Faculty & Staff

ASC Faculty

Paweł Frelik’s teaching and research interests include science fiction, audiovisual media (film, television, video games, music video), and unpopular culture. He has published widely in these fields, serves on the boards of Science Fiction Studies (USA), Extrapolation (USA/UK), and Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (UK), and is the co- editor of the New Dimensions in Science Fiction book series at the University of Wales Press. In 2013-2014, he was President of the Science Fiction Research Association (USA), the first in the organization’s history from outside North America. He now serves as President of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (USA). In 2017, he was the first non-Anglophone recipient of the Thomas D. Clareson Award. [full profile]

Anna Kurowicka received a PhD in cultural studies at the University of Warsaw for a dissertation entitled “Politics of Asexuality. A Critical Analysis of Discourses on Asexualities.” In 2015, she was awarded the Kosciuszko Foundation grant to conduct research at Emory University. She has published on asexuality in Sexualities, Teksty Drugie, and Feminist Formations. Her current research is focused on cultural representations of asexuality, connections between asexuality and queer theory, and asexuality and genderlessness in SF. She is a co-chair of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group and the Speculative Texts and Media Research Group at the ASC. [full profile]

Political scientist and americanist. Holds double MA in political science and American studies received from University of Warsaw and Ph. D. in political science obtained at Polish Academy of Science. Former Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Collegium Civitas; currently assistant professor at American Studies Center (University of Warsaw). His research interests include: history of political thought and political philosophy, American political tradition, theory of democracy, and American political system. Alumnus of the Tertio Millennio Institute and Study of the U. S. Institute for American Political Thought. Scholar visits at Stanford University, University of Massachusetts and Charles University in Prague. Published at Zoon Politikon, Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies, Political Studies Review, Studia Territorialia. [full profile]

Professor of history at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw, Batog authored two research books of American radical Left: Wywrotowcy? Komunistyczna Partia USA we wczesnym okresie zimnej wojny, 1945 – 1954 (Subversives? Communist Party USA in the early Cold War, 1945 – 1954), and Protesty studentów uniwersytetów Ivy League przeciw wojnie wietnamskiej, 1965 – 1970 (Protests of Ivy League university students against the war i Vietnam, 1965 – 1970). His third book, on Billy Graham’s visit to Poland in 1978 (Mosty wzajemnego zrozumienia. Wizyta Billy’ego Grahama w Polsce w październiku 1978 roku; Bridges of Mutual Understanding. Billy Graham’s Visit to Poland in October 1978) is forthcoming from the University of Warsaw Press. He received research grants to Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and the United States to Boston College, New York University, the Library of Congress and National Archives. His research interests include American social history and American radical left. He is now working on articles on eugenic aspects of immigration to the United States. [full profile]

Cultural studies scholar, ethnographer, Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center. Jędrzej Burszta received his M.A. degrees in cultural studies (Institute of Polish Culture, UW) and American studies (American Studies Center, UW). In 2019 he received his doctoral degree in cultural studies from the SWPS University in Warsaw for a dissertation examining the queer history of American science fiction literature. His research interests include American popular and alternative culture, speculative fiction, retrofuturism, queer studies, ethnography of memory. He has worked in research projects investigating queerness in Polish history and society. At the American Studies Center, he offers courses about popular culture, science fiction and fantasy, queer theory, cultural studies and anthropology. [full profile]

Dr. Calleros is a lecturer and researcher at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw. His research is centred on the analysis of political processes, social conflicts and ethnicity. On Political Institutions, his focus is on the role of the legislature within constitutional democracy. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Bucharest´s Research Institute and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Warsaw´s Institute of International Relations. He has provided advice on public policy (conflict resolution, human rights, transparency and elections) in Mexico. Trained as a Political Scientist, Dr. Calleros obtained a B.A. from UNAM´s School of Political and Social Sciences. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Leeds (U.K.) and received his M.A. in Legislative Studies from the University of Hull (U.K.). Dr. Calleros has conducted fieldwork in the United States, Spain, Poland, Rumania, Mexico and the United Kingdom. [full profile]

William Glass earned degrees in history from Centre College (BA) and Emory University (MA, PhD) and studied church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He teaches courses on American history, religion, race, and cinema. His research interests center on American Protestantism, the American South, and the use films as cultural documents. His research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has been a Fulbright Fellow in Poland. He has published essays in The Journal of Church and State, Film & History, Jewish Social Studies, and contributed entries for American National Biography and the Encyclopedia of Southern Religion. [full profile]

Przemysław Górecki is a Polish studies and English studies scholar, Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center. He received Ph.D. in Literary studies (Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) and M.A. in English studies (Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań). He is also a postgraduate in Gender studies (The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences). He taught courses on masculinities, queer and translation at the Adam Mickiewicz University, participated in forty Polish and international conferences, published numerous articles, and participated in scholarly projects, teams, and associations (e.g. Polish Studies Newsletter of The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences). [full profile]

Agnieszka Graff, a graduate of Amherst College and Oxford University, holds a PhD in literature (2000) and a postdoctoral degree (habilitacja) in cultural studies (2014), both granted by University of Warsaw. Her research interests include gender studies, feminist history, nationalism and public discourse on gender. Her articles have appeared in Signs, East European Politics and Societies, Public Culture, Feminist Studies, European Journal of Women’s Studies and many collected volumes. She is the author of four books of feminist essays in Polish: Świat bez kobiet (2001, 2011, 2021); Rykoszetem (2008), Magma (2010), Matka feministka (2014). Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, a monograph co-authored with Elżbieta Korolczuk, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2021. [full profile]

Ludmiła Janion is a cultural studies scholar, an Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center. Her research and teaching interests include media, gender, and sexuality studies. Ludmiła Janion received her M.A. degrees in philosophy (Institute of Philosophy, UW) and American studies (American Studies Center, UW) and her Ph.D. in cultural studies (“Artes Liberales”, UW). Her research on the westernization of discourses of gender nonconformity during the transition era in Poland has been published in Central Europe, Sexualities, and Text and Performance Quarterly, while the first results of her current project on the neoliberalisation of heterosexuality can be found in Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of the QueerIt research group, where she investigates the reception of queer theory in Polish feminist thought.  [full profile]

Joanna Mąkowska holds a PhD in American Literature and is an Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century literature in the United States and Canada, poetry and poetics, documentary and protest writing, American ecocriticism, posthumanist and feminist theories. She has published in Arizona Quarterly, Modernism/modernity, Women’s Studies, and James Baldwin Review, among other venues. Her work also appeared in many edited collections, most recently in The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo (2017-2018) and Kosciuszko Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Duquesne University (2021-2022). She is also a literary critic and translator, publishing in Literatura na Świecie and Dwutygodnik. [full profile]

Full professor of humanities, Obirek, a culture anthropologist. He was a visiting professor in Holy Cross College in Worcester MA, and a fellow in St. Louis University. His books include  The Jesuits in the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, 1564-1668 (1996); Winged Mind. Walter Ong’s Anthropology of Word (2010);  with Zygmunt Bauman, On God and Man. Conversations (2013); with Arno Tausch, Global Catholicism, Tolerance and Open Society. An Empirical Study of the Value Systems of Roman Catholics (2020). At present, he is working on a book dealing with global understanding of postsecularism. He is interested in the place of religion in modern cultures, interreligious dialogue, and strategies for overcoming conflicts between different civilizations and cultures. [full profile]

Assistant Professor at the ASC, graduated from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) in 2018. Her research interests include disability studies, American and Polish literature, gender studies, mad studies, environmental studies, and discard studies. She publishes on the cultural history of disability and representations of disability in Polish literature. She co-edited, with Marta Usiekniewicz and Magdalena Szarota, a special issue of Studia de Cultura 10(1)/2018 devoted to disability studies in Poland. She’s the Polish translator of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, which came out in 2020 with Fundacja Teatr 21. She’s an ally of people with disabilities and she combines academic work with activism. [full profile]

I am a political scientist specializing in political theory and comparative politics. I teach courses in American Political Thought as well as American politics past and present. In my current research I explore topics of democracy, popular sovereignty, federalism, and constitution of political space. I am finishing my dissertation at the New School for Social Research in which I investigate the conceptual and normative underpinnings of federalism as an alternative to the modern State. As a side project I am investigating colonial and imperial epistemologies and imaginaries embedded in American International Relations theories. Before joining the American Studies Center I was a journalist writing for various outlets (including Krytyka Polityczna and Tygodnik Powszechny) and a communications specialist. [full profile]

Visiting Professors

Every semester we host visiting professors from the US and European countries, under the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Program and bilateral exchange agreements with other universities.

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside, where she founded the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. She has published widely on science fiction, including, most recently, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021), Science Fiction: The Essential Knowledge (2021), and Programming the Future: Speculative Television and the End of Democracy (2022, co-authored with Jonathan Alexander). She was a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and is the managing editor for the journal Science Fiction Studies and the book series Science in Popular Culture.

Joshua Reeves is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Oregon State University. He’s the author or coauthor of three books: Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital (Minnesota, 2023), Killer Apps: War, Media, Machine (Duke, 2020), and Citizen Spies: The Long Rise of America’s Surveillance Society (NYU, 2017). Josh is also an associate editor at Surveillance & Society, and his most recent work has appeared in places like Theory, Culture, & Society and Theory & Event.

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