Przemysław Czapliński, full professor, 20th- and 21st-century literature historian, essayist, translator, literary critic, and co-founder of the Literary Anthropology Department of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Research interests: 20thand 21st-century literature history, literary sociology and anthropology, literature of late Holocaust testimonies, oral literature, and 20th-century esthetics. He has written over 10 books; recently published Resztki nowoczesności (2011) and Poruszona mapa. Wyobraźnia geograficzno-kulturowa polskiej literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku (2016); editor and co-editor of numerous collective publications – recently: Zagłada. Współczesne problemy rozumienia i przedstawiania (2009, together with Ewa Domańska), Jaka antropologia literatury jest dzisiaj możliwa
(2010, together with Anna Legeżyńska and Marcin Jaworski), and Poetyka migracji. Doświadczenie granic w polskiej literaturze przełomu XX i XXI wieku (2013, together with Renata Makarska and Marta Tomczok). Together with Łukasz Zaremba he translated James English’s book The Economy of Prestige into Polish – Ekonomia prestiżu (2012).