Dr Kasia Williams
Kasia Williams is the Deputy Director at the Centre for European Studies at ANU. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz in Poland and has held visiting fellowships at various international universities. Kasia's research focuses on migrant cultures and diaspora, especially life narratives, displacement, transcultural experiences, and the politics of memory. Kasia is also active in bilingual education initiatives and works as a language educator and literary translator.
Research Interest
My research focuses on migrant cultures and diaspora, particularly life narratives, issues of displacement and transcultural experience. I am also interested in memory studies, memorialization and the politics of memory. I have published extensively on European diasporic literatures and cultures in Australia, global literatures in English and literary theory, including a book on changes in literary production and reception (Deforming Shakespeare: Investigations in Textuality and Digital Media, 2009). Recently, I have been working on a series of publications on the nexus between migration, memory and identity.