Aleksandra Kamińska

Assistant Professor
Institute of the Americas and Europe

Aleksandra Kamińska holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Warsaw and is assistant professor at the American Studies Center UW and a member of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group. Her interests focus on life narratives in popular culture and literature, queer temporalities, and girl as an identity category. She earned her MA at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Kamińska received the Fulbright Award to advance her research at Columbia University (2018-2019) and is a National Science Center grantee (Etiuda, Preludium). Outside of academia, she is a co-founder of the initiative Girls and Queers to the Front, where she aims to uplift gender and sexual minorities while reimagining dominant modes of production by publishing zines and books, curating and organizing performances, concerts, exhibitions, and workshops.