Anna Zalewska is a historian and Russian philologist. In the 2025-2026 academic year, she is a postdoctoral fellow in literature and culture at the Davis Center. Anna obtained a doctoral degree in 2025 from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, based on a dissertation entitled, "Demonic Characters in Polish and the East Slavic Wondertale: Categories, Sources, and Functions." Her research interests encompass Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian folktales, Slavic folk demonology, ritual folklore, belief narratives, Jewish folklore in Poland, and, more recently, the stigmatization of infertile and childless women in Polish and East Slavic rural communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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