McMaster University profile
lustansj@mcmaster.ca
Member
North American Association of Teachers of Polish
Joanna Lustański holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Warsaw. She is a lecturer of Polish in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at McMaster University in Canada and a teacher of Polish at the General Józef Haller Polish School at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto. Her research interests include the language awareness of Poles living abroad, ethnic identification, cultural identity, and the methodology and pedagogy of teaching Polish as a foreign and heritage language. She is the author of the monograph Język polonijny w Kanadzie (Toronto, 2009) and numerous articles in sociolinguistics and glottodidactics, including “Polish Canadians and Polish Immigrants in Canada: Self-Identity and Language Attitude” (The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2009, no. 199) and “Wymiary potocznej świadomości językowej i relacje między nimi” (Socjolingwistyka, 2021, no. 35). She is also a co-author of the chapter on the Polish diaspora and the Polish language in Canada, “The Polish Language and Culture in Canada ‘Scented with Resin’,” in Polish as a Heritage Language around the World, eds. P. Romanowski and A. Seretny (Routledge, United Kingdom, 2024).