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Katarzyna Ojrzy艅ska鈥檚 interests focus on cultural disability studies, performance studies, the environmental humanities, and Irish studies. She regularly collaborates with the Downtown Centre of Inclusive Art and Prace Polonistyczne/Studies in Polish Literature (as a language editor). She is also a member of the research platform Disability Studies in East Europe 鈥� Reconfigurations.

Katarzyna Ojrzy艅ska has run a number of projects related to cultural disability studies as part of University鈥檚 internal grants as well as the project entitled: 鈥淎t the Intersection of Disability Studies and Ecocriticism: Disability and Biodiversity in Selected Cultural Texts,鈥� sponsored by PFRON (State Fund for the Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities). In recent years she has been popularizing cultural disability studies in Poland. In 2015 she organized the conference Negotiating Space for (Dis)Ability in Drama, Theatre, Film, and Media (2015). As part of her collaboration with Theatre 21 Foundation and the Downtown Centre of Inclusive Art, she gave two public lectures: 鈥淩ecovering the Memory of the Victims of the Disabled Holocaust: History and Culture鈥� (POLIN, 2018) and 鈥淟ooking at and Perceiving Human Diversity鈥� (Zach臋ta, 2019). She has translated a number of canonical theoretical texts related to disability studies into Polish (published in the volume entitled Odzyskiwanie obecno艣ci. Niepe艂nosprawno艣膰 w teatrze i performansie, ed. Ewelina Godlewska-Byliniak and Justyna Lipko-Konieczna, Fundacja Teatr 21, Warszawa 2017) and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson鈥檚 book Staring: How We Look (Gapienie si臋, czyli o tym, jak patrzymy i jak pokazujemy siebie innym, Fundacja Teatr 21, Warszawa 2020).

Katarzyna Ojrzy艅ska has twice received the award of the Rector of the 91滴滴: in 2016 鈥� a third-degree individual award for her book 鈥淒ancing as if language no longer existed鈥�: Dance in Contemporary Irish Drama (Reimagining Ireland 61, Peter Lang, Oxford 2015), and in 2021 鈥� an first-degree individual award for a cycle of publications.

cultural disability studies, performance studies, the environmental humanities, Irish studies

The author of 'Dancing as if language no longer existed': Dance in Contemporary Irish Drama (Peter Lang, 2014)

The co-editor (with Maciejem Wieczorkiem) of Disability and Dissensus: Strategies of Disability Representation and Inclusion in Contemporary Culture (Brill, 2020)

The translator of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's Gapienie si臋, czyli o tym, jak patrzymy i jak pokazujemy siebie innym (Fundacja Teatr 21, 2020)

The author of the project At the Intersection of Disability Studies and Ecocriticism: Disability and Biodiversity in Selected Cultural Texts (PFRON 2020-2021)