Notes on Contributors
Giovanna Brogi Ph.D. (1969), University of Florence, is Professor Emerita of the University of Milan (Italy). She has published numerous studies focused on the medieval tradition of the Eastern Slavs, Baroque literature in the Slavic countries and in the European tradition, and on the history of Slavic studies, including a co-authored history of Ukrainian literature (Ukrainische Literaturgeschichte, ed. Ulrich Schmid, 2025).
Maksym Yaremenko Ph.D. (2003), Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv (Ukraine), is Professor of History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He has published monographs and papers on church history, religious culture, and the history of literacy, including Church Feasts and Religious Identity: Ukrainian and Russian Menologia in the Late Eighteenth Century (in Ukrainian, 2023).
Tetiana Kuzyk is a historian and a senior research fellow at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her publications focus on the history of the Zaporožian SiÄ, including co-authoring the edition of six volumes of the archive of the New Zaporožian SiÄ (in Ukrainian, 2000â2024).
Marzanna KuczyÅska Ph.D. (1994), Adam Mickiewicz University, PoznaÅ (Poland), is Professor of Slavic Literature at the Adam Mickiewicz University, PoznaÅ. She has published books and papers about East Slavic literatures, including a monograph on Ruthenian sermons in the 17th century (in Polish, 2004).
Jakub Niedźwiedź Ph.D. (2001), Jagiellonian University (Poland), is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the Jagiellonian University. He has published monographs and papers on the history of literature and cartography, including Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Vilnius (2023) and co-authored The Mapping of a Russian War (2025).
Bartosz B. Awianowicz Ph.D. (2007), Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruÅ (Poland), is Professor of Classical Literature. He has published monographs and papers on the history of literature and numismatics, including bilingual editions of Ciceroâs De oratore (2010) and De inventione (2013).
Grzegorz Franczak Ph.D. (2005), Caâ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), is Professor of Polish Literature at the University of Milan (Italy). His research focuses on early modern literature, cartography, and Holocaust studies. He published, a.o., an edition of a 16th-century account about Ivan IV the Terrible (2016).
Monika Miazek-MÄczyÅska Ph.D. (2017), Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznaÅ (Poland), is a Professor of Classical literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznaÅ and a translator of ancient Latin poetry. Her research focuses on Latin literature and its reception, and on the early modern Jesuit mission in China.