Joanna Ziarkowska

Joanna Ziarkowska is an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes: Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature (2021) and the co-editor of In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race, and Ethnicity (2012). She has published several articles and chapters on Native American literature and medical humanities. Her recent article, Shaping Indian biocitizens: Americanisation through medical education in the TB sanatorium paper Sioux San Sun (1938–1941), was published in Medical Humanities. She teaches courses on Indigenous literatures, medical humanities, and film studies at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. She does her best to provide exquisite service to her three cats – Kazia, Batman, and Łatka. She identifies as CCL (crazy cat lady).