Associate Professor
Further academic qualifications:
Habilitation – 2019, IBL PAN
Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism
Department of Contemporary Literature and Social Communication
Research interests
- Polish modern literature, culture and film
- critical analysis of public discourse (including media and popular culture)
- Holocaust testimonies and literature
- identity issues at the point of convergence of minorities and the dominant group
- Polish Popular Republic literature and film
- discourses concerning Polish Popular Republic
Selected publications
- Janicka, Elżbieta, and Tomasz Żukowski. Philo-Semitic Violence. Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives. Lanham, Boudler, New York, London: Lexington Books 2021.
- Hopfinger, Maryla, and Tomasz Żukowski, eds. The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015. The Story of Innocence. Palgrave Macmillan 2021. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-66408-4.
- Żukowski, Tomasz. Pod presją. Co mówią o Zagładzie ci, którym odbieramy głos [Under the pressure. What do those we silence say about the Holocaust?]. Warsaw: Wielka Litera, 2021.
- Żukowski, Tomasz. Eroticism and Power. In: Reassessing Communism. Concepts, Culture, and Society in Poland 1944-1989. Eds. Chmielewska, K., Mrozik, A., Wołowiec, G., Budapest-New York: CEU Press, 2021, pp. 115-140.
- Żukowski, Tomasz. Wielki retusz. Jak zapomnieliśmy, że Polacy zabijali Żydów [The Great Whitewash. How have we Forgotten that the Poles were Killing Jews]. Warsaw: Wielka Litera, 2018.
Additional information
Participation in research projects and networks:
- 2012-2016 - New Paradigm? The Image of Polish-Jewish Relationship In Chosen Texts of Culture after 2000; National Center of Science (NCN), Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; chief investigator.
- 2013-2019 - In Face of the Holocaust – towards the demythologization of the descriptive categories. The category of “indifferent witnesses"; National Humanities Development Program (NPRH), Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, headed by prof. M. Hopfinger; co-author of the project.
- 2013-2018 - Between Art and Everyday Life – Towards a New Synthesis; National Humanities Development Program (NPRH), Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, headed by prof. Z. Ziątek; co-author of the project.
- 2013-2019 - Communism - the history of the concept in Poland in 1944-1989. Interpretations and uses: literature, culture, society; National Humanities Development Program (NPRH), Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, headed by prof. M. Głowiński; participation.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9787-9626
Contact: tomasz.zukowski@ibl.waw.pl
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