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Karolina Krasuska
@karolinakrasuska.bsky.social
Prof., University of Warsaw | transnational literature, gender/queer theory | “Soviet-Born: Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” (Rutgers UP, 2024)| 🐈‍⬛owner | she/her
Tylko nieco ponad tydzień na rekrutację na nasze brand new studia @UniWarszawski #PłećiISeksualność. A fakultety to mamy super! irk.uw.edu.pl/pl/offer/PELNE…
July 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Excited for this event!
Karolina Krasuska and I getting together for a chat in Warsaw next week. Come if you’re in Warsaw / spread the word. This is one of a couple of events I’m doing while in Poland, at Karolina’s kind invitation—very much looking forward! www.asc.uw.edu.pl/event/may-13... @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Wondering what our Gender and Sexuality MA program is about? Our website is live!

gender.idub.uw.edu.pl/ps/en/home-p...
April 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It’s official as of today! This October we are starting Gender and Sexuality MA at the University of Warsaw! The first MA like that in Polish in Poland! Spread the word! And let’s cooperate!
March 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
On Monday!
Happening next week!

Join us @hgrporg.bsky.social at @senatehouselib.bsky.social for what promises to be a fascinating book talk with @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social about her latest work ⬇
Don't miss our next Book Talk where we will welcome Prof Karolina Krasuska who will speak with Prof Bryan Cheyette about her new book, Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction

Taking place at Senate House on 10 March

Get your free tickets🔗 https://buff.ly/3CfdXpR
March 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Coming at the 🇺🇦White House „spat” as a literature and languages scholar: the position of English as a foreign language becomes key. Native speakers vs. EFL speakers, clear hierarchies and possible strategies. A small 🧵from an Eastern European non-native speaker of English
March 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
London folks! I’ll be speaking about #SovietBorn 🌷on March 10, 6pm! At Senat House, University of London coorganized with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Hope to see you there!

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Book Talk: Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American[...]
Book Talk: Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction with Karolina Krasuska and Bryan Cheyette
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February 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And the first review is out!
Spoiler alert: it uses a lot of positive modifiers of Latin origin🤩
January 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New Yorkers!
🌷Tomorrow!
“Soviet-Born” book talk with Tahneer Oksman
🌷Brooklyn Library, Tuesday 14, 6pm

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Soviet-Born or How Immigrant Writers from the Former USSR Remade Jewish American Writing. Karolina Krasuska in conversation with Tahneer Oksman | Brooklyn Public Library
Please join us for a conversation with Karolina Krasuska, who, in her beautifully written and revelatory study of twenty-first-century Soviet-born Jewish writers published in English (Soviet-Born: The...
bklynlib.org
January 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Birthday girl in new glasses!
December 17, 2024 at 12:46 PM
This was a very cool panel! #AJS #GenderAndSexualityDivision
December 17, 2024 at 12:42 PM
TOMORROW!

AJS goers! Join us for the very 🔥roundtable

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY RESEARCH

Monday, Dec. 16, 10:30 ET / 16:30 Warsaw
December 15, 2024 at 11:19 PM
NYC people! January 14! Come to Brooklyn Public Library! I’ll be in conversation about „Soviet-Born” 🌷 with Tahneer Oksman.The title may be a little bombastic, but the answer is simple: women, women, women. OK, it’s not that simple.
Hope to see you there!

www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/sov...
December 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM
AJS goers! Join us for the very 🔥roundtable

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY RESEARCH

Monday, Dec. 16, 10:30 ET / 16:30 Warsaw
December 10, 2024 at 1:23 PM
It was fun yesterday! #SovietBorn🌷
Apparently I do use my hands a lot when talking. And I love props. Thank you to everyone who was there virtually at Jewish Community Library in SF. There is also a recording if you are curious if my gestures make *any*sense!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gV0V...
December 9, 2024 at 9:35 PM
#SovietBorn 🌷- laud and clear:)
A new discount code is active because of the upcoming conference of the Association of Jewish Studies! Save 30% on my paperback with RAJS30
December 8, 2024 at 9:33 PM

Tomorrow!
Join me for a book talk on my “Soviet-Born”
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
Online, 3pm ET/ 9pm CET

With thanks to Sasha Senderovich for putting me in touch with the host!

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Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction, with Karolina Krasuska, Jewish Community Library
Click here to register for this free virtual event.
jewishcommunitylibrary.org
December 7, 2024 at 5:57 PM
This was fun!
Yesterday @stuarttaberner.bsky.social and @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social gave a talk on “Soviet-Born Jewish Literature between North America and Germany” at the American Studies Center, Uni of Warsaw 🎙️ Check out the pics!
November 29, 2024 at 11:39 PM
1000 days since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and close to that since I’ve re-arranged my bookshelves
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Reposted by Karolina Krasuska
1000 days since Russia escalated in its war against Ukraine....
November 19, 2024 at 6:16 AM
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A bookish starter pack. There’s room for more…

go.bsky.app/2rrQH6G
November 17, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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Tom Gauld
November 16, 2024 at 12:36 PM
So one thing is being promoted, (university professor), but another thing is to really feel it. The research group Gender/Sexuality made a poster for me showing its feminist genealogies with me at the center. This was so moving!
Fyi there are only ca. 100 women univ. profs at the Uni of Warsaw
November 15, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Reposted by Karolina Krasuska
I wrote a review of Evan Friss's book on American bookstores. Certainly a conversation can be had about it includes and excludes, but I'm on the side of MORE research and focus. So I welcome it from that perspective. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
The Bookshop by Evan Friss | Book review
Evan Friss’s The Bookshop is an admirable exploration of US bookselling. It comprises thirteen chapters on various booksellers across US history, which are broken up by short interstitial pieces on bo...
www.the-tls.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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As more people join Bluesky, let’s make sure accessibility is part of the conversation.

Share to help us spread the word on World Kindness Day 🫶
November 13, 2024 at 10:36 AM