Dorota Sosnowska

Assistant Professor
Institute of Polish Culture

Dorota Sosnowska is assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Culture (Section of Theater and Performance) at the University of Warsaw. The author of the monograph on three actresses of the communist period in Poland entitled Królowe PRL. Sceniczne wizerunki Ireny Eichlerówny, Niny Andrycz i Elżbiety Barszczewskiej jako modele kobiecości (2014). She has participated in research projects “Sources and Mediations” (NPRH), “Performances of Memory” (NCN) and “The Mask in the Culture of Modern Europe” (NCN). She has published articles in Polish and international academic journals such as Performance Research and Czech Theatralia. She is a co-editor of Robotnik. Performanse pamięci (Theater Institute/KiP, 2017). She is currently working on the research project “Odmieńcy. Performances of Otherness in the Polish Transition Culture”  (NCN) and is a co-investigator in the project “Epidemics and Communities in Critical Theories, Artistic Practices and Speculative Fiction of Recent Decades” (NCN). She is a member of the Historiography working group within the International Federation for Theater Research and an editor of View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture Journal.