Education:

German Studies (Filologia Germańska) in Łódź, Passau (Erasmus) and Berlin (DAAD); degree from Uniwersytet Łódzki, 2006.

PhD in the Humanities, Literary Studies, 2014. Doctoral dissertation: “Danzig / Gdańsk als Erinnerungsort im Werk von Günter Grass, Stefan Chwin und Paweł Huelle” .

Since 2011: Instytut Filologii Germańskiej UŁ (since 2017 as Assistant Professor).

Research Projects:

2026–2029: NCN, Sonata BIS, Literary Representations of Lebensborn e.V. , 2025/58/E/HS2/00114.

2022–2023: NCN, Miniatura-6, The Image of Lebensborn e.V. in Nazi Speeches, 1935–1945 , 2022/06/X/HS2/00422.

Scholarships and Research Stays:

2026: Research stay within the UNIC Seed Fund programme, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB).

2025: NAWA PROM scholarship in Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgenforschung.

2024: DAAD scholarship, Universität Leipzig, Germanistik.

2008: DPI scholarship, Darmstadt.

2005: DAAD scholarship, Humboldt Universität Berlin.

2005: Erasmus, Universität Passau.

Memberships:

Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik

German Studies Association

Lebensspuren e.V.

Stowarzyszenie Güntera Grassa

Contemporary German-language literature and culture; theories of memory and memory studies, with a particular focus on sites of memory; Polish-German relations; German cinema; Norse mythology and its reception in literature and culture; representations of the Third Reich and the Second World War in cultural texts, with particular emphasis on forgotten and marginalized groups of victims; the activities of Lebensborn e.V. and Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV); children’s experiences during the Second World War and their representations in cultural texts, including war trauma, Germanization, and the camp for children and adolescents on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź.

2014 – PhD in the Humanities, Literary Studies

2017 – Individual Rector’s Award, Second Degree

Principal Investigator of research projects funded by the National Science Centre (NCN): MINIATURA 6 and SONATA BIS

Scholarships and research stays at international academic and research institutions, including in Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna and Bochum