Dr. hab. Mateusz Świetlicki, prof. UWr, is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of English Studies (Poland) as well as Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and Extramural Teaching at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. His most recent book, Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), examines the transnational entanglements of Canada and Ukraine. He has recently co-edited Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy: Global and Transnational Perspectives(Brill, 2023 – with Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska and Agata Zarzycka), a special issue of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature titled War and Displacement in Children’s Literature (2023 – with Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang) and special issue of the European Journal of American Studies (Memory, Identity, Belonging: Narratives of Eastern and Central European Presence in North America 2023 – with Izabella Kimak). Świetlicki was a Research Scholar at the University of Florida’s Department of English (Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship), a Fulbright scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2018), a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto (2022), and has held multiple other fellowships (Munich, Kyiv, Harvard). He is the deputy editor-in-chief of Filoteknos, a member of the editorial team of John Benjamins Publishing’s “Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition” series, and a representative of the Childhood & Youth Network of the Social Science History Association.