Maria Juda

Maria Juda is a Professor at the Department of Information and Digital Culture, Institute of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), Lublin. She has held leadership roles including Director of the Institute of Information Science and Library Studies (2003-2019), Head of the Department of Digital Humanities (2019-2020), and Director of the Doctoral School of Humanities (2019-2022). Her work bridges historical bibliography, book culture, and digital humanities.

Research Interests focus on:

• History of Polish printing (15th-18th centuries)
• Historical bibliography and book provenance
• Cultural heritage of Lublin and local communities
• Archival science and digitalization methodologies
• Interdisciplinary analysis of book culture
• Polonica collections in international libraries

Key Achievements include:

• Monographs: Pismo drukowane w Polsce XV-XVIII wieku (2001) and Przywileje drukarskie w Polsce (1992)
• Editorial leadership for Folia Bibliologica and critical source editions
• Establishment of the Humanistic Laboratory of Digitalization and Information Visualization
• Active participation in Polish Academy of Sciences committees and cultural societies