Prof. Anastasia Ulanowicz’s research is primarily focused on the representation of intergenerational relationships and memory in children’s literature and graphic narratives. Her first book, Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images (Routledge, 2013), received the Children’s Literature Association Book Award in 2015. She is also the co-editor (with Manisha Basu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) of The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger (Palgrave, 2018) and Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature (with Mateusz Świetlicki – Routledge, 2025). Ulanowicz is in the process of completing her second monograph, entitled Through Western Eyes: Representations of Eastern Europe in Western Comics, 1989-2022. This project argues that the form of comics has played a particularly significant role in both reaffirming and contesting contemporary Western images of Eastern (and Central) Europe – not only because it uniquely draws on the affective combination of words and images, but also because its popular appeal involves its transmission through such various genres as memoirs, journalistic reportage, travel narratives, fantasy, and superhero narratives that allegorize global cultural tensions. 

Prof. dr hab. Janusz Pasterski is a Polish literary scholar and professor of humanities who specializes in the history of Polish literature of the 20th century. He works at the University of Rzeszów’s Institute of Polish Studies and Journalism, where he serves as director of the Department of Polish Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries. He is the Vice-Rector for the College of Humanities at the University of Rzeszów. His research interests include Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, emigration literature, Polish poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries, essay writing, literary tradition, and criticism.