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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 The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature听(2021) and Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives听(University of Pittsburgh 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 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).听
He is Director of the Slavonic Studies Section and former Chair of the听海角社区 Committee for Central and East European and Eurasian Studies听(CamCCEEES) (2019-23). In 2018, he received听the Best Lecturer Award at the Annual Student-Led Teaching Awards from the 海角社区 University Student Union.
He is founder and editor-at-large听of the news and opinion website , where he also hosts the .听
Professor Bill worked at the Jagiellonian University in Krak贸w before coming to 海角社区. He completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University in the United States. He originally hails from Perth, Australia.
Professor Bill听welcomes inquiries from potential听MPhil听and PhD students听with research plans听relevant to听his听interests.
Books:
Monographs:
- Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution, co-authored with Ben Stanley听(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025). [Forthcoming]听
- Czes艂aw Mi艂osz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity听(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
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2023 Jan Kochanowski Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of Polish Studies, International Association for Polish Studies.
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Edited Volumes:
- Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, co-edited with Simon Lewis听(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023).
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2024 Honorable Mention, Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA).
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- The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, co-edited with Tomasz听Bilczewski听and Magdalena听Popiel听(London: Routledge, 2021).
- 艢飞颈补迟辞飞补听丑颈蝉迟辞谤颈补听濒颈迟别谤补迟耻谤测听辫辞濒蝉办颈别箩听 [A World History of Polish Literature], co-edited with Magdalena听Popiel听and听Tomasz听Bilczewski (Krak贸w:听Wydawnictwo听Uniwersytetu听Jagiello艅skiego, 2020).
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
- "Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland,"听co-authored with Ben Stanley.听Journal of Democracy听36.3 (July 2025).
- 鈥淧olish Studies and the 鈥楧ecolonization鈥� Paradigm after Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.鈥澨�Konteksty Kultury听21.1 (2024): 23-29.听
- 鈥淭he Ukrainian Sublime: Nineteenth-Century Polish Visions of the East,鈥� in听Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023), 157-180.听
- 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).听
- 鈥淗istory and Myth: Bruno Schulz鈥檚 Spring,鈥� in听The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, ed. Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, and Magdalena Popiel (London: Routledge, 2021), 238-250.听
- 鈥�,鈥� co-authored with Ben Stanley.听East European Politics 36.3 (July 2020): 378-394.听
- 鈥淭ranslating the World: Mi艂osz in English,鈥� in听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�). Konteksty听1-2 (2019).
- 鈥淭he Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,鈥� in听Being Poland:听A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918,听ed.听Przemys艂aw听Czapli艅ski, Joanna听Ni偶y艅ska, and Tamara听Trojanowska听(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�). Schulz / Forum 2 (2013): 25-34.
- 鈥溾�� (鈥淢i艂osz in Dialogue with the Literary Center of the World鈥�). Pozna艅skie Studia Polonistyczne: Seria Literacka (Pozna艅 Polish Studies: Literary Series) 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听The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, eds. Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, and Paul Rouzer听(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).
Selected Translations (from Polish):
- "My Father Joins the Fire Brigade," by Bruno Schulz, in听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�,鈥澨齜y Bruno Schulz,听Notes from Poland听(11 July 2020).
- The Mountains of Parnassus, by Czes艂aw Mi艂osz听(New Haven:听Yale University Press, 2017).
- 锘縏he Old Axolotl, by Jacek Dukaj. Digital novel听with illustrations by Marcin Panasiuk and Alex Jaeger听(Warsaw: Allegro, 2015).
- Mi艂osz and the Problem of Evil, by 艁ukasz Tischner听(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015).
- Totalitarian Speech, by Micha艂 G艂owi艅ski听(Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishers, 2014).
- 鈥淭he Plunderer鈥檚 Daughter,鈥� by Jacek Dukaj. Tarn贸w: 1000 Years of Modernity听(Warsaw: 40000 Malarzy, 2011).
