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Helena Duć-Fajfer, a native Lemko literary scholar, art historian, editor, poet; head of the Department of Russian Literature at the Institute of East Slavonic Philology at Jagiellonian University; founder of Lemko philology at the Pedagogical University in Cracow, where she taught Lemko language, culture and literature; Secretary of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) East European Commission; between 2005-2014 she served as a representative for Lemkos on the Joint Commission of the Government and National and Ethnic Minorities. Her research interests include literature and ethnicity, ethnic minority literature, minority discourses, intercultural relations, the anthropology of literature, and the revitalization of endangered cultures and languages. She is the author of 250 academic publications. In 2005, she founded the Lemko/ Rusyn-language academic journal Ruska Bursa Annual [Ričnyk Ruskoj Bursŷ]concentrating on Lemko/Rusyn studies, and still serves as its editor. She actively promotes the Lemko language and culture throughout the world. She has co-edited publications with translations of Lemko texts into French, English, Italian, and Czech. She is currently publishing her comprehensive English-language monograph Treading Paths. Lemko Literature in the Years 1848-1918 (Brill, V&R unipress [2023]).

Publications (selected):

• Lemko Literature in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth century, Kraków 2001. 

• Między bukwą a literą. Współczesna literatura mniejszości białoruskiej, ukraińskiej i łemkowskiej w Polsce, Kraków 2012. 

• Anthology of Post-Expulsion Lemko literature, Legnica 2002.

• Polish-Lemko-English Conversations, Warszawa 2007.

• Contextual Dictionary of the Lemko Language, Kraków 2019.