Georgetown University profile
ibs3@georgetown.edu
Member
North American Association of Teachers of Polish
Dr. Iwona Sadowska is head of the Polish program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where she teaches Polish and Russian language, Slavic literatures, and film studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and with the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) in the School of Foreign Service. She is the author of Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar, published by Routledge. A newly revised and expanded second edition of Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar is under contract with Routledge to be published in 2026.
Sadowska holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin. Her fields of research include higher education studies, critical pedagogy, and film studies. Prof. Sadowska has previously worked on linguistics projects with the University of Maryland, College Park. She has lived, worked, and traveled in over 50 countries and traversed Eurasia overland from the Pacific to the Atlantic via Central Asia and the Caucasus.