Konrad Sierzputowski

Assistant Professor
Institute of Polish Culture

Konrad Sierzputowski is a cultural anthropologist, music scholar, and researcher of contemporary LGBTQ+ cultures and assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Culture, UW. His academic interests include contemporary popular music, the history of audiovisual media, transformations of digital culture, and vernacular queer strategies and practices — both online and offline. He is the author of Słuchając hologramu. Cielesność wirtualnych zespołów animowanych (IKP 2018) and Ciała do słuchania. Szkice z muzyki popularnej (Słowo/obraz Terytoria 2026), as well as articles in academic journals (such as History of Popular Music, Kultura Współczesna, and Przegląd Kulturoznawczy). He has also contributed chapters to anthologies, including The Artistry and Legacy of Queen (edited by Ewa Mazierska and Tony Rigg, Bloomsbury 2024) and Made in Poland: Studies in Popular Music (edited by Patryk Gałuszka, Routledge 2020). He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Music at Columbia University in New York (2020) and a recipient of the START scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science (2021). He was also awarded the Krakowska Nagroda Miasta Literatury UNESCO (2023) for his writing. He is currently working on two research projects: “Make Poland Gay Again! Aesthetic, Epistemic, and Social Functions of Polish Queer Humor after 1989” and “Algorithmic, Artistic, and Activist Adaptation Strategies of the Arab LGBTQ+ Diaspora in Berlin, Paris, and London”.