Contributors

Robert E. Alvis holds a PhD in church history from the University of Chicago. He serves as a professor of church history at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Saint Meinrad, Indiana. His publications include two monographs—Religion and the Rise of Nationalism: A Profile of an East-Central European City (2005) and White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition (2016). He also edited Prisms of Faith: Perspectives on Religious Education and the Cultivation of Catholic Identity (2016) and A Science of the Saints: Studies in Spiritual Direction (2020). His current research focuses on the global history of the Divine Mercy devotion.Stanley Bill is a professor of Polish studies at the University of Cambridge. He works mainly on twentieth-century Polish literature and contemporary Polish politics. He is the author of Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (2021), coauthor (with Ben Stanley) of Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution (2025), and coeditor of The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature (2022) and Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives (2023). He has published translations of Czesław Miłosz's novel The Mountains of Parnassus (2017) and a selection of short stories by Bruno Schulz entitled Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories (2022). He is the founder and editor-at-large of the news and opinion website Notes from Poland.Anna Krakus is an assistant professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her first book, No End in Sight: Polish Cinema During Late Socialism, came out in 2018. In addition, she has published articles in Diacritics, Law and Literature, The Journal of the History of Collecting, Curator: The Museum Journal, and The Polish Review. In 2020, her article, “Death Is Merely a Comma: Immortality in the Cinema and Literature of Tadeusz Konwicki,” won the Ludwik Krzyżanowski Prize for the best article published in The Polish Review in the preceding year. She is currently finalizing a book manuscript entitled Collecting Stories: Memory, Museums, and Monuments in Poland, concerning Polish memory culture and how the memory of the Holocaust is worked through in various kinds of collections.Ronald D. Landa received a PhD in US diplomatic history in 1971 from Georgetown University. For thirty-nine years he worked as a historian—first with the Department of State, then with the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has taught at College Misericordia and George Washington University. In retirement, he is working on a study of United States policy toward the Polish underground during World War II.Łukasz Wodzyński is an assistant professor of Polish at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He earned his PhD at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, with a dual specialization in Polish and Russian literature. His research interests include Polish and Russian modernism, Polish fiction after 1989, and popular genres. Currently, he works on several projects exploring the concept of adventure in the context of contemporary Polish literature.