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Staff

Tomasz Żukowski 

PhD, Associate Professor
Further academic qualifications:
Habilitation – 2019, IBL PAN

Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism
Department of Contemporary Literature and Social Communication

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ORCID: 0000-0002-9787-9626

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.