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Monika Smialkowska is an Assistant Professor in the Humanities Department at Northumbria University, specializing in early modern literature and cultural history. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Gloucestershire (2002) and has held academic roles since 2002, including at the University Centre Doncaster (2002-2009) as a research and teaching fellow. Her work focuses on Shakespearean commemorations, adaptation, and collective identity formation through cultural memory.
Research interests include the political uses of Shakespeare’s cultural capital, particularly in national and imperial contexts. Notable works include her monograph Shakespeare's Tercentenary: Staging Nations and Performing Identities in 1916 (Cambridge UP, 2024) and co-edited Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016 (Palgrave, 2021). She has also explored 'Offensive Shakespeare' through conferences and public lectures.
Smialkowska holds editorial roles for Shakespeare journal and has received Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowships (2006, 2014). Her research bridges literary analysis with historical and sociopolitical inquiry, examining how literary figures are repurposed across time and space.
