Bio
Paulina Duda is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Polish Language and Central European Cinema at Brown University, as well as an Assistant Professor in the New Media Arts Department at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan (2017), her MA from University College London, and her BA from Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
Her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of nationalism and filmmaking in Poland, film production and distribution under Communism, the director’s role in society, and the aesthetics of music videos.
She publishes essays, translations and reviews in The Polish Review, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, East European Film Bulletin and Words without Borders, and is a jury member of the long standing Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. She is a recipient of many scholarships including Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), Kosciuszko Foundation, Rackham International Research Award and Copernicus Endowment Fellowship.
