Katarzyna Taczyńska, PhD. Researcher, educator and translator. She is a graduate of Slavonic philology (2006), Polish philology (2008), Balkan philology (2010), postgraduate studies in teaching Polish as a foreign language (2008), postgraduate studies in gender studies (2013) and postgraduate studies in arts and culture (2017), and, since 2019, also a student of Jewish studies. She is the author of a monograph A Joke That Stretched for Two and a Half Years. The Portrait of Goli otok in Serbian Literary and Historical Discourse at the End of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Century [in Polish], and many scholarly articles. She was an editor of the series “Get to know the Balkans”, she is a member of the editorial staff in Slavia Meridionalis. From 2019 she is a vice-chair of the Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History affiliated with AIESEE (Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Europeen). She is a recipient of a number of awards and scholarships (i.e. Paris Yiddish Center scholarship [2022]; Individual 2nd Degree Scientific Award of Adam Mickiewicz University Rector [2017]; distinction in Inka Brodzka-Wald Competition [3nd Edition] for the best doctoral thesis in humanities related to the contemporary culture [2014]; scholarship AMU: A Unique Graduate = Possibilities. Improving the didactic potential of Adam Mickiewicz University through innovative education in English, interdisciplinary approach, e-learning, and investments in the staff - study visit at Beijing International Studies University [2015]; Adam Mickiewicz University grants for young researchers and Ph.D. students [2016, 2017]; Nicolaus Copernicus University grants for young researchers and Ph.D. students [2011, 2012]; Bilateral Mobility Grant of Ministry of the Republic of Slovenia for Higher Education, Science and Technology [2011]). Her research interests include: Jewish culture and literature in Eastern and Southern Europe (especially in former Yugoslavia), Holocaust studies, and historiography and literary work of Jewish women in Serbia and Croatia. She cooperates with the Bente Kahan Foundation in Wrocław on projects related to Jewish culture.
Projects:
2022-present, a team member in the project The Dissonant Heritage: Witnesses, Bystanders and Observers in the Croatian Cultural Memory of WWII (POB Heritage, Jagiellonian University).
2021-2022, co-author (with Kamila Pałubicka) of the educational project Holocaust Emotion Cards (Western Galilee College, EWE Stiftung Oldenburg and Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg).
2021-2022, a team member in the project Memory Competitiveness in a Multicultural Society. The Case of Serbia (POB Heritage at the Jagiellonian University).
2015-2018, an individual research project The Memory of/about Violence. The Cultural History of Women in the Serbian and Croatian Historical and Literary Discourse in the Twentieth Century, funded by the National Science Center (Fuga 4, No. 2015/16/S/HS2/00092).
2012-2018, a team member in the project POSTCOMER: the Laboratory for the Study of Collective Memory in Post-communist Europe, funded by the National Science Center (Sonata 2, No. 2011/03/D/HS2/06170).