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The South Asian Institute welcomes Dr. Justyna Kurowska as Research Assistant at the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures. She studied Indology at the University of Warsaw and Hindi at the Centre of Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She received her PhD in 2019 at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Warsaw University on the modern Hindi novel´s approach to death, dying and the dead body.

Prior to joining SAI, she worked as a Lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland).  Since 2018, she works in two British Library funded projects within “Endangered Archives Programme”. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University and between 2009 and 2015 as a Research Assistant at the Bonn University, where she taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in Hindi, literature and film of South Asia.

Her research interests are in memory studies, modern Hindi literature, with focus on the novel, death, body, and violence, written and oral narratives, especially of convicts from the penal colony in the Andaman Islands.