Helena Krasowska


Helena Krasowska is a Polish linguist and professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsawand visiting professor at the Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Warsaw. She specializes in issues related to dialectology, sociolinguistics, ethnology, and folklore. Her has authored 7 original monographs and co-authored 8 others.

Career

Since 2004, she has been employed at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She specializes in issues related to dialectology, sociolinguistics, ethnology, and folklore. Her scientific interests focus on the issues of national and linguistic minorities, linguistic biographies, cultural borderlands, linguistic contacts, multilingualism, multi-social and individual memory.
She is particularly interested in the region Bukovina. She conducts field research in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Georgia.
Her achievements include 7 original monographs and 8 co-authored monographs. Krasowska also translates poetry from Polish to Ukrainian, writes essays and poems.

Publications

The Polish Minority in South-Eastern Ukraine, Warszawa: Instytut Slawistyki PAN, 2017, Соціолінгвістичний компендіум, Kijów: Polska Akademia Nauk 2020. Języki mniejszości. Status – prestiż – dwujęzyczność – wielojęzyczność, Warszawa: Studium Europy Wschodniej UW, 2020 Świadectwo zanikającego dziedzictwa. Mowa polska na Bukowinie: Rumunia – Ukraina. Warszawa: Instytut Slawistyki PAN, 2018. Mniejszość polska na południowo-wschodniej Ukrainie, Warszawa: Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, 2012, Górale polscy na Bukowinie Karpackiej. Studium socjolingwistyczne i leksykalne, Warszawa: Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, 2006

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