Dr Ewa Stańczyk is a Lecturer in East European Studies at the History Department, the University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Polish Studies from the University of Manchester (2010). Prior to her appointment at Amsterdam she was Thomas Brown Assistant Professor in Polish Studies at Trinity College Dublin (2010-2013). She held fellowships at Herder Institute, ZZF Potsdam, Dubnow Institute Leipzig, NIAS and the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Her recent publications include:
- Beyond Maus: Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust (guest editor). Special issue of Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17/1 (2018).
- “Exilic Childhood in Very Foreign Lands: The Memoirs of Polish Refugees in World War II”, Journal of War and Culture Studies 11/2 (2018): 136-149.
- “Poland’s Culture of Commemoration”, in Poland’s Memory Wars: Essays on Illiberalism, Jo Harper, ed. (Budapest: CEU Press, 2018).
- “Introduction”, Beyond Maus: Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17/1 (2018): 1-7.
- “De-Judaizing the Shoah in Polish Comic Books”, Beyond Maus: Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17/1 (2018): 36-50.