PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Katarzyna Ojrzyńska

Katarzyna Ojrzyńska’s 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 – Reconfigurations.

Katarzyna Ojrzyńska has run a number of projects related to cultural disability studies as part of University’s internal grants as well as the project entitled: “At the Intersection of Disability Studies and Ecocriticism: Disability and Biodiversity in Selected Cultural Texts,” 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: “Recovering the Memory of the Victims of the Disabled Holocaust: History and Culture” (POLIN, 2018) and “Looking at and Perceiving Human Diversity” (Zachęta, 2019). She has translated a number of canonical theoretical texts related to disability studies into Polish (published in the volume entitled Odzyskiwanie obecności. Niepełnosprawność w teatrze i performansie, ed. Ewelina Godlewska-Byliniak and Justyna Lipko-Konieczna, Fundacja Teatr 21, Warszawa 2017) and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s book Staring: How We Look (Gapienie się, czyli o tym, jak patrzymy i jak pokazujemy siebie innym, Fundacja Teatr 21, Warszawa 2020).

Katarzyna Ojrzyńska has twice received the award of the Rector of the University of Lodz: in 2016 – a third-degree individual award for her book “Dancing as if language no longer existed”: Dance in Contemporary Irish Drama (Reimagining Ireland 61, Peter Lang, Oxford 2015), and in 2021 – 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 się, 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)