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Stanley Bill, Professor of Polish Studies

Stanley Bill is Professor of Polish Studies and Directorof the Polish Studies Programme. He teaches the Tripos course SL13, “Introduction to the Language, Literature and Culture of Poland”.

Stanley Bill works on twentieth-century Polish literature and contemporary Polish politics. He is the author ofCzesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity(Oxford University Press, 2021), and co-editor ofThe Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature(2021) andMulticultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives(Pittsburgh University Press, 2023).He has published articles on populism andcivil society in Poland; the politics of the PiS-led Polish government(with Ben Stanley);postcolonial theory in the Polish context;legacies of Polish Romanticism;and the works of Czesław Miłosz, Bruno Schulz, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. He has published translations of CzesławMiłosz's novelThe Mountains of Parnassus(Yale University Press, 2017) and a selection of short stories by Bruno Schulz entitledNocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories(London, 2022).

His forthcoming book, co-authored with Ben Stanley, isGood Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution(Stanford University Press, 2025).

Edyta Nowosielska, Lector in Polish

Edyta Nowosielska teaches open courses in Polish language for beginner and intermediate students. Ms Nowosielska’s research interests are in language teaching methodology, particularly exploring new ways of teaching Polish as a foreign language. She has over fifteen years of experience as a Polish language teacher at universities and private language schools in the United Kingdom. She is a contributor to a guide for parents intending to bring up bilingual children,Po Polsku na Wyspach. Poradnikdla rodziców dzieci dwujęzycznych(2015). She is also the co-author of a series of easy readers in Polish in e-book form.

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