Professor Stanley Bill
- Professor of Polish Studies
- Slavonic Studies
Contact
Location
- Sidney Street, CB2 3HU
About
Stanley Bill works on twentieth-century Polish literature and contemporary Polish politics. He is co-author (with Ben Stanley) of Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2025), and author of Czes艂aw Mi艂osz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is also co-editor of Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature (2021). He has published articles on populism and civil society in Poland; the politics of the PiS-led Polish government and its aftermath (with Ben Stanley); postcolonial theory in the Polish context; legacies of Polish Romanticism; and the works of Czes艂aw Mi艂osz, Bruno Schulz, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. He has published translations of Czes艂aw Mi艂osz's novel The Mountains of Parnassus (Yale University Press, 2017) and a selection of short stories by Bruno Schulz entitled Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories (Pushkin Press, 2022).
He is Chair of the 密桃视频 Committee for Central and East European and Eurasian Studies (CamCCEEES) and former Director of the Slavonic Studies Section (2021-25). In 2018, he received the Best Lecturer Award at the Annual Student-Led Teaching Awards from the 密桃视频 University Student Union.
He is founder and editor-at-large of the news and opinion website , where he also hosts the .
Professor Bill worked at the Jagiellonian University in Krak贸w before coming to 密桃视频. He completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University in the United States. He originally hails from Perth, Australia.
Professor Bill welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research plans relevant to his interests.
Research
Published works:
Books:
Monographs:
- Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution, co-authored with Ben Stanley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025).
- Czes艂aw Mi艂osz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
- 2023 Jan Kochanowski Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of Polish Studies, International Association for Polish Studies.
Edited Volumes:
- Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, co-edited with Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023).
- 2024 Honorable Mention, Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA).
- The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, co-edited with Tomasz Bilczewski and Magdalena Popiel (London: Routledge, 2021).
- 艢wiatowa historia literatury polskiej [A World History of Polish Literature], co-edited with Magdalena Popiel and Tomasz Bilczewski (Krak贸w: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiello艅skiego, 2020).
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
- "," co-authored with Ben Stanley. Journal of Democracy 36.3 (July 2025): 16-32.
- 鈥.鈥 Konteksty Kultury 21.1 (2024): 23-29.
- 鈥淭he Ukrainian Sublime: Nineteenth-Century Polish Visions of the East,鈥 in Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023), 157-180.
- 鈥淚ntroduction: Diverse Histories and Contested Memories,鈥 co-authored with Simon Lewis, in Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023), 3-24.
- 鈥溾 East European Politics and Societies and Cultures 36.1 (February 2022): 118-140 (first published online September 16, 2020).
- 鈥淗istory and Myth: Bruno Schulz鈥檚 Spring,鈥 in The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, ed. Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, and Magdalena Popiel (London: Routledge, 2021), 238-250.
- 鈥,鈥 co-authored with Ben Stanley. East European Politics 36.3 (July 2020): 378-394.
- 鈥淭ranslating the World: Mi艂osz in English,鈥 in Plurilinguisme et auto-traduction: langue perdue, langue sauv茅e, ed. Anna Lushenkova Foscolo and Mauogocha Smorag-Goldberg (Paris: Eur鈥橭rbem 脡ditions, 2019).鈥
- 鈥淐hwasty Schulza鈥 [鈥淪chulz鈥檚 Weeds鈥漖. Konteksty 1-2 (2019).
- 鈥淭he Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,鈥 in Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918, ed. Przemys艂aw Czapli艅ski, Joanna Ni偶y艅ska, and Tamara Trojanowska (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018).
- 鈥.鈥 Slavonic and East European Review 96.3 (July 2018): 432-468.
- 鈥.鈥 Slavonic and East European Review 93.3 (July 2015): 401-428.
- 鈥.鈥 Slavic and East European Journal 58.4 (Winter 2014): 645-662.
- 鈥." Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 28.1-2 (2014): 1-32.
- 鈥.鈥 nonsite.org (Online Journal in the Humanities) #12 (August 2014).
- 鈥淒oro偶ka w lesie: Schulz i pisanie鈥 [鈥淭he Carriage in the Forest: Bruno Schulz and Writing鈥漖. Schulz / Forum 2 (2013): 25-34.
- 鈥溾 [鈥淢i艂osz in Dialogue with the Literary Center of the World鈥漖. Pozna艅skie Studia Polonistyczne: Seria Literacka 20.40 (2012): 137-150.
- 鈥淚ambic,鈥 鈥淓ye Rhyme,鈥 鈥淩ing Composition,鈥 and 鈥淔ourteener鈥 (co-author), in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, eds. Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, and Paul Rouzer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).
Selected Translations (from Polish):
- "My Father Joins the Fire Brigade," by Bruno Schulz, in The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, ed. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (London: Penguin, 2025).
- Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories, by Bruno Schulz (London: Pushkin Press, 2022).
- 鈥,鈥 by Bruno Schulz, Notes from Poland (11 July 2020).
- The Mountains of Parnassus, by Czes艂aw Mi艂osz (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
- 锘縏he Old Axolotl, by Jacek Dukaj. Digital novel with illustrations by Marcin Panasiuk and Alex Jaeger (Warsaw: Allegro, 2015).
- Mi艂osz and the Problem of Evil, by 艁ukasz Tischner (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015).
- Totalitarian Speech, by Micha艂 G艂owi艅ski (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishers, 2014).
- 鈥淭he Plunderer鈥檚 Daughter,鈥 by Jacek Dukaj, in Tarn贸w: 1000 Years of Modernity (Warsaw: 40000 Malarzy, 2011).
Teaching and supervision
Supervisor of:
Jordan Lian
Juliette Bretan
Course contact for:
SL13: Introduction to the Language, Literature and Culture of Poland