Professor Dr. Katarzyna Williams

Biography

Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams is the Deputy Director of the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University. Prior to joining ANU, she served as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of International Studies and Politics at the University of Lodz in Poland. Her expertise includes research and teaching roles in cultural studies, Anglophone literatures and cultures, literary anthropology, and translation. She has been a visiting fellow at prestigious institutions including the University of Ghent, Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Bamberg, and Vaxjo University. Additionally, she has worked with Monash University in Australia and the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies in the Netherlands. With extensive experience in higher education, she has developed graduate and undergraduate programmes and is an advocate for language education in Australia. Her research interests revolve around migrant cultures and diaspora, especially life narratives and the politics of memorialization. She has published extensively on diasporic literatures and has focused on the intersections of migration, memory, and identity in her work. Moreover, she has been actively involved in educational administration and has served as President of the ACT Bilingual Education Alliance. Katarzyna is a dedicated literary translator and has contributed to various publications.

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