PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Łukasz Biskupski

Cultural historian and film studies scholar at the University of Łódź, specializing in cultural history of cinema, mass culture, and urban entertainment, with particular emphasis on early cinema in Poland and cultural modernization processes. His research integrates cultural history, film studies, and materialist cultural analysis. He received his MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Łódź and completed his doctoral studies at SWPS University in Warsaw with a distinguished dissertation on street art and visual culture, which was awarded the Inka Brodzka-Wald Prize by the Polish Academy of Sciences. After his doctorate, he conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Gdańsk as part of a National Science Centre FUGA grant.

Before focusing fully on academic work, he served as Academic Program Curator at the Museum of Art in Łódź, Curator at the National Center for Film Culture, and Program Director of the Regional Congress of Culture in Łódź.

Dr. Biskupski is a co-founder and former vice-chairman of the Urban Initiatives Association "Topografie" in Łódź. He was part of the team developing programs at the Municipal Culture Point Prexer-UŁ, a cultural center operating under the patronage of the University of Łódź. He co-authored the concept for Miastograf.pl, the Digital Archive of Łódź Citizens.

Academic Career

University of Łódź (2020-present)
• Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Gdańsk (2016-2019), National Science Centre FUGA Grant
• SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw (2013-2016)

Research Projects

"History of the Sfinks Company Against the Background of Film Industry Organization in the Second Polish Republic" (2016-2019) - Principal Investigator, Post-doctoral National Science Centre FUGA Grant (2016/20/S/HS2/00121)
• "History of Popular Culture in Poland in the First Half of the 20th Century from a Transmedial Perspective" (2013-2016) - Main Researcher, National Science Centre SONATA BIS Grant (2012/07/E/HS2/03878)
• "Popular Culture and Early Cinema in Polish Territories Under Russian Rule 1890-1914" (2013-2015) - Principal Investigator, National Programme for the Development of Humanities Grant (21H12020681)

Conference Organization

Chairman of Organizing Committee, "History of Popular Culture in Poland until 1939," SWPS University (2015)
• Member of Organizing Committee, "Archives of/for the Future" - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) Congress, University of Łódź (2014)