AGATA CHALUPNIK
Agata Chałupnik, PhD, graduated Theatre Studies at The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (1996) and postgraduate studies in Institute of Polish Culture at The University of Warsaw (2001), where she has been working since her PhD. She is co-editor of the readers Anthropology of the performance (Antropologia widowisk, 2005, 2010), Anthropology of the body (Antropologia ciała, 2008) and co-author of the book Polish customs. XXth century in
short articles (Obyczaje polskie. Wiek XX w krótkich hasłach, 2008). The author of the books They waved their skirts to become standard-bearers. Zapolska and Nałkowska about female experience of the body (2004) and „Don’t make a drama out of a memory!” Auschwitz in the works by Marian Pankowski (2017). She is a member of the project „HyPaTia. Kobieca Historia Polskiego Teatru. Feministyczny Projekt Badawczy” (HyPaTia. Feminine History of Polish Theatre. A Feminist Research Project). Recent fields of interest are women in history of Polish theatre and a theatre as the medium of memory.