Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska
Professor
Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska is a philosopher, cultural critic and author with an interdisciplinary approach to research bridging philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and art theory (MA Philosophy, MA Applied Linguistics, PhD Philosophy of Culture, University of Warsaw; Habilitation in Philosophy, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University of Lublin). Associate Professor of Art Theory at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw and at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, lectures at Collegium Civitas. She is the author of Po-twarz. (After-face. Transgressing Visibility in Art and Philosophy, Słowo/obraz terytoria 2016) and Dyrygując falom (Conducting the waves. Thinking in Musical and Visual Avant-gardes, Słowo/obraz terytoria 2019). She was Chair in Humanities at University Rennes-2, France in 2018. She is currently co-editing Politics of Face. Aesthetic seduction and ethical gaze, to be published in 2023 in Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Since 2022 she has been Associate Researcher at Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. She currently works on the question of contemporary metamorphosis in art and philosophy in Institute ACTE, Aesthetics and Critical Theories of Culture (Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne).
