Jędrzej Burszta

Cultural studies scholar, ethnographer, Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. In 2019 he received his doctoral degree in cultural studies from the SWPS University in Warsaw for a dissertation examining the queer history of American science fiction literature. His research interests include American popular and alternative culture, speculative fiction, retrofuturism, queer studies, ethnography of memory. Between 2017 and 2019, he conducted ethnographic research as part of the international project “CRUSEV: Cruising the Seventies”. Recently, he co-edited with Tomasz Basiuk and Agnieszka Kościańska the volume Odmieńczość: obywatelstwo seksualne i archiwum (WUW 2024). He is currently PI in the research project “Psychedelic Culture in Poland: Practices and Discourses” (2024–2026).