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Katarzyna Bojarska, Ph.D. is a cultural researcher. Her professional interests include visual culture, contemporary art, cultural memory as well as trauma and affect studies.

Dr. Bojarska was a Principal Investigator in several research projects, most recently a study funded by the National Science Center: “The Wives of Lot. Female forms of remembering, testifying and looking at the past” (2021-2023), and previously, in a group project “Świat jako archiwum – krytyczne modele historyczności” [The world as an archive: critical models of historicity] (NPRH 2012–2014). She also led a group of Polish researchers and was responsible for a Work Package in an international project RE-Past: Strengthening European integration through the analysis of conflict discourses: revisiting the past, anticipating the future (Horizon2020, 2018–2021).

In 2019, she was the Fulbright Slavic Research Fellow at the University of Chicago, in the United States.

Dr. Bojarska is the President of View. Foundation for Visual Culture and a co-founder and editor of View: Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, a peer reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal devoted to the theory and practices of visual culture.

At SWPS University she teaches classes in visual culture, contemporary art, art criticism, theory and practices of cultural memory, and English for Academic Purposes (EAP).