Contributors

M. B. B. Biskupski earned a Ph.D. from Yale University and holds the Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish History at Central Connecticut State University. He has published twenty-four books, including Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939–1945 (2010), Independence Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland (2012), and Prezydent Woodrow Wilson a odrodzenie państwa polskiego, 1914–1918 (2023). His distinguished scholarship and professional service have been recognized with the Commander's Cross of the Polish Order of Merit. Currently, an international group of scholars is preparing a Festschrift in his honor.Inga Iwasiów is a professor in the Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, Poland. She is also a writer and a literary critic. Her research and teaching interests focus on literature from the nineteenth century to the present, as well as gender studies and cultural studies. Her books include Rewindykacje: Kobieta czytająca dzisiaj (2002), Gender dla średnio zaawansowanych (2004), Granice: Polityczność prozy i dyskursu kobiet po 1989 roku (2013), and Odmrażanie: Literatura w potrzebie (2020). Her articles have been published in Teksty Drugie, Autobiografia: Literatura—Kultura—Media, and Czas Kultury.Gerard T. Kapolka received his Ph.D. in Polish literature in 1980 from the University of Chicago. He has published three book-length translations, with introductions and notes: The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish Fables by Ignacy Krasicki, and Kordian by Juliusz Słowacki, as well as many shorter works. He has taught Polish, English, and world literatures at a number of institutions, including St. Mary's College at Orchard Lake, Rutgers University, and the Jagiellonian University. He is currently the associate editor of The Polish Review.Maciej Kowalewski is a professor in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Szczecin, Poland. His research and teaching interests are in the field of urban studies. His current research investigates relations between politics and the urban imaginary. His articles have appeared in journals such as City, Geoforum, and Space and Culture.Allen J. Kuharski is a professor emeritus and Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Theater at Swarthmore College. He also teaches in Pig Iron Theater Company's MFA Program in Devised Performance. Kuharski is a widely published authority on Polish theatre and drama, in particular the work of Witold Gombrowicz. In 2017–2018, he was a Fulbright Scholar in theatre studies in the Institute for Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.Łukasz Siciński is a senior lecturer in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington, where he teaches Polish language, culture, and cinema. His research concentrates on the philosophical aspects of literature and film, with a special focus on epistemology and ethics. He is currently working on a project investigating the notion of evil in postwar Polish cinema.Joanna Warońska-Gęsiarz is a professor of Polish literature at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland. She works on twentieth-century Polish drama, theatricality, and performance, as well as the literature and culture of the Częstochowa region. After completing her Ph.D. dissertation on the plays of Bruno Winawer, she began to research twentieth-century Polish comedy. She is the author of Komedia na miarę: Skamandryci w teatrze (2019) and several articles published in scholarly journals and edited volumes. She is now working on a monograph about Winawer's dramas.