Stanley Bill, Professor of Polish Studies
Stanley Bill is Professor of Polish Studies and Director听of the Polish Studies Programme. He teaches the Tripos course SL13, 鈥淚ntroduction to the Language, Literature and Culture of Poland鈥�.
Stanley Bill works on twentieth-century Polish literature and contemporary Polish politics. He is the author of听Czes艂aw Mi艂osz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity听(Oxford University Press, 2021), and co-editor of听The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature听(2021) and听Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives听(Pittsburgh University Press, 2023).听He has published articles on populism and听civil society in Poland; the politics of the PiS-led Polish government听(with Ben Stanley);听postcolonial theory in the Polish context;听legacies of Polish Romanticism;听and the works of Czes艂aw Mi艂osz, Bruno Schulz, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. He has published translations of Czes艂aw听Mi艂osz's novel听The Mountains of Parnassus听(Yale University Press, 2017) and a selection of short stories by Bruno Schulz entitled听Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories听(London, 2022).
His forthcoming book, co-authored with Ben Stanley, is听Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution听(Stanford University Press, 2025).
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Edyta Nowosielska, Lector in Polish
Edyta Nowosielska teaches open courses in Polish language for beginner and intermediate students. Ms Nowosielska鈥檚 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,听Po Polsku na Wyspach. Poradnik听dla rodzic贸w dzieci dwuj臋zycznych听(2015). She is also the co-author of a series of easy readers in Polish in e-book form.听
