Michal Krzyzanowski

Professor Michał Krzyżanowski is the Chair in Media & Communications at Uppsala University, where he is also Deputy Head of School of Informatics & Media and Director of Research at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies of Racism. He is known internationally for his interdisciplinary work on critical discourse studies of communication, media and social change with special focus on discourses of crisis, inequality, discrimination and exclusion. For more info, see Google Scholar & bio below.

Professor Michał Krzyżanowski holds the Chair in Media & Communications at Uppsala University, where he is Deputy Head of the School of Informatics & Media as well as Director of Research of the UU Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies of Racism. He is known internationally for interdisciplinary work on critical discourse studies of communication, media and social change with special focus on discourses of crisis, inequality, discrimination and exclusion.

Following his earlier appointments at the Universities of Lancaster and Aberdeen in the UK as well as at the University of Vienna, Austria, he moved to Uppsala in 2020 after holding a number of academic leadership positions as, inter alia, Head of Department, Chair in Communication and Media as well as funding Director of the Research Centre ‘Discourse & Society’ (now 'Discourse, Data & Society') at the University of Liverpool, UK, or as Chair and Head of Subject in Media in Communications as well as Head of the Research Group ‘Discourse, Communication & Media (DCM)’ at Örebro University, Sweden. He previously also held several prestigious visiting and research appointments: as Alfred Bonnier Jr. Guest Professor in Journalism and Mass Communication at Stockholm University, Sweden, or as a Research Chair in Communications and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Michał is one of the leading international scholars working on critical discourse studies of communication, media and social change with special focus on discourses, politics and practices of discrimination, exclusion and social inequality and their recontextualization and normalisation in/via media and the public sphere. His research focuses on political discourse, digital & traditional media and journalism as well as on policy and organisation communication. As a renown expert in qualitative and mixed-method research, Michał works on methodological combinations of critical discourse studies with, inter alia, conceptual analysis, corpus linguistics or ethnography and their application in linguistics, communication analysis and wider social and political research.

For over a decade, Michał has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Language and Politics which under his leadership has become one of the key international, interdisciplinary and critical fora for analysing discourse and communication in the processes of contemporary social and political change. He is also a co-editor of the book series Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies and sits on a number of editorial boards including of Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Society, Language in Society or Social Semiotics high impact journals, or DATA Browser book series.

For publications and projects see Google Scholar & below.

(Key) Recent Projects at Uppsala University:

• Immigration and the Normalisation of Racism: Discursive Shifts in Swedish Politics and Media 2010-22 (Swedish Research Council, 2020-23

• Interactive Racism in Swedish Online Media, Press and Politics: Discourses on Immigration and Refugees at Times of Crisis (Swedish Research Council, 2016-20)

(Some) Research-Based Lectures, Interviews and Presentations available Online:

• Democracy, Media, and Inter-Generational Transmissions - Focus on Poland (Video of Opening Address During Debate on Generations - Annual Meeting of Concilium Civitas, Warsaw, 21 July 2023 - Moderator: Red. Agnieszka Lichnerowicz)
• Unpacking the Logics of Illiberalism by Analysing Discursive Shifts (Video of Guest Lecture at the 'Illiberalism Studies Programme' of George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, 26 April 2023 - Moderator: Prof. Marlene Laruelle)
• What Next for Media Freedom in Poland? (Co dalej z wolnością mediów w Polsce?) (Podcast of Interview for TOK FM Radio, Warsaw, 12 February 2021 - Moderator: Red. Jacek Żakowski)
• Combating Discriminatory Discourse - Perspective from Media, Communication and Critical Discourse Studies (Video of Keynote at International Symposium 'Combating Discriminatory Discourse' organised by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Hrant Dink Foundation & Istanbul Bilgi University, 10 November 2015)
• Ethnography and Critical Discourse Analysis (Video of Keynote at the CADAAD - Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference 2012, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 05 July 2012)