CONTRIBUTORS

RIMMA GARN. Currently Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Doctor Garn earned her degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, At the Cradle of the Modern Russian Novel: The Case of M.D. Chulkov, examines the work of a writer who helped shape modern Russian literature. Her interests include narrative in cinema and fiction, the impact of European novels on 18^th century Russian literature, and the interplay between Russian and Western literature.

SHERMAN W. GARNETT is Dean of James Madison College, an undergraduate liberal arts college of public affairs at Michigan State University. He is currently working on a book on Czesław Miłosz’s Gdzie wschodzi słońce i kędy zapada [Where the Sun Rises and Where It Sets].

GRAŻYNA J. KOZACZKA has a doctorate in American literature from the Jagiellonian University. Her dissertation on the American Dream in the texts of William Dean Howells and John Cheever was published by Universitas, Kraków (1993). Among her research interests are ethnic literatures, women’s and popular literatures, as well as composition and rhetoric. Professor Kozaczka is with the English Department at Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York, and Director of its Honors Program. She is currently a Visiting Professor of American Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, England.

MAREK PAYERHIN is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia. His research interests are in social movements and grass roots activism, terrorism, globalization, and environmental policy with regional specializations in Europe and the Americas. Professor Payerhin has run several computer-assisted foreign policy simulations and has conducted student groups to south- and southeast Asia and Arctic Circle Alaska. His most recent publications include a co-authored article on framing social theory and social mobilization in Social Movement Studies as well as a chapter on environmental activism in Democratization, Europeanization and Globalization Trends (Peter Lang, 2005). His doctorate is from the University of Connecticut.

RYSZARD ZAJĄCZKOWSKI. Holder of a doctorate in Polish philology and theoretical philosophy from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Ryszard Zajączkowski is a lecturer in the University’s Department of Literary Theory. He has received scholarships and grants from the Kosciuszko Foundation (for research on Andrzej Wat at Yale University) and the Krupp Foundation of Eichstätt University. Dr. Zajączkowski’s main fields of interest include Polish Romantic and 20^th century literature (especially the works of Adam Mickiewicz, Cyprian Norwid, Roman Brandstaetter and Andrzej Wat), the anthropology and theology of literature, and the literary sacrum. He is author of Głos prawdy i sumienia. Kościół w pismach Cypriana Norwida [The Voice of Truth and Conscience. The Church in the Writings of Cyprian Norwid].

NOTE:  Joseph. W. Wieczerzak, editor of the LII.04 issue, wishes to express his deep regret and apologies to the Authors and the Readers of The Polish Review for the omission of the contributors page in the print version of the quarterly.  The omission was an unintentional mistake that occurred during the printing process.