Contributors

John J. Bukowczyk, professor emeritus of history at Wayne State University in Detroit, is the author of A History of the Polish Americans (1987) and a reprint edition with new introduction (Transaction, 2008). A specialist in US immigration and ethnic history, Bukowczyk also is editor of the Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series. Email: [email protected] Dapía is professor of Latin American literature and culture at John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Die Rezeption der Sprachkritik Fritz Mauthners im Werk von Jorge Luis Borges (Böhlau, 1993); Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation (Routledge, 2015); and editor of Gombrowicz in Transnational Context: Translation, Affect, and Politics (Routledge, 2019), recognized with the Anna M. Cienciala Award for best edited book in Polish studies. Her current research project examines the work of the Argentinean philosopher León Rozitchner, particularly his reflections on community, body, and affect, especially ressentiment, sympathy, and terror. Email: [email protected] J. Jackson is professor of political science at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His major research interest is the interactive relationship between politics and culture. He is the author of Entertainment and Politics: The Influence of Pop Culture on Young Adult Political Socialization, 2nd rev. ed. (Peter Lang, 2009), as well as scholarly articles in such journals as Political Research Quarterly, Polish American Studies, International Journal of Press/Politics, and Journal of Political Marketing. In 2007–2008 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Łódź. His book Classrooms and Barrooms: An American in Poland was published in 2009. Email: [email protected] Kimak is an assistant professor in the Department of British and American Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her research interests encompass contemporary American literature, with particular emphasis on race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of Bicultural Bodies: A Study of South Asian American Women's Literature and numerous scholarly articles as well as a co-editor of several volumes and special issues on contemporary American literature and culture. She is the secretary general of the European Association for American Studies; the elected representative of the Polish Association for American Studies to the EAAS; a Kosciuszko Foundation fellow; and a recipient of the Polish National Science Center research grant for the project “Sweet Home Chicago: The Windy City and American Writers of Polish Descent.” Email: [email protected] Podciborska is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Gdańsk specializing in modern political history, with a focus on public diplomacy and political communication during the Cold War. She was a Cold War Archives Research Institute (CWAR) fellow at the Wilson Center in 2022–2023 and is the director of a research project examining US cultural diplomacy efforts in Poland that is funded by the Polish National Science Center. She is passionate about bridging historical research with contemporary discussions of global diplomacy and soft power.. Email: [email protected] Skurski is a PhD student in history at the University of Gdańsk in Poland. His doctoral dissertation focuses on intellectual history of postwar Japan, especially during the 1950s, and is supervised by Anna Mazurkiewicz. In recent months he conducted research at Sophia University's Institute of Comparative Studies in Tokyo. Email: [email protected]