Michal Krzyzanowski

Professor i media- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Institutionen för informatik och media

E-post:
michal.krzyzanowski@im.uu.se
Besöksadress:
Ekonomikum (plan 3)
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
Postadress:
Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA

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Biografi

Michał Krzyżanowski holds the Chair Professorship of Media & Communications at Uppsala University, Sweden. He leads Uppsala University Media & Communication Studies concentration and is Deputy Head of UU School/Department of Informatics and Media.

He is one of the leading international experts in the field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) which focuses on how language and mediated communication are used strategically to change social norms and intergroup relations and shape public visions and imaginaries of contemporary society.

Using CDS, Michał's work focuses in particular on how hate speech, anti-immigration rhetoric and far-right populism become normalised in mediated public discourse, in particular online. He is also known for analyzing the misrepresentation and especially criminalization of immigration in the media, journalism and political communication (e.g. in the context of various socio-political 'crises'), and for exploring 'conceptual flipsiding' i.e. subversion of key social/political values and concepts in the context of illiberalism and neoliberalism.

Since 2014, Michał has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Language and Politics in addition to co-editing the Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies book series. He also sits on the editorial boards of such leading journals as Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Society, Language in Society or Social Semiotics.

During his international career, Michał has held a number of academic leadership roles. At Uppsala University, he has been the Deputy Head of School/Department of Informatics and Media (since 2021, on leave 2025-26), Chair of the Managing Board of UHGS - the Uppsala Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (since 2025), or Director of the Uppsala University Research Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR) (2022-25).

Michał has also held a number of prestigious visiting & short-term appointments, including as the 2018-19 Alfred Bonnier Jr. Professor of Journalism Studies at Stockholm University, or as the 2025-26 Professor of Language & Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

Over the years, Michał has taught extensively on digital and traditional media, journalism, linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis and interdisciplinary research methods to students across various disciplines in humanities and the social sciences. His current UU teaching is mainly on DIMS (MA in Digital Media & Society) as well as supervising BA, MA and PhD students.

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