Iwona Kurz

Associate Professor
Institute of Polish Culture

Iwona Kurz – associate professor at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. Her field of interest includes the history of modern Polish culture, the theory and history of visual culture, film studies, memory studies and body and gender. Author of the book Twarze w tłumie (Faces in the Crowd, 2005, Nomination for the Nike Award, Michałek Award for the best book in film studies) about Polish culture of the 1950s and 1960s, editor of the anthology Film i historia (Film and history, 2008), co-author of, among others, the book Obyczaje polskie. Wiek XX w krótkich hasłach (Everyday in Poland. The 20th Century in Short Entries, 2008) and two volumes of Kultura wizualna w Polsce (Visual Culture in Poland, 2017), co-editor of the academic textbooks Antropologia ciała (Anthropology of body, 2008) and Antropologia Kultury Wizualnej (Visual Culture Anthropology, 2012). She teaches, among others, the anthropology of visual culture, the history of 19th century culture, the history of 20th century culture, body and memory in visual culture, and the representation of gender in visual arts, film, and literature. More: https://uw.academia.edu/IwonaKurz