Andrzej Bobkowski—Józef Czapski: An Attempt at Comparison

Maciej Urbanowski is a professor in the Department of Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. A scholar specializing in contemporary literary criticism, he has published numerous studies of modern Polish literature. His major books include Nacjonalistyczna krytyka literacka: Próba opisu i rekonstrukcji nurtu w II Rzeczpopolistej Polskiej (1997), Człowiek z głębszego podziemia: Życie i twórczość Jana Emila Skiwskiego (2003), Szczęście pod wulkanem: O Andrzeju Bobkowskim (2013), Brzozowski: Nowoczesność (2017), and Rok 1920 w literaturze polskiej: Zarys monograficzny (2020).

Joanna Rostropowicz Clark received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania and taught at Hunter College and Rutgers University while contributing articles to scholarly journals such as Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, The Polish Review, Teksty Drugie, and Akcent. One of her best-known articles, “Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero,” appeared in Polin in 2000. She collaborated with Philip Roth during his tenure as the editor of Penguin's series “Writers from the Other Europe.” She is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories, published by Norbertinum in Lublin (Poland) between 2010 and 2017.