academic advisory board chair

2017—present: Founder and editor of the academic journal Belarusian Language as a Foreign Language (since 2024: International Journal of Belarusian Glottodidactics)

2015—present: Founder & head of the Laboratory of Belarusian Glottodidactics (University of Warsaw, Department of Belarusian Studies)

2012–2015: Scientific secretary of the journal Acta Albaruthenica

2023: “Excellence Initiative – Research University” University of Warsaw: “The development of the academic journal Acta Albaruthenica” (grant manager).

2017–2020: Cultural Centre of Belarus in Poland “Belarusians in the World” grant: “The development of the academic journal Belarusian Language as a Foreign Language“ and “Popular grammar of the Belarusian language”.

2014—present: The Ministry of Science of Poland: “Expansion of the bibliographic database of world Slavonic linguistics iSybislaw”, co-participant, responsible for Belarusian part of the grant.

2013–2016: The Ministry of Science of Poland: participation in the grant “Cultural and linguistic heritage of Podlasie” (Podlasie = A region in Poland where a large Belarusian minority resides).

Participation in world and international scientific conferences and congresses (Belarus, Canada, China, Lithuania, Poland, USA).

List of recognized conferences:

Coordinator and chair of the panel “Preserving Memory. Exploring Belarus Through Language and Culture” and roundtable “Past, Current State, and Future of Belarusian Studies”, Washington, DC, November 2025.

Presented the paper “The Belarusian Language in an English-Speaking Environment” at the 12th International Congress of Belarusian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, September 2025.

Presented the paper “Belarusian Language Protection and Development Strategies” at the 31st Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 2025 (coordinator of the first panel on Belarus in the history of this conference: “The Belarusian Language: Challenges, Perspectives, and Future Directions”).

Presented the paper “The Belarusian Language – breaking free from social and educational stereotypes”, Boston, MA, November 2024.

Participated in the Jubilee Forum of Rectors and negotiations at the Department of European Languages and Cultures Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin, China, September 2024.

“Making room for Belarusian voices — proposals and experience of 68 years of the Department of Belarusian Studies at the University of Warsaw”, 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, March 2024.

“Belarusica in the collections of the Harvard Library and the Boston Public Library”, International Conference Belarusian Language, Literature and Culture in Poland and the World, Warsaw, March 2024.

“Belarusian language, literature and culture in the latest textbooks for children of Belarusians of Podlasie (Poland), published by the association “AB-BA””, International Scientific Conference The Belarusian Nation through the Eyes of Diaspora and Fellow Compatriots, Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences, To the 55th anniversary of Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences, Canada and the 10th anniversary of the magazine “CULTURE. NATION”, Ottawa, November 2022.

“Selected linguistic errors of Poles learning Belarusian as a foreign language”, International Congress of Belarusian Researchers, Kaunas (Lithuania), October 2022.

“Belarusian language – current state and prospects”, Belarusian identity: experiences of the past and challenges of the present. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Belarus’ independence, Warsaw, April 2021.

“A scholar of Belarus and Poland – Nina Barshchevskaya, professor at the University of Warsaw”, International Scientific and Practical Conference Scholars of Belarus and Poland, The Union of Women of the Belarusian State University and the Department of Intercultural Studies of Central and Eastern Europe of University of Warsaw, Minsk, March 2020.

“On the terms Belarusian as a foreign language and Belarusian glottodidactics”, International Scientific Congress Belarusian Language – the main value of the nation and the state (on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Jakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics), National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, October 2019.

“On the peculiarities of teaching the Belarusian language to Poles”, International Scientific Glottodidactic Conference Slavonic Languages in Neophilology and Other Fields of Study, Institute of Slavonic Philology and Center for Russian Language and Culture of Maria Curie-Sklodovska University in Lublin, Lublin, November 2017.

“Dictionary of Belarusian archaisms in teaching Belarusian to Poles”, International Scientific Conference Belarusian-Polish cultural and linguistic ties: from history to the present, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Polish Academy of Sciences, Minsk, October 2016.

“Belarusian language as a foreign language in Poland and the world”, International Scientific Conference Language – Literature – Culture, Belarus State University, Minsk, September 2016.

“On variants of romanization of the Belarusian alphabet”, International Scientific Conference Belarusian-Polish linguistic, literary and historical-cultural ties, International Association of Belarusians, Polish Institute in Minsk, Belarusian State University, Minsk, June 2016. “Belarusian language as a foreign language from a Polish perspective”, 5th International Congress of Belarusian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, May 2015.

2023, 2020, and 2016: Rector’s Award of the University of Warsaw in recognition of achievements contributing to the development and prestige of the University of Warsaw.

2019: Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Medal for academic achievements in the field of foreign Belarusian studies (highest Belarusian academic award for foreigners).

2023: Romania, European Academy of Innovation

2016: Czech Republic, Charles University in Prague, Institute of Eastern European Studies

2020: Belarus, Grodno State University

Two lectures on Belarusian Studies in Poland

2017: Belarus, Minsk State Linguistic University

Two lectures on Polish-Belarusian language contacts

2017: Russia, Saint Petersburg State University

A lecture on language errors in the Polish language

Small and endangered languages, language in society, language policy, propaganda and myths about language and culture, language influences, teaching and learning Polish / Belarusian / Russian language (and culture) as a foreign language, online language learning platforms and AI, interlanguage, bilingualism, multilingualism, confrontational linguistics, grammar of Slavonic languages, linguistic correctness and changes to the language standards, translation studies, lexicology, lexicography, migration studies.