Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands (PDF)

Ewa Keblowska-Lawniczak is Full Professor of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, where she teaches English literature and cultural and adaptation studies. Much of her research has focused on visuality and the nexus of space and literature. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Controversy Over Baroque (Wroclaw UP); Visual Seen and Unseen: Insights into Tom Stoppard's Art (Wroclaw U P); and From Concept-City to City Experience (Atut 2013). She co-edited several collections of essays including the latest (with Eva C. Karpinski), Adaptation and Beyond: Hybrid Transtextualities (Routledge 2023), she guest co-edited for the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and has been editor-in-chief of Anglica Wratislaviensia (Poland) since 2013.

Dominika Ferens is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Much of her research has focused on affect, race, gender, and sexuality in American literature. In Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances (2002), she examined the paradoxes of Orientalism in the writings of two sisters of Chinese-English-Canadian descent. Her book Ways of Knowing Small Places: Intersections of American Literature and Ethnography since the 1960s (2011) looked at literature's quarrels and affinities with ethnography. Since 2006, she has co-edited the open-access InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies.

Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice is an associate professor of American literature and culture at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, where she teaches American literature. She is the author of California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels: Exiled from Eden (2019; paperback edition 2020) and Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity and the Maternal (2007). She co-edited three volumes, Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders: On the Edge (2022), A Dark California: Essays on