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Karolina Krasuska
TitleUniversity professor
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Warsaw
Main interestsGender/queer studies, comparative literary studies, Jewish studies
Websitekarolinakrasuska.org

Karolina Krasuska is an associate professor (profesora uczelni) at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw.[1][2] In 2016, she founded the Gender/Sexuality Research Group.[3] In 2025, she co-founded and coordinates the Gender and Sexuality MA program (Płeć i seksualność), the first such MA studies program in Polish.[4] She is a scholar of gender/queer studies and comparative literary studies, including Jewish American literature.

She was awarded two major grants by the National Science Centre (Poland) in 2019 and 2023, which among other outputs resulted in the 2024 publication Soviet Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction (Rutgers University Press).[5][6][7][8].[9][10] In 2024, she was awarded an international cooperation grant by the IDUB Excellence Initiative (University of Warsaw) to further develop a research collaboration with University of Leeds.[11]

She serves on the MLA Forum Executive Committee "LLC Jewish American Literature" and the Association for Jewish Studies Program Committee.[12][13] Krasuska previously served as vice director for research at the Institute of the Americas and Europe. In 2017, she was awarded the University of Warsaw Teaching Award in humanities.[14] In 2025, she was appointed to serve on the University of Warsaw's Unequal Treatment and Discrimination Commission and the Literature Discipline Council.[15][16]

Krasuska earned her PhD in Cultural Studies in 2010 from European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder, Germany), which she completed as a member of the graduate research group (Graduiertenkolleg) Gender as a Category of Knowledge, Humboldt University of Berlin.[17]

In 2008, Krasuska translated Judith Butler's Gender Trouble into Polish.[18]

Publications

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Monographs

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Soviet Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction (Rutgers University Press, 2024)[19]

Poradzieckie: Najnowsza migracyjna literatura żydowska w Stanach Zjednoczonych (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2021)[20]

Płeć i naród: Trans/lokacje. Maria Komornicka/Piotr Odmieniec Włast, Else Lasker-Schüler, Mina Loy (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2012)[21]

Edited works

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Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges (ed. with Andrea Petö and Louise Hecht) (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2015)[22]

Translation

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Judith Butler, Uwikłani w płeć (Gender Trouble Polish translation by Karolina Krasuska) (2008, 2024)[23]

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Homepage of Karolina Krasuska

References

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  1. ^ Mataba. "Karolina Krasuska | American Studies Center, University of Warsaw". www.asc.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  2. ^ "Uchwały -". monitor.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  3. ^ "O nas - Pracownia Gender Sexuality" (in Polish). 2021-12-16. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  4. ^ "About – Płeć i Seksualność". Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  5. ^ "Soviet-Born". Rutgers University Press. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  6. ^ "2024 AJS Honors Its Authors". associationforjewishstudies.org. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  7. ^ "Trading on history". TLS. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  8. ^ "Reconfiguring the Categories". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2024-07-15. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  9. ^ "Wyszukiwarka projektów finansowanych przez NCN". projekty.ncn.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  10. ^ "Wyszukiwarka projektów finansowanych przez NCN". projekty.ncn.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  11. ^ Traczyk, CKC UW-Konrad. "II.2.1. Tandems for Excellence: Visiting Researchers Programme – 3rd edition". idub.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  12. ^ "Forum Executive Committees for the 2025 Convention Year (8 Jan..." Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  13. ^ "Committees". www.associationforjewishstudies.org. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  14. ^ "Laureaci nagród dydaktycznych rektora". Uniwersytet Warszawski (in Polish). 2017-11-17. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  15. ^ Traczyk, CKC UW-Konrad; agredzinska (2025-02-25). "Appointment of the Unequal Treatment and Discrimination Commission for the years 2024–2028". Strona równościowa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  16. ^ "Uchwały - Zarządzenia Rektora". monitor.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  17. ^ "Dr. Karolina Krasuska". ZtG HU Berlin (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  18. ^ "Uwikłani w płeć | Judith Butler". Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej (in Polish). Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  19. ^ "Soviet-Born". Rutgers University Press. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  20. ^ "Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk - Nowości". wydawnictwo.ibl.waw.pl. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  21. ^ "Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk - Nowości". wydawnictwo.ibl.waw.pl. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  22. ^ "Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk - Nowości". wydawnictwo.ibl.waw.pl. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
  23. ^ "Uwikłani w płeć | Judith Butler". Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej (in Polish). Retrieved 2025-05-03.