She is an Associate Professor of Comparative Slavic studies. Her research interests include Polish and Soviet/Russian cinemas, gendered notions of identity, nationalism, colonial and post-colonial studies, Orientalist discourses, as well as Polish and Russian travel to the East.
She received her MA in English Philology from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, where She worked on American postmodern literature. He continued her studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her PhD training was in comparative Slavic literature at Yale. She looked at how Poles and Russians, who were themselves perceived as Easterners by the rest of Europe, traveled to the Romantic Orient. Following the completion of Between East and West: Polish and Russian Nineteenth-Century Travel to the Orient (U of Rochester Press, 2004), my interests shifted towards Polish and Russian cinemas, where she has examined issues relating to the constructions of gender, national identity, ways of speaking about the past, as well as the interactions and exchanges between the two national cinemas.
Her current projects branch out in two directions. She is completing a manuscript on Polish cinema of the 1980s, while, at the same time, continuing her previous preoccupation with Orientalism, this time within the realm of Soviet-era and post-Soviet cinema.
