Joanna Burdzel

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures

Joanna earned her B.A. in Russian and Studies in World Literature from the College of the Holy Cross in 2019, with a minor in philosophy. As an undergraduate she studied at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, and at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She was awarded a Jurzykowski Dissertation Research and Writing Grant for the 2024-2025 academic year, and is currently based in Kraków, Poland. 

Research interests: 20th century intellectual history, poetry, women’s writing, religious studies, autoethnography.