Graduate of cultural studies, art history and musicology, assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Culture. His research focuses on the cultural history of music and modern staging of opera. His Ph.D. thesis was devoted to the relations between opera and madness. In 2012, he published a book about Peter Sellarsʼs operatic work. Recently he has been also developing projects on queer performances, including queer reflection on opera, drag in Poland, as well as Eurovision Song Contest in Central and Eastern Europe.
Participant of the National Science Center team grant project “Cultural History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition” (2017-2020), co-author of the book The Chopin Games. History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 1927-2015 (2021).
In 2011 and 2013 participant of the program “Music Critic 2.0” organized by the Polish Institute of Music and Dance. In the academic year 2014/2015, he spent a semester as a visiting scholar at the Indiana University in Bloomington. In 2016/2017 member of the artistic committee of the 23rd National Competition for Staging Polish Contemporary Drama, award winner of the Andrzej Żurowski competition for young theatre critics (2018).
Member of the Polish Society for Theatre Research, secretary of the Society between 2016 and 2020, International Association for the Study of Popular Music – Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe chapter, and of the Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l’Eurovision.
https://uw.academia.edu/MarcinBogucki