Contributors

Wanda Dzwigala is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal. She has published several articles on Voltaire and his views of Poland, as well as the reception of his works by the Polish reading public. Currently, she is an independent researcher at the University of Toronto, studying the participation of Poles in the French Enlightenment.Bożena Leven graduated from the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw with an MA in economics (specializing in international trade) and received her PhD in economics from Cornell University. Her primary areas of study include international economics and economic development. She has interspersed her academic duties with consulting projects at the Ford Foundation, the United Nations, the William Davidson Institute, the University of Michigan, and the World Bank. Currently, she serves as chair of the Economics Department at the College of New Jersey and the executive director of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America in New York.Michał Schwabe is a professor in the Collegium of World Economy, Department of European Integration and Legal Studies, at the Warsaw School of Economics. He has been a Dekaban-Liddle Fellow at the University of Glasgow and a guest lecturer at HEC Paris (France), KU Leuven (Belgium), and Nottingham Trent University (UK). His primary research areas encompass economic competitiveness, the digital economy, and international labor migration. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications. His research and professional service have been honored with multiple awards. Beyond academia, he has extensive experience in management consulting, having worked with some of the world's leading brands and transnational organizations.Ola Sidorkiewicz is a literary scholar working in the fields of comparative literature and Polish studies. She received a PhD (DPhil) in modern languages from the University of Oxford. She is interested in the relationship between language and national identity and has written on transnationalism and translingualism in the works of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Stefan Themerson, Maria Kuncewicz, and Józef Czapski.Anna Wydrycka is a professor of Polish literature at the University of Białystok. Her main area of research is the literature of the Young Poland movement, especially poetry. She is the author of Między bios a zoe: Poetycka antropologia w liryce Młodej Polski—Interpretacje (2012), “Rządy poezji”: Młodopolska liryka—Studia i interpretacje (2016), and Elzenbergowie: Trzy pokolenia twórców kultury, nauki, historii (2019). She has edited Poezje wybrane (1999) by Bronisława Ostrowska, Poezje (2000) by Marcelina Kulikowska, and Poezje zebrane (2017) by Anna Zahorska, in addition to an anthology entitled Zapomniane głosy: Krytyka literacka kobiet, 1894–1918—Wybór tekstów (2006).Sławomir Jacek Żurek is a professor at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, where he directs the International Center for Research on the History and Cultural Heritage of Central and Eastern European Jews. His research focuses on Polish Jewish literature, Holocaust literature, contemporary Polish literature, and Christian-Jewish dialogue. In 2020–2023, he led an international research project, Twenty-First-Century Comparative Holocaust Literature. He has published numerous articles and several books, including Polish Jewish Re-Remembering: Studies, Sketches, Interpretations (2023).