Olga Tokarczuk

Lidia Wisniewska is Professor and Head of World Literature and Comparative Literary Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is the author of three monographs on Polish and world literature from a comparative perspective and over a hundred book chapters and journal articles. She has edited 18 collections of essays, and coedited four; most recently (with Grazyna Borkowska) a book on Polish literature in international context, Another Canon: The Polish Nineteenth-Century Novel in World Context (2020). She is the vice president of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society, where she is chair of the Comparative and Didactic Committees. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Wiek XIX, responsible for the comparative section.

Jakub Lipski is a university professor and Head of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. He is the author of three monographs and a number of articles and book chapters on eighteenth-century English literature. He has also co-edited a special issue of the journal Comparisons (vol. 25, 2019) on The Robinsonade and Comparative Studies and edited acollection of essays on Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, and Media (2020).