Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Mickiewicza 3
31-120 Kraków
Poland
ABOUT
I have graduated from the department of Russian Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), 2002. Between 2003-2003 I studied at the Russian Federation State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). In 2004 I took up PhD studies at Jagiellonian University devoted to Kurdish identity and literary issues. My PhD project received support from the Estreicher Foundation (2005) and the “Supervisor’s grant” (2007-2008) of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Since 2012 I have been the director of the interdisciplinary research project How to Make Voice Audible? Continuity and Change of Kurdish Culture and of Social Reality in the Postcolonial Perspectives (details: www.kurdishstudies.pl)financed by Polish National Science Centre (NCN). I have published:
Mi?dzy ciemno?ci? i ?wiat?em. O kurdyjskiej to?samo?ci i literaturze (Between Darkness and Light. About Kurdish Identity and Literature),2011
and Polish translation of Kurdish fairy tales from Calils' family collection (2014, Opowie?ci dengbe?ów. Ba?nie i bajki kurdyjskie)
as well as many articles. I am the editor in chief of Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies published on the project's website and photographer. My portraits of Kurdish people are available online:
http://www.kurdishstudies.pl/?en_the-kurds-by-joanna-bochenska,46
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Gender/Women's Studies
Kurdish
Kurdish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Anatolia
Caucasus
Kurdistan
Specialties
Kurdish Literature, Art And Language, Gender, Heritage, Yezidism, Islam,
Languages
Polish (native)
Kurdish (advanced)
Russian (advanced)
English (fluent)
Turkish (intermediate)
Ukrainian (elementary)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2009
| Section of Kurdish Studies, Department of Iranian
| Jagiellonian University
Abstracts
Between Honour and Dignity. Kurdish Modern Literature’s Attempt to Rethink Identity and Resistance
Beyond the state: Literary geography in the works of Kurdish writers from Turkey
"The Lady with a Book": The Representation of the Poet Masture Ardalan (1805-1847) as an Example of the Performed Heritage Inspiring Women Agency and Kurdish Identity in Iranian Kurdistan
Building Heritage Bridges: Different Dialects, Memories and Cultures in the Kurdish Transnational Context in the Middle East
