Contributors

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Marek Bernacki is an associate professor in the Department of Polish Philology at the University of Bielsko-Biała. He is the author of Tropienie Miłosza: Hermeneutyczna “bio-grafia” Poety [Quest for Miłosz: A hermeneutical “bio-graphy” of the poet, 2019] and editor of Peryferie Miłosza: Nieznane konteksty, glosy, nowe rozpoznania [Miłosz's peripheries: Unknown contexts, glosses, new explorations, 2020].Tadeusz Bujnicki is a professor emeritus of Polish literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an associate in the Artes Liberales Department at Warsaw University. His research interests focus on the works of Henryk Sienkiewicz and other Polish authors of the Positivist era as well as literature and history of the northeastern borderlands of Poland, Belarus, and Lithuania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of sixteen books and over 300 articles.Jacek Czarnecki is an assistant professor of history at the City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College, where he teaches a wide range of courses in European, American, and Middle Eastern histories. He also serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America. He received his Ph.D. in modern world history from St. John's University in 2014.Piotr Hapanowicz is a historian and a certified curator at the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków. His research focuses on the history of Kraków, Polish parliamentarism, and biography. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications, including Senatorowie województwa krakowskiego w latach 1922–1939 (2007).James S. Pula is a professor emeritus of history at Purdue University. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, was the editor of the scholarly journal Polish American Studies for some thirty-three years, and served as editor-in-chief of the award-winning The Polish American Encyclopedia.Marta Skwara is a professor of Polish and comparative literature at the University of Szczecin and, since 2005, the head of its program in comparative literary studies. In addition, she serves as editor-in-chief of Rocznik Komparatystyczny/Komparatistisches Jahrbuch. Her research interests include comparative literature, particularly reception and translation studies, and intertextuality.