I am Deputy Director at the Centre for European Studies, Australian National University. Before joining the ANU, I was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of International Studies and Politics, University of Lodz (Poland), where I worked in research and teaching roles in cultural studies, Anglophone literatures and cultures, literary anthropology and translation. 

As Visiting Fellow I worked at the University of Ghent (Belgium), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), University of Bamberg (Germany), Vaxjo University (Sweden), Monash University (Australia) and the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, Teikyo University (Netherlands).

I have extensive experience in teaching and educational administration, and course development at undergraduate and graduate levels. I co-authored graduate and postgraduate studies programmes in Europe and Australia.

I am a strong advocate of language education. Since 2019 I have been President of the ACT Bilingual Education Alliance, I regularly volunteer as language educator (Libraries ACT and community language schools) and I worked as a literary and academic translator (published).

PhD (University of Lodz); Diploma of Education (University of Wroclaw); MA (University of Wroclaw); BA (University of Wroclaw)

My research focuses on migrant cultures and diaspora, particularly life narratives, issues of displacement and transcultural experience. I am also interested in memory studies, memorialization and the politics of memory. I have published extensively on European diasporic literatures and cultures in Australia, global literatures in English and literary theory, including a book on changes in literary production and reception (Deforming Shakespeare: Investigations in Textuality and Digital Media, 2009). Recently, I have been working on a series of publications on the nexus between migration, memory and identity.