dr hab. Dorota Kołodziejczyk
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
Department of English Literature and Comparative Studies,

Institute of English Studies, Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

HEAD
Centre for Postcolonial Studies

Institute of English Studies

Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

2002-2004 Assistant Professor at Polish Studies Program, SUNY University at Buffalo, funded by the Kościuszko Foundation.

2021-2024 Head of Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre. Academic Research Centre.

Research interest areas:

Postcolonial studies and literatures

Comparative literature

Disability studies

Neurodiversity

Translation studies

Research grant projects

2024-2026. NPRH/DN/SP/0040/2023/12, project title  “Cyfrowy atlas polskiego dziedzictwa teatralnego poza krajem” [Digital atlas of the Polish theatre heritage abroad]. Area of research: USA, Canada, Europe, Australia. Time-span 2024-2026. Principal Investigator (PI). Project leader dr. hab. Karolina Prykowska-Michalak, Prof. UŁ.

2023. Granty na Granty GGPJ6/HEUROPA/00/570400/2022 Program Ramowy Unii Europejskiej Horyzont Europa application ID 570400.

2021-2022. MEiN Doskonała Nauka – Wsparcie monografii naukowych, project title: “Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial.” Project realized in 2022. Project leader: dr hab. Dorota Kołodziejczyk.

2022-2024. Program MEiN Nauka dla Społeczeństwa, project title: „Teatralne dziedzictwo polskich migrantów. Interdyscyplinarne badania kultury polskiej za granicą” [Theatre heritage of Polish migrants. Interdisciplinary research on Polish culture abroad]. Grant ID: 538415 Area of research: Germany, Ireland, USA, UK. Time-span: 2022-2024. Principal Investigator (PI). Project leader dr hab. Karolina Prykowska-Michalak, Prof. UŁ.

2019. Granty na Granty – promocja jakości III, 4153/GGPJ3-19/H2020/0.

2018. Granty na Granty – promocja jakości II program Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, nr umowy 4009/GGPJII/H2020/2018/0; application ID 450548.

2018-2021. FNP TEAM 5/2017 Project title: “CORE: Core Concepts of Historical Thinking.” Project ID 0081. Status: Partner. Project coordinator: dr hab. Ulrich Timme Kragh, UAM.

NCBiR COHES – Comparative Heritage Studies, Centre for Humanities Studies, Jagiellonian University. Status: Researcher. Project coordinator dr hab. Tomasz Bilczewski, Prof. UJ.

2014-2018. FP7 Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Project title: “SPeCTReSS: Social Performance, Cultural Trauma and the Reestablishing of Solid Sovereignties.” Status: Researcher. Project coordinator of the Polish part of the consortium: dr. hab. Tomasz Bilczewski, Prof. UJ.

NPRH 11H12 0420 81. Project title: „National literature and the new humanities: representations, intepretations, translations.” Status: Researcher. Project coordinator: dr hab. Tomasz Bilczewski.

Selected publications after 2015:

Articles:

“Comparative literature and postcolonial studies – a new opening for comparativism?” Comparisons and contexts: essays on Central-Eastern European literature and culture, ed. by Bogusław Bakuła, Dobrochna Dabert, Emilia Kledzik, Wydawnictwo “Bonami”, Poznań, 2015, 79-99.

“The organic (re)turn: ecology of place in postcolonial and Central/Eastern European novel of post-displacement.” Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-communist Literatures and Cultures. Brill, Leiden, 2015, 261-280.

(with Mateusz Świetlicki) “Introduction: Between “anti-” and “post-” — on Recognition of Resistance in Postcolonial Studies.” Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia, 2016, 5, 7-16.

„Naród, wyobraźnia, produkcja: materializm kulturowy w ujęciu postkolonialnym.” Romantyzm środkowoeuropejski w kontekście postkolonialnym. Cz. 2. Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych Universitas, Kraków, 2016, 397-418.

„Podróż do siebie – graniczność języków w autobiograficznych refleksjach pisarzy postkolonialnych.” Autobiografie (po)graniczne, ed. by Inga Iwasiów, Tatiana Czerska, Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych Universitas, Kraków, 2016, 41-65.

„Pokoleniowe przewroty (wsteczne) a postkolonialne rozprawy z tożsamościowym esencjalizmem: rozpoznania wstępne.” Posttotalitarny syndrom pokoleniowy w literaturach słowiańskich Europy Środkowej, Wschodniej i Południowo-Wschodniej końca XX-początku XXI wieku w świetle studiów postkolonialnych, ed. by Agnieszka Matusiak, Wydawnictwo “Bonami”, Poznań, 2016, 35-54.

„W poszukiwaniu migracyjnego pisania. Kosmopolityka pewnego przypadku literackiego na Wyspach.” Teksty Drugie, 2016, 3, 116-141.

„Dziewczyna z szafy, chłopak na dachu – niepełnosprawność psychospołeczna w poetyce realizmu magicznego.” Porównania, 2017, 21, 31-53.

„Poza metaforą – autyzm jako impas hermeneutyczny w powieści postkolonialnej.” Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2017, 30, 141-167.

„Różnica kulturowa w przekładzie: translacyjność literatury postkolonialnej.” Przekładaniec, 2017, 33 (2016), 71-100.

(with Mateusz Świetlicki, Bogdan Ştefănescu) „Trauma kulturowa jako palimpsest: (post)komunizm w kontekście porównawczym nowoczesności, totalitaryzmów i (post)kolonializmów. Wstęp.” Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia, 2017, 6, 9-14.

“Where Is a Place for Central and Eastern Europe in Postcolonial Studies? Possible Trajectories.” Comparisons and Discourses. Essays on Comparative Literature andTtheory, ed. by Emilia Kledzik Wydawnictwo “Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne”, Poznań, 2017, 15-28.

(With Siegfried Huigen and Pieter Emmer) “Central Europe and Colonialism: Introduction” European Review, Cambridge University Press: 2018, 26, 407-409.

“Comparative Posts Going Political – the Postcolonial Backlash in Poland.”

Postcolonial Europe: comparative reflections after the Empires, ed. by Lars Jensen, Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Christian Groes, Zoran Lee Pecic.

Rowman & Littlefield, London, 2018, 177-192.

“Cultural Difference in Translation: Translationality of Postcolonial Literature.” Przekładaniec, 2018, 7-36.

“From Exile to Migrancy: Eastern and Central European Models of Cosmopolitical Writing.” Journal of Austrian-American History, 2018, 2, 91-115.

“In Search of Migrant Writing: The Cosmopolitics of Polish Fiction from the British Isles.” Teksty Drugie, 2018, 1(13), 88-112.

“Cultural Difference in Translation: Translationality of Postcolonial Literature.” Przekładaniec, Special Issue 2018, 7-36. 

„Od idealizmu przełomu po pragmatykę rozczarowania: w stronę hermeneutyki dyskursu transformacyjnego.” Po transformacji? Literackie idiomy zjawisk i procesów rzeczywistości III Rzeczypospolitej, ed. by Hanna Gosk, Łukasz Pawłowski. Dom Wydawniczy i Handlowy Elipsa, Warszawa, 2020, 11-33.

(with Mirja Lecke) “Through the Iron Curtain: The Geopolitics of Writing in Eastern Europe.” The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature, ed. by Andrew Hammond. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020, 509-529.

(with Siegfried Huigen) “New Nationalisms: Sources, Agendas, Languages. An Introduction.” European Review, Cambridge University Press: 2021, 29, 427-433.

(with Siegfried Huigen) “Multimodal Palimpsests: Ideology, (Non-)memory, Affect and the Senses in Cultural Landscapes Construction in Eastern and Central Europe.” European Review, Cambridge University Press: 2022, 30, 447-453.

„Do źródeł pisania. Autobiograficzne rewizje pisarzy postkolonialnych.” Nieskończona genesis literatury światowej: pisarze postkolonialni o władzy, języku i wyobraźni, ed. by Tomasz Bilczewski, Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Seria Hermeneia, Kraków.

“The Landscape of Hate – Olga Tokarczuk in Populist Discourse in Poland.”

European Review, Cambridge University Press: 2022, 30, 545-555.

(with Siegfried Huigen) “East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: A Critical Introduction.” East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Siegfried Huigen, Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023, 1-32.

“Polish Post-World-War-II Exiles in Britain: The London Wiadomości and Its Cultural Milieu.” Polish Culture in Britain: Literature and History, 1772 to the Present, ed. by Maggie Ann Bowers, Ben Dew. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023, 137-159.

Books and journal special issues:

Huigen Siegfried, Kołodziejczyk Dorota, eds. East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023, 277.  Open Access https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-17487-2

Bilczewski Tomasz, Kołodziejczyk Dorota, eds. Nieskończona genesis literatury światowej: pisarze postkolonialni o władzy, języku i wyobraźni. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Seria Hermeneia, Kraków, 2022, 320.

Huigen Siegfried, Kołodziejczyk Dorota, eds. European Review, Vol.30, No.4. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2022.

Huigen Siegfried, Kołodziejczyk Dorota, eds. European Review, Vol.29, No.4. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021.

Kołodziejczyk Dorota, Huigen Siegfried, Emmer Pieter, eds. European Review. Vol. 26 (3). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018.

Kołodziejczyk Dorota, Świetlicki Mateusz, Ştefănescu Bogdan, eds. Trauma kulturowa jako palimpsest: (post)komunizm w kontekście porównawczym nowoczesności, totalitaryzmów i (post)kolonializmów. Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia. vol. 6 Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław, 2017.

Kołodziejczyk Dorota, Matusiak Agnieszka, Świetlicki Mateusz, eds. The Tropics of Resistance. Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia. Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław, 2016.

Kołodziejczyk Dorota, Cristina Sandru, eds. Postcolonial perspectives on postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge, London, 2016.

Translation of postcolonial theory: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and academic editor of translations, among others: Leela Gandhi, Edward Said, Robert Young.

Keynote lectures, invited talks at conferences and seminars after 2020:

29.09.2025. “Modalities of Self in the Neurodiversity Environment.” Conference Bio/Humanities. Representations of Life. Jagellonian University.

09.09.2025. Keynote lecture “The Game Exotic – How to Decolonize Gaming and Not Lose the Fun? A Transmedia Reflection.” Conference Central and Eastern European Game Studies CEEGS 2025: Landscapes, Cities, Localities. University of Wrocław.

22-23.05.2025. “Transborder Dialogues in Europe Called Central. Revisions and Forward Nostalgias.” Conference Mitteleuropa Revisited: The Notion of Central Europe. University of Toronto.

10-12.04.2025. Keynote lecture: “Joys and Fears: Postcolonial Affect in Postcommunist environments.” Conference Postcolonial Situation in the Arts After the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Experience, Impact, Reassessment. Latvian Academy of Music in Riga.

11.12.2024. “Domesticating Space, Yearning for Wilderness. Eco- and Geo-Poetics in Contemporary Polish Poetry.” Regensburg University.

04-05.10.2024. “Coloniality of Power and the Environmental Collapse – Comparative Readings Across Postcommunist and Postcolonial Space.” Conference Postcolonial Theories and Literatures in the 21^st c. Mainz University.

25-26.06.2024. Keynote lecture: “The Relentless Law of Recurrence: Right Populism Against Postcommunist Anarchic Heterotopias.” International conference Cultural Heterologies and Democracy, Tallinn University.

13.14.09.2023. “From Miedzianka to Kupferberg – Affective Landscapes in Lower Silesia mountains.” The jubilee conference of the 10-Jahre Aleksander-Bruckner-Zentrum fur Polenstudien Halle.

4-5.09.2023. “Whose colonies, Whose Fantasies? The Polish Pre-WWII Colonial Project in the Light of Postcolonial Discourse.” Conference Colonial Entanglements in Eastern and Central Europe Before 1939. Instytut Kultury Polskiej, Warsaw University.

26-28.06.2023. “Postcolonial Smokescreens in the Populist Right Discourse in Poland: The Mechanisms of Making and Targeting the Other.” Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung/bpb, Conference Decolonization in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Tutzing.

09.03.2023. “Postcolonial Studies in East Central Europe. An Ex-Centric Contribution.” Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford University.

16.12.2021. “Affective Lower Silesian Landscapes in Olga Tokarczuk’s Fiction.” Global Sentimentality Project coordinated by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Membership in professional associations and networks:

Academia Europaea (nomination membership)

International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)

REELC/ENCLS (European Network for Comparative Literary Studies)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA),

Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS)

Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE)

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)

Reviewer of grant applications for: the National Science Centre (NCN), European Research Council (ERC), Le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS