JU Faculty of Polish Studies researchers Prof. Magdalena Popiel and Prof. Tomasz Bilczewski, in collaboration with Prof. Stanley Bill from the University of Cambridge, have written a new comprehensive book on Polish literature, which was recently published as part of the Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature series. The book features an afterword renowned historian Norman Davies and an essay by Booker Prize winner Jennifer Croft.
On 15 October, the book was debated on during a meeting attended by Prof. Norman Davies (University of Oxford), Prof. Tomas Venclova (Yale University), Prof. Luigi Marinelli (La Sapienza – Universitá di Roma) and Michał Paweł Markowski (University of Illinoi at Chicago, Jagiellonian University.
The meeting also featured representatives of 30 institutions that carry out research in Polish studies, including: Emiliano Ranocchi (Udine), Andrea Ceccherelli (Bolognaa), Charles Zaremba (Marseille), Luigi Marinelli (Rome), Bożena Shallcross (Chicago), Rolf Fieguth (Freiburg), François Rosset (Lausanne), Kris Van Heuckelom (Leuven), Brigita Speičytė (Vilnius), Henryk Siewierski (Brasília), Michał Mrugalski (Berlin), Tokimasa Sekiguchi (Tokyo), Monika Woźniak (Rome), Jens Herlth (Freiburg), Katia Vandenborre (Brussels), Ariko Kato (Nagoya), Michał Paweł Markowski (Chicago), Ursula Phillips (London), Stanley Bill (Cambridge), Bożena Karwowska (Vancouver), Maria Delaperrière (Paris), Knut Andreas Grimstad (Oslo), Tomas Venclova (New Haven), Leonard Neuger (Stockholm), Wiktor Jaźniewicz (Minsk), Joanna Niżyńska (Bloomington), Tamara Trojanowska (Toronto), Arent van Nieukerken (Amsterdam), Giovanna Tomassucci (Pisa), Irina Adelgejm (Moscow), Wu Lan (Beijing), Clare Cavanagh (Evanston).
