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Academic Profile

Associate Professor at the Department of Iranian Studies of Jagiellonian University, currently serving as the head of the department, head of the Section of Kurdish studies

Sample Publications

Joanna Bocheńska, Azad Rahim Hajiagha, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Karol Kaczorowski (2025). Performing Citizenship by “Doing Art”. Women, Art, and Negotiations in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat). The Drama Review 69 (1), 36-53

Joanna Bocheńska, Azad Hajiagha, Dissonant Heritage and Women Empowerment: Mestûre Erdelan (1805–1847) as an Example of Performed Heritage in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat), Heritage&Society, 1-23

Joanna Bocheńska, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Kaziwa Salih, Hüseyin Rodi Keskin, “Small Circles of Empowerment Kurdish Women Claiming Citizen Rights and Agency through Language Revitalisation”, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights Vol 31 (1), 2023, 133-162.

Joanna Bocheńska and Farangis Ghaderi, “Gan qey bedenî yeno çi mana’ (What the Soul Means for the Body): Collecting and Archiving Kurdish Folklore as a Strategy for Language Revitalization and Indigenous Knowledge Production”, Folklore No. 134(3), 344-369, 2023

Joanna Bocheńska “From Dengbêj to Modern Writer: Heritagization of Kurdish Oral Tradition and Revitalization of Kurdish Language in the Works of Mehmed Uzun and Mehmet Dicle”, Iranian Studies 2022 55(4), 899-927. doi:10.1017/irn.2022.1

Joanna Bocheńska and Karwan Fatah, “An Intellectual on a Mission: Abdullah Jalal Fatah, his dissertation on Kurdish culture (1978) and heritage-making inspired by Józef Chałasiński and Polish academia”, Kurdish Studies, 2021 9 (2); 155-173., 

Scholarly Interests

Kurdish literature, art, cinema and language, heritage, language revitalisation, gender and citizenship

Current Position

researcher, Jagiellonian University