Tamara Trojanowska graduated in Theatre Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland (M.A.) and the Graduate Centre for the  Study of Drama at the University of Toronto (Ph.D.); directed the Polish Language and Literature Program at the University of Chicago (1995-98) and has been directing a similar program at the University of Toronto since 1998; teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Polish literature, culture, and theory of theatre and has supervised doctorates in all three fields; taught theatre and drama courses in Theatre Departments at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) and York University (Toronto), in the English Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, and in the College at the University of Chicago; is now a Director of the University College Drama Program at the University of Toronto; her research focuses on discourses of modernity with particular interest in the issues of identity; has published on these subjects in Poland, Canada, United States, and England; recently co-edited a book "Polonistyka po amerykansku"; at present is involved in three research projects, one of which is on the recent playwriting in Poland.