Dorota Kołodziejczyk - Biography#

Dorota Kołodziejczyk is Associate Professor at the School of British and Comparative Studies, English Department, Wrocław, Poland. She is chair of the Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Сentre. Academic Research Centre, a unit set up on the initiative of the Nobel Prize winner in literature for 2018, Olga Tokarczuk, and her foundation, at the University of Wrocław. She is also founder and chair of Postcolonial Studies Centre at her department, a unit she has run since 2008. She is co-founder and board member of the Postdependence Studies Centre, a research network of Polish universities that, since 2011, has set up a new field of studies in Poland and abroad concerned with researching the processes of dependence, emancipation, systemic, cultural and social transitions following major historical breakthroughs in Poland and Eastern and Central Europe. In all of these capacities she has organized, practically every year since 2008, the launching of the Postcolonial Studies Centre, an international seminar of conference each year, among others, a series of conferences with Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub Wrocław titled “Relocating Central Europe” (2016-2018), with Pieter Emmer and Siegfried Huigen, followed up by other research events co-organized with the AE Hub.

She is author of publications in the field of postcolonial studies, comparative literature, cultural and literary translation. She is interested in literary cosmopolitanism, world literature, the speculative potential of narrative creativity and posthumanist perspectives in cultural studies, especially in disability studies.

She has translated major postcolonial thinkers into Polish (Spivak, Chakrabarty, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Partha Chatterjee), or was translation editor of key titles in postcolonial studies in Poland.