she/her, they/themMagdalena Olszanowski
Magdalena Olszanowski is an award-winning writer, artist, and educator in Montreal. She received her PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University where she is now part time faculty. She also teaches at Dawson College. An exhibiting new media and video artist as well as a writer, she has written for
CBC, esse, Feminist Media Studies, Visual Communication Quarterly, n+1, nomorepotlucks, and showcased her work at
SXSW and
ISEA among others. The first phase of her documentary,
microfemininewarfare, has been featured at international art festivals. She was
CBC’s Featured Columnist for 2022. Currently, she is working on a monograph on feminist internet history, as well as a bildungsroman about a video artist set in 1970/80s Poland. She was born in Warsaw, Poland and now lives in Montreal, Canada with her partner, two children, and neighbourhood cats.