Kołodziejczyk Dorota

Dorota Kołodziejczyk is an Associate Professor at the School of British and Comparative Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. She chairs the Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre, an academic research unit established under the initiative of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, and founded the Postcolonial Studies Centre in 2008. Additionally, she co-founded the Postdependence Studies Centre, a research network addressing dependence and emancipation processes in Poland and Central/Eastern Europe.

• Current Positions: Associate Professor (School of British and Comparative Studies), Chair of Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre
• Founding Roles: Postcolonial Studies Centre (since 2008), Postdependence Studies Centre (since 2011)
• Collaborations: Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub Wrocław (2016–2018), SUNY Buffalo (Visiting Scholar, 2002–2004)

Research Interests span postcolonial studies, comparative literature, narratology, disability studies, translation studies, and postdependence studies. Her work explores literary cosmopolitanism, world literature, speculative narrative creativity, and posthumanist perspectives on disability. She has organized international conferences like Relocating Central Europe and contributed to academic networks focusing on systemic transitions post-historical breakthroughs.

Publications emphasize Central/Eastern European contexts within postcolonial frameworks, cultural landscapes, nationalism, and resistance. She has translated seminal postcolonial theorists (Spivak, Chakrabarty) into Polish and edited key texts in postcolonial studies.

Academic Leadership includes founding research centers and co-editing special issues of journals such as European Review and Miscellanea Posttotalitaria Wratislaviensia.