Dorota Sosnowska

 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Polish Culture (Department of Theater and Performance) at University of Warsaw. The author of the book about three actresses of the communist period in Poland entitled “Królowe PRL. Sceniczne wizerunki Ireny Eichlerówny, Niny Andrycz i Elżbiety Barszczewskiej jako modele kobiecości” (2014). She has participated in scientific projects Sources and Mediations (NPRH funds), Performances of Memory (NCN) and Mask in the Culture of Modern Europe (NCN). She has published articles in Polish and foreign academic journals such as Performance Research and Czech Theatralia. She is co-editor of the book Robotnik. Performances of Memory (Theater Institute/KiP, 2017). She is currently working on the project Odmieńcy. Performances of Otherness in the Polish Transition Culture  (NCN) and is a co-investigator in the project Epidemics and Communities in Critical Theories, Artistic Practices and Speculative Fiction of Recent Decades. She is a member of the Historiography working group within the International Federation for Theater Research. From 2009 to 2011 she worked at the Dramatyczny Theater in Warsaw.