zuzanna.kolodziejska-smagala[at]uwr.edu.pl
– graduate of the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw (2009) and the Institute of Polish Literature at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw (2007). In 2013, at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, she defended her doctoral thesis with distinction, which was a monograph of the weekly “Israelita.” The thesis was published in 2014 by the Jagiellonian University Publications. In 2015-2018, Kołodziejska-Smagała was the head of a research project on Polish-Jewish Literature 1861-1918 carried out at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University funded by a Sonata grant (NCN). In 2011-2014, she was a member of a research team working on “Cultural and Literary Polish-Jewish Contacts. History and the Present Day” as part of a professorial subsidy under Prof. dr hab. Eugenia Prokop-Janiec (Masters Programme of the Foundation for Polish Science). In the years 2020-2023 at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw she managed a project entitled “Discourses on the Body and Sexuality in Polish-Jewish Women’s Writing 1890-1918” within the framework of an Opus grant (NCN) and in cooperation with the UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Prof. François Guesnet)
At the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław and in cooperation with Professor Joanna Degler, Kołodziejska-Smagała is working on a project focused on “Discourses on the Body in Jewish Culture on Polish Lands in the Years 1880-1939” and funded by an Opus grant (NCN).
Kołodziejska-Smagała mainly deals with 19th-century Polish-Jewish literature and press, and is interested in the borderlands of cultures. She is currently fascinated by how the Polish-Jewish cultural borderlands are revealed in discourses on corporeality and sexuality. She has always had a lively scholarly curiousity regarding the ambiguous relations between Jewish and non-Jewish social actors at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.