A graduate in Classical Philology from the University of Warsaw, specializing in Renaissance literature and culture. Her research focuses on the history of the book and of reading in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed books. Since 2025 she has been a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Advanced Grant project Scholars, Animals, Images, Geographies, and the Arts: De-exoticizing Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period (SAIGA), led by Prof. Grażyna Jurkowlaniec.
From 2022 to 2026 she carried out the Preludium project The Circulation of Incunabula in Early Modern Warsaw: A Case Study of the Library of the Metropolitan Seminary of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN). In it she studied the migration of Warsaw’s oldest collections of printed books and reader reception of incunabula.
Since 2015 she has worked in the Early Printed Books Department of the University of Warsaw Library (BUW), where she is curator of the Polish Provenance Database. Since 2024 she has been a member of the Provenance Working Group and the Incunabula Working Group of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), and a board member of the Polish Provenance Working Group at the Ossoliński National Institute (Ossolineum).
Selected publications
Monography
Topografie cudowności. Bestsellerowy przewodnik po Rzymie z 1575 roku w rękach autorów, wydawców i czytelników [Topographies of Marvels: A Bestselling Guidebook to Rome from 1575 in the Hands of Authors, Publishers, and Readers], Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2025.
Articles
How to track antiquarian book migrations using provenance research methodology – propositions concerning dispersed duplicates from the Załuski Library in Warsaw, in: “Der Antiquariatsbuchhandel in Zentraleuropa. Perspektiven der historischen Forschung”, ed. Johannes Frimmel and Mona Garloff, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2026, pp. 65-80.
The migration of incunabula in 18th-century Europe: six volumes from the collection of Józef Andrzej Załuski (1702–1774), preserved in the Metropolitan Seminary Library in Warsaw, “Quaerendo”, 2024, no 54, pp. 249–269.
“Lepiej byś był w domu siedział…” – analiza śladów lektury z wybranych egzemplarzy “Peregrynacji do Ziemi Świętej” Mikołaja Krzysztofa Radziwiłła „Sierotki” jako przyczynek do badań nad dawną recepcją dzieła [“You should rather have stayed at home…” – about readers’ marks in some copies of “Peregrination to the Holy Land” by Mikołaj Krzysztof ‘The Orphan’ Radziwiłł], “Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo”, 2021, no 11(14), pp. 47-70.
Polskie opisy Rzymu ze zbiorów Gabinetu Starych Druków BUW. Studium proweniencyjne. [Polish descriptions of Rome from Early Printed Books Department of the University of Warsaw Library. Provenance study], “Terminus”, 2020, no 22, pp. 47-70.