Notes on Contributors
Olga Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev
is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Romance Philology at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland). Her research interests lie mainly in the problematic of modernism in Romanian culture and literature. Author of the monograph Tożsamość niejednoznaczna. Historyczne, filozoficzne i literackie konteksty twórczości B. Fundoianu/Benjamine’a Fondane’a (1898–1944) [Reconstructing Identity: Historical, Literary and Philosophical Contexts of B. Fundoianu’s / Benjamin Fondane’s works (1898–1944)] (2018).
Renata Beličová
is an Associate Professor and a long-term member of scientific team at the Institute of Literary and Artistic Communication at The University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra (Slovakia), which is the base of so-called Nitra Aesthetics. She specializes in the aesthetics of music, especially the current problems of methodology, with special regard to reception aesthetics as a current alternative of traditional aesthetics of music. Her main publications are Recepcná hudobná estetika. Teória [The Theory of Reception-Aesthetics of Music] (2003), Music in the Culture of the European Middle Ages (2006) and Reception-Aesthetics of Music and its Nomenclature (2008).
Ramunė Bleizgienė
is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vilnius, Lithuania). She has published the monograph Privati tyla, vieši balsai: Moterų tapatybės kaita XIX a. pabaigoje–XX a. pradžioje [Private Silence, Public Voices: Women’s Identity Dynamics in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century] (2012). Her academic interests are the history of women’s writing, literary history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and history of emotions.
Paweł Bukowiec
is a literary scholar, habilitated doctor and Assistant Professor at Katedra Kultury Literackiej Pogranicza [Chair for literary culture of border regions], Department of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). Author of the following monographs: Dwujęzyczne początki nowoczesnej literatury litewskiej [Bilingual Beginnings of Modern Lithuanian Literature] (2008), Metronom: O jednostkowości poezji “nazbyt” rytmicznej [Metronome: On the Singularity of “Too” Rhytmical Poetry] (2015), and Różnice w druku: Studium z dziejów wielojęzycznej kultury literackiej na XIX-wiecznej Litwie [Differences in Print: Study in the History of Multilingual Literary Culture in 19th-century Lithuania] (2017).
Anna R. Burzyńska
is an Adjunct Professor of theater at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland). Her main interests are contemporary European theater, Polish and German drama of 19th–21st century, and the relationship between literature and medicine. Her book publications include Mechanika cudu (2005; about Polish avant-garde drama), The Classics and the Troublemakers. Theatre Directors from Poland (2008), and two books about Stanisław Grochowiak’s work: Maska twarzy (2011) and Małe dramaty (2012).
Judit Dobry
is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of World Literature at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovakia). Her academic interests focus on Hungarian literature in the former Czechoslovakia and Slovakia, literary reception, and translation of Hungarian literature in Slovakia.
Gergely Fórizs
works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Literary Studies in Budapest (Hungary). His main academic interests involve the 19th-century Hungarian literature and the history of aesthetics. His book publications include: Angewandte anthropologische Ästhetik. Konzepte und Praktiken 1700–1900 = Applied Anthropological Aesthetics. Concepts and Practices 1700–1900 (2020), Anthropologische Ästhetik in Mitteleuropa 1750–1850 = Anthropological Aesthetics in Central Europe 1750–1850 (2018) (both co-edited with Piroska Balogh), and “Álpeseken Álpesek emelkednek.” A képzés eszménye Berzsenyi elméleti szövegeiben [“Alps on Alps Arise.” The Idea of “Bildung” in the Theoretical Works of Dániel Berzsenyi] (2009).
Katre Kikas
is a PhD student of Literature and Cultural Research at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and is currently working at the Department of Folkloristics of Estonian Literary Museum as a researcher. Her interest lie on vernacular (grassroots) literacy, nationalism and modernization in the 19th-century Estonia.
Aistė Kučinskienė
is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vilnius, Lithuania) and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University (Lithuania). She has recently published the monograph Kultūrišku keliu: Juozo Tumo-Vaižganto laiškai [In a Cultural Way: Letters of Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas] (2020). Her main academic interests are the history of Lithuanian literature, epistolary theories, and theories of translation.
Helena Markowska-Fulara
works at the Department of Poetics, Literary Theory and Methodology of Literary Studies in the Institute of Polish Literature, Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw (Poland). Her academic interests revolve around literature and literary studies in the periods of Enlightenment and Romanticism. Author of the monograph Odnajdywanie języka dyscypliny Literaturoznawstwo wileńskie i warszawskie 1809–1830 [In Search of the Discipline’s Language. Literary Studies in Vilnius and Warsaw 1809–1830] (2020).
Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn
is a Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland) and cooperates with the Department of Baltic Studies. His most recent academic output includes the following books: Gest pięknoducha. Roman Jaworski i jego estetyka brzydoty [Gesture of the “Schöngeist.” Roman Jaworski and His Aesthetic of Ugliness] (2004), Litwin wśród spadkobierców Króla-Ducha. Twórczość Čiurlionisa wobec Młodej Polski [A Lithuanian among the Heirs of King-Spirit. Čiurlionis’s Works and the Young Poland] (2007), The Year 1894 and Other Essays on the Young Poland (2012), and On the Trail of the Great Bell Brotherhood. Essays on Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century (2018), written together with Małgorzata Okulicz-Kozaryn.
Jurga Sadauskienė
works as a Research Fellow at the Department of Folk Songs at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vilnius, Lithuania). Her main academic interests are Lithuanian folklore and traditional culture of 19th and 20th centuries. She published the monograph Didaktinės lietuvių dainos: Poetinių tradicijų sandūra XIX–XX a. pradžioje [Lithuanian Didactical Songs: Interaction of the Poetic Traditions in the 19th and Beginning of the 20th Century] (2006).
Brigita Speičytė
is a Professor at the Department of Lithuanian literature, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University (Lithuania). She is a researcher of multilingual Lithuanian literature of the 19th century. Author of two monographs: Poetinės kultūros formos: LDK palikimas XIX amžiaus Lietuvos literatūroje [The Poetics of Culture: The Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Literature of the 19th century] (2004) and Anapus ribos: Maironis ir istorinė Lietuva [Beyond the Limit: Maironis and the Old Lithuania] (2012). Editor of the anthology Lietuvos literatūros antologija: Šviečiamasis klasicizmas, preromantizmas, 1795–1831 [The Anthology of Lithuanian Literature: Classicism and Pre-Romanticism 1795–1831, vol. 1–2] (2016).
Viktorija Šeina
is the Head of the Department of Modern Literature at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vilnius, Lithuania). She has published the monograph Laikinoji sostinė lietuvių literatūroje [Temporary Capital in the Lithuanian Literature] (2014), she is also author of many academic publications on the subject of literary canon in Lithuania. Her main research interests include literary canon, nationalism, and literary education.
Vaidas Šeferis
works as an Associate Professor at the Department of General linguistics and Baltic languages at the Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic), where he leads the Baltic studies program. He is also a co-worker at the Department of Textual Studies of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vilnius, Lithuania). His main fields of academic interests are the old Lithuanian literature (Kristijonas Donelaitis) and its contemporary theoretical approaches (interpretative semantics). Author of the monograph Kristijono Donelaičio “Metų” rišlumas [The Cohesiveness of Kristijonas Donelaitis’s The Seasons] (2014).
Jagoda Wierzejska
is an historian of contemporary literature and culture, Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature of the 20th and 21st century at the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw (Poland). She is the principal investigator of the international project “(Multi)national Eastern Galicia in the Interwar Polish Discourse (and in Its Selected Counter-Discourses)” founded by National Science Centre, Poland (2019–2022, no. 2018/31/D/HS2/00356). Her current publications include a collective volume Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses since 1918 (coedited with Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, 2020).
Krystyna Zabawa
is a Professor and the Head of the Literary Studies Department in the Modern Languages Institute at Jesuit University in Kraków (Poland) where she teaches English literature and children’s literature. Her fields of interests include literature of the turn of the 19th century and early 20th century, especially poetry, female writers, children’s and YA literature. Her first monograph (1999) discussed Polish poems in prose in Młoda Polska period (1890–1918). In 2013 she published the monograph entitled Rozpoczęta opowieść. Polska literatura dziecięca po 1989 roku [A Tale Begun. Polish Children’s Literature after 1989 with regard to Contemporary Culture] and in 2017 – Literatura dziecięca w kontekstach edukacyjnych [Children’s Literature in Education].