Marcin Kepinski graduated in sociology of culture from the University of Lodz, works as the Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Lodz and Head of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Critical Heritage Studies at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Lodz. Author of the books: Myth, Symbol, History, Tradition. Gombrowicz's Games with Culture (2006), Journey in Darkness. Cultural Images of War (2012), Between Autobiographical and Collective Memory. People's Poland and Martial Law in the Narrations of Lodz Teachers (2016), Darren Aronofsky's Transcendent Cinema. Film, Sacrum and Myth (2023).
Publishes in Kultura i Spoleczenstwo, Kultura i Historii, Etnografia Polska, Kultura i Wychowanie, Zeszyty Wiejskie, Ethos and other journals. Research areas in the field of symbolic anthropology, social and cultural impact of media, polemology, anthropology of literature, anthropology of film and memory of the People's Republic of Poland and martial law.