Katarzyna Pabijanek is a curator, critic, and lecturer in the Gender Studies program at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include feminist art theory and practice, the construction and uses of gender hierarchies in post-communist societies, and gender policy in global settings. She holds MA degrees in Linguistics from Eötvös Loránd University and in Gender Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and a PhD in Cultural Studies and Neophilology from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland.