Karolina Krasuska

Associate Professor
Institute of the Americas and Europe

Karolina Krasuska is associate professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw and the founder of the research group Gender/Sexuality at the ASC. Co-author of the concept of the MA program Gender and Sexuality and its co-coordinator. Her research areas include twenty- and twenty-first-century transnational literature, centrally Jewish American literature, and gender/queer studies. She graduated with a PhD from European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder (2011), was Visiting Fellow at SUNY Buffalo (2007, 2008), and a member of the research group Gender as a Category of Knowledge, Humboldt University, Berlin (2005-2008). Her research has been funded by Heinrich Bőll Stiftung, Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scholars), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, National Science Centre, and the Koret Foundation. She is the author of a 2012 Polish-language monograph examining modernist texts from a transnational, gender-oriented perspective and a co-editor of Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges (2015). Her two recent books Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction (2024) and Poradzieckie (2021) expand her transnational literature interests into the twenty-first century. Karolina Krasuska also translates gender/queer theory into Polish, including Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (2008). PI in the NCN grant “Affective poetics” (2023-2027) and investigator in the NCN grant “QueerIt” (2023-2026). In 2021-2024 she served as a co-chair of the Gender and Sexuality Division at the Association for Jewish Studies and currently sits on its Program Committee. She is a member of the UW Rector’s Unequal Treatment and Discrimination Committee (2024-2028).