Dorota Kołodziejczyk is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. She is Chair of Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre. Academic Research Centre,  director of the Postcolonial Studies Centre and board member of the Postdependence Studies Centre, an inter-university research network. She has published on postcolonialism, comparative literature and translation studies. Her recent publications include East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century (co-edited with Siegfried Huigen), Palgrave 2023;  guest-editing of the European Review (with Siegfried Huigen): Cultural Landscapes in Central and Eastern Europe After WW2 and the Collapse of Communism (2022) and New Nationalisms: Sources, Agendas, Languages (2021); “Through the Iron Curtain: The Geopolitics of Writing (with Mirja Lecke), in: The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature (2020); Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge 2016, 2018), (co-edited with Cristina Sandru),and numerous articles. Board member of the Palgrave Macmillan “New Comparisons in World Literature.”