Dr. Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz

Affiliated Researcher

Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz is an assistant professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Committee of Women’s History (a section of the Polish National Historical Committee). Her research interests include gender history in post-war Poland and history of popular culture. She has a PhD in literary studies and an M.A. in history.

Selected Publications

• Stańczak-Wiślicz, Katarzyna. “Practicing modernity at home: Expert discourses and women’s narratives on household in late socialist Poland.” In Gender and History (2023): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12764.
• Stańczak-Wiślicz, Katarzyna. “Eating healthy, eating modern. The ‘urbanization’ of food tastes in communist Poland (1945–1989).” In Ethnologia Polona 41, (2020): 141 –162. DOI:10.23858/ethp.2020.41.2303.
• Stańczak-Wiślicz, Katarzyna. The Autobiographical Self in the Service of History: Martial Law Period Diaries Written by Women, 1981–1983, Teksty Drugie English edition 1 (2020): 305-321. DOI:10.18318/td.2020.en.1.22.

Focus in the HERESSEE Project:

• Women’s knowledge production and expertization in Poland in the 1960s.
• Jewish intellectual feminism.
• Human rights and liberal dissidence.