Contributors

Joanna Rostropowicz Clark received her MA from the University of Warsaw and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Hunter College and Rutgers University, while contributing articles to The Polish Review, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, The Nation, Teksty Drugie, Akcent, and other scholarly and literary journals. She collaborated with Philip Roth during his tenure as editor of the Penguin series “Writers from the Other Europe,” where she recommended the prose of Bruno Schulz for publication and wrote the introduction to Tadeusz Konwicki's The Polish Complex. She is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories, published by Norbertinum in Lublin. In 2025, her many contributions to Polish studies were honored by PIASA with the Suzanne M. Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award.Beata Dorosz holds a PhD from the Institute of Literary Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where she is currently employed. She has published numerous articles and several books on Polish literature and culture in the diaspora, including Nowojorski pasjans: Polski Instytut Naukowy w Ameryce, Jan Lechoń, Kazimierz Wierzyński; Studia o wybranych zagadnieniach działalności, 1939–1969 (2013). In addition, she has edited Lechoń’s and Wierzyński's correspondence with other writers and coedited Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku: Słownik biobibliograficzny (2011). She serves on the editorial board of Archiwum Emigracji in Toruń.Gerard T. Kapolka received his PhD in Polish literature from the University of Chicago in 1981. He has published three book-length translations, with introductions and notes: The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspiański, Kordian by Juliusz Słowacki, and Polish Fables by Ignacy Krasicki, as well as translations of many shorter works. He has taught Polish, English, and world literatures at several institutions, including St. Mary's College at Orchard Lake, Rutgers University, and the Jagiellonian University in Krakόw. He currently serves as associate editor of The Polish Review.Andrzej Karcz is an associate professor at the Institute of Literary Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His books include The Polish Formalist School and Russian Formalism (2002), Teksty z daleka i bliska: Szkice nie tylko o literaturze (2003), and Refleksja nad literaturą w polskim piśmiennictwie emigracyjnym: Tymon Terlecki, Czesław Miłosz, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (2017). He has edited or coedited several volumes on Polish literary studies in North America, as well as the correspondence of Czesław Miłosz and the critical writings of Janusz Sławiński. Professor Karcz holds a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of Chicago.Jadwiga Maurer (ca. 1930–2012) survived the Holocaust partly in Poland, partly in Slovakia. In 1956, she earned a PhD in linguistics from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. In the United States, she had a long and distinguished career as scholar, teacher, and creative writer. Her major books include Liga ocalałych (1970), Podróż na Wybrzeże Dalmacji (1982), and “Z matki obcej...”: Szkice o powiązaniach Mickiewicza ze światem Żydów (1990).Paweł Panas is an assistant professor of literary studies at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. He is the author of Doświadczenia religijne w twórczości Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego (2012), Opisanie świata: Szkice o poezji Marcina Świetlickiego (2014), “Zagubiony wpośród obcych”: Zygmunt Haupt—pisarz, wygnaniec, outsider (2019), and Piętno obcości: Szkice o literaturze emigracyjnej (forthcoming), and the editor of a volume of correspondence by Jerzy Giedroyc and Zygmunt Haupt, Listy, 1947–1975 (2022).Justine M. Pas is a professor of English at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, where she teaches literature and writing courses. Her major research interests are American ethnic literature, literature of the Holocaust, and translation studies. She has published articles in journals as well as edited volumes dedicated to translation theory and practice. Her publications include “Writing American Literature in Polish: Post-Holocaust Jewish Identities in Jadwiga Maurer's Short Stories” (in the Journal of Jewish Identities, 2010), “The Politics of Relay Translation and Language Hierarchies: The Case of Stanisław Lem's Solaris” (in Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts, and Politics, 2017), and the foreword to Hava Ben-Zvi's We Who Lived: Two Teenagers in World War II Poland (2017), a memoir about surviving the Holocaust.Donald E. Pienkos was one of those many Americans who were actively involved in gaining President Bill Clinton's support for the entry of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary into the NATO Alliance. His experience is recounted in his essay, “Witness to History: Polish Americans and the Genesis of NATO Enlargement,” published in The Polish Review, vol. 44, no. 3 (1999): 329–337. He is currently an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.James S. Pula is an emeritus professor of history at Purdue University. The author and editor of more than two dozen books on the Polish diaspora and the American Civil War, as well as dozens of articles, he served as editor-in-chief of The Polish American Encyclopedia and was editor of the academic journal Polish American Studies for some thirty-three years. His work has been honored with the Mieczysław Haiman Award for sustained scholarly contributions to the study of the Poles in America, the Distinguished Service Award from the American Council for Polish Culture, four Oskar Halecki Prizes for various books, the Rudewicz Medal for contributions to the study of Poles in America, the Tadeusz Kościuszko Medal from Polonica Technica, the US Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.