Academic interests
multilingual education; migration; refugee-background students; teacher education; social justice; sustainability; narratives; counter-storytelling; translanguaging; humanizing, participatory and arts-based research methods; humanizing and socially just pedagogies; spaces of hope; identities; raciolinguistics; curriculum and instruction
Educational background
2020. Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, ESOL/ Bilingual Education, School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Florida, USA
- 2013. MA Applied Linguistics, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland
- 2013. Postgraduate Studies, Latin America in the Modern World , Center for Latin American Studies (CESLA), University of Warsaw, Poland
- 2012. Postgraduate Studies, Cultural Diplomacy, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland
- 2012. Erasmus Student Exchange, École de Traduction et Interprétation ISTI – Cooremans, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- 2011. Bilateral Exchange Program (University of Warsaw award), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA
- 2010. BA Applied Linguistics, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Academic positions held
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MultiLing, University Of Oslo, Norway
- Research Assistant, in Project STELLAR (Supporting Teachers of English Language Learners Across Rural Settings) funded by the US Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), Washington, DC. (PI: Maria R. Coady, Ph.D.), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Research Assistant, Irving and Rose Fien Endowed Professorship (PI: Maria R. Coady, Ph.D.), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
University courses taught
- LING1109 Multilingualism (Fleirpråklegheit) (Fall 2024), University of Oslo, Norway
- LING4140 Linguistic Method (Fall 2022, 2024), University of Oslo, Norway
- MULTI4195 Supervision of Master's Thesis in Multilingualism (2024, 2025), University of Oslo, Norway
- NOAS 4102 Second Language Learning from a Socio-cognitive and Sociocultural Perspective (Spring 2022), University of Oslo, Norway
- CM3 - Research Methods in Education (Humanizing research methodology) (Fall 2019), University of Warsaw, Poland
- TSL 4100 ESOL Curriculum, Methods & Assessment (Spring 2018), School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, USA
- TSL 4324 ESOL Strategies for the Content Area Teacher (Fall 2017), School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, USA
Selected awards
- Fulbright Graduate Student Award, 2016-2018
- Delta Kappa Gamma Society International: World Fellowship, USA, 2016-2017
- Finalist of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Second Language Research (SLR) Special Interest Group Outstanding Dissertation Award (2021 & 2022), USA
- Finalist of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group Outstanding Dissertation Award (2022), USA
- Early Career Scholar Speaker Award, International Symposium on Bilingualism ISB 13 (2021), University of Warsaw, Poland
Selected scientific events
- Multilingual identities in refugee-background students' voices. Counter-stories from Poland. (2021). Paper presented at “Language and Migration: Experience and Memory” Symposium, co-sponsored by Migration Lab of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies , Princeton University and the Study Group for Language and the United Nation , USA
- Early Career Scholar Speaker Keynote Speech, International Symposium on Bilingualism ISB 13 (2021), University of Warsaw, Poland
- Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
(mentor: Prof. Anna De Fina)