- Phone:
- (812) 855-7351
- Email:
- jnizynsk@iu.edu
- Department:
- Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Global and International Studies Building, 4029
Global and International Studies Building, 4029
Joanna Niżyńska has been director of Polish Studies Center since January 2015. As Associate Professor of Polish Literature and Culture in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, she approaches her field from a comparative perspective and pursues research that crosses disciplinary and national borders. Her longstanding interests in intersection between trauma, memory, and the everyday are reflected in a monograph, The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Białoszewski, and the Quotidian, the Traumatic, and the Queer (Northwestern UP, 2013; Polish translation Królestwo małoznaczącości: Miron Białoszewski a trauma, codzienność i queer, Universitas 2018), and in German-Polish Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Liveable Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She is a coeditor of Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (Toronto UP, 2018), an 800-page interdisciplinary volume with sixty contributions from a team of international scholars written with an English-speaking audience in mind. Her new book project investigates contemporary Poland’s cultural memory from the perspective of long lasting imprints of communist politics of memory, particularly as pertaining to Polish-Jewish past.