Karolina Krasuska is literary and cultural studies scholar and critic, and translator. She is Associate Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland, founder of the research group Gender/Sexuality, and co-founder of the MA Gender & Sexuality program at the University of Warsaw. Her research areas include transnational literature, centrally Jewish American literature, and gender/queer studies. She graduated 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 the National Science Centre, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scholars), the University of Warsaw Excellence Initiative, Heinrich Bőll Stiftung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 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). She was a co-chair of the Gender and Sexuality Division at the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) and she currently serves as a member of the AJS Program Committee. She also sits on the Executive Committee of the Jewish American Literature Forum of the Modern Language Association.
Karolina Krasuska 