I’m a feminist philosopher and interdisciplinary researcher with a background in literary and cultural studies combined with academic experience in social science projects.
As a Senior Research Follow in a predominantly impact-focused postdoc role, I currently work on the project "RESIST. Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics" (EU Horizon Europe Grant No. 101060749), supporting dissemination & communication activities and the case study on Poland (both led by Dr Roberto Kulpa, Edinburgh Napier University).
During my doctoral studies at the Graduate School for Social Research (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) in Warsaw, I led and managed two research grants totaling $22K, successfully completing a 9-month research project conducted in the United States as part of Fulbright Junior Research Award.
In my doctoral dissertation (which drew on my professional experience as a children’s literature translator), I explored embodied masculine subjectivities in contemporary American fiction for children and adolescents through the lens of feminist philosophy, creating a theoretical framework that blended Karen Barad’s agential realism with Adriana Cavarero’s theories of voice, narratable subjectivity, and inclination. The dissertation was awarded a distinction for innovative contributions to philosophy.
I’m also the co-editor of two social science books (both with Prof. Joshua K. Dubrow, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology)—Gender, Voice, and Violence in Poland: Women's Protests during the Pandemic and Gender Quotas Post-Communist World: Voice of the Parliamentarians—available in open access.
While still a doctoral student, I worked in Research Assistant capacity on social science projects led by established academics from the Polish Academy of Sciences, including the Polish Panel Survey (funded by the Polish National Science Centre) and the European Social Survey.
When not working on social science projects, I test the limits of philosophical writing, creating semi-literary, semi-academic experimental short texts, exploring themes that interest me as a philosopher—embodiment, difference, otherness, vulnerability, care, relationality, autonomy—and illustrating them with selected works of culture (and, quite often, pop-culture). Two collections of such essays are currently being considered by Polish publishers.
With over a decade of writing experience and three years in marketing, I combine business acumen, project management, creative problem-solving, and advanced research expertise to drive impactful research and effectively communicate its outcomes.
Research Interests
Continental feminist philosophy
Gendered embodiment and embodied voice
Feminist new materialism
American literature and culture
Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytical theory
Queer-feminist resistances to anti-gender politics across Europe
Social movements in Poland
Teaching and Learning
In 2020-2021, I co-taught (together with Prof. Adam Lipszyc) “Visions of Human Subjectivity in Late Modern and Postmodern Philosophy,” a seminar for PhD students at the Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR) in Warsaw. For this course, I took the lead on creating a syllabus that introduced texts on feminist philosophy by female and non-binary authors.
In 2022, I was a guest lecturer for “Gender Equality and Women’s Agency in Central and Eastern Europe: Social and Economic Perspective,” a course for MA students at GSSR, led by Prof. Magdalena Grabowska, where I taught classes on postcolonialism, gender, and feminist mass mobilizations in Eastern Europe.
I also co-authored a teaching module for The Ohio State University’s Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in the form of a website titled “Women, Politics, and Protest in Central and Eastern Europe”.
I'm interested in learning more about my teaching style and methods, and I look forward to working with students at Napier.
