Jędrzej Burszta

Assistant Professor
Institute of the Americas and Europe

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 is currently the PI in the project “Psychedelic Culture in Poland: Practices and Discourses” (NCN Sonata). Between 2017 and 2019, he conducted ethnographic research as part of the international research project “CRUSEV: Cruising the Seventies”. Recently, he co-edited the volume Odmieńczość: Obywatelstwo seksualne i archiwum (WUW 2024) with Tomasz Basiuk and Agnieszka Kościańska. He is currently the principal investigator in the project “Psychedelic Culture in Poland: Practices and Discourses” (NCN Sonata, 2024–2026).