Dariusz Skórczewski, Ph.D. Hab., is Assistant Professor of Polish literature at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin where he is also head of cultural anthropology program in the Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Literature. In 2001-2004 and 2006-2007 as a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow he was a visiting professor of Polish Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and University of Illinois at Chicago. He has lectured at Georgetown (USA), Toronto (Canada), Bloomington (USA), Renmin and Beijing University of Foreign Studies (China), Bochum and Köln (Germany), and at numerous academic and cultural institutions in Poland.

Skórczewski’s scholarly interests include postcolonial studies in Polish literature and culture, literary theory, and modern Polish literature and criticism. He has been publishing extensively in these areas in Polish and American journals, among them the leading Polish journals in literary criticism and the humanities: Teksty Drugie/Second Texts, Porównania/Comparisons, Pamiętnik Literacki, and Ethos. His articles have been translated into English, German, Ukrainian, and Hungarian.