A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Intellectual and Cultural History, she has written historical books on modern Europe (particularly intellectual history and literature), including The Scar of Revolution (1991), Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (2009), and Golden Harvest (2011), the latter of which she co-wrote with her ex-husband Jan T. Gross.

[2] After entering the University of Warsaw in 1964,[3] she spent some time in the Commandos dissident circle,[4] and she was expelled from the Związek Młodzieży Socjalistycznej [pl] in 1967.

[7][3] She later moved to Columbia University, where she obtained her MA in 1975, MPhil in 1977, and PhD in 1982;[8] her doctoral dissertation is titled Journey Through Bookland: The Travel Memoir in the Nineteenth Century.

[15] She was editor of Peter Lang's Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies series,[16] and she also edited two of Adam Michnik's books, In Search of Lost Meaning (2011) and Trouble with History (2014).

[8] Grudzińska-Gross's book, Golden Harvest (2011), co-written with her ex-husband, Jan T. Gross, is about Poles enriching themselves at the expense of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.