Aleksandra Kremer is the Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature at Harvard and chair of the university's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her main area of research and teaching is Polish literature and culture, with a special focus on modern poetry. She received her B.A./M.A. degrees in Polish and English from the University of Warsaw, her M.Phil. in European literature and culture from the University of Cambridge, and her Ph.D. in literary studies from the University of Warsaw, where she also worked for three years before moving to Harvard in 2016. She is the author of two books: Przypadki poezji konkretnej. Studia pięciu książek (The Twists and Turns of Concrete Poetry: Case Studies of Five Books), published by the Institute of Literary Research of Polish Academy of Sciences in 2015, and The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry: Performance and Recording After World War II, published by Harvard University Press, which received the ASEEES Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies in 2022. Prof. Kremer is currently working on a third book project, tentatively titled Between the Lines: Early Responses to World War II and the Holocaust in Polish Poetry, revisiting the question of poetry’s response to the Holocaust and reexamining the blurred relation between “war literature” and “Holocaust literature” written in Polish in the 1940s.
Her studies and research have been supported through the Davis Center's John F. Cogan, Jr., Faculty Leave Program and O'Neill Faculty Research Grant, among other sources.
Last updated September 2026.
