Dorota Glowacka
, University of King's College, Canada

Dorota Glowacka is Professor of Humanities at the University of King’s College, where she has been teaching critical theory, Holocaust and genocide studies and theories of gender and race in the Contemporary Studies Program since 1995. She also lectures in the Foundation Year Program and at Dalhousie University, where she has been cross-appointed to the graduate faculties of English, Gender and Women’s Studies, European Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests include Holocaust and genocide literature and art, with special interests in gender and genocide and the intersections of the Holocaust and settler colonial genocide in North America. Other research interests include continental philosophy; ethics and politics of memory; philosophy “after Auschwitz”; Polish-Jewish relations after the Holocaust; critical race theory, and gender theory.  Among her publications are Po tamtej stronie: świadectwo, afekt, wyobraźnia [From the other side: testimony, affect, imagination], 2017, Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials, Ethics and Aesthetics (2012), Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust (with Joanna Zylinska, 2007) as well as many articles and book chapters, including “‘Never Forget’: Indigenous Memory of the Genocide and the Holocaust,” published in 2019 in the book Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World.

Read more about Professor Glowacka's work on her faculty website here.