Bożena Shallcross

Bożena Shallcross is a professor of Polish and Polish-Jewish cultural studies in the Slavic Department at the University of Chicago, as well as an essayist, translator, and art critic. She is the author of several monographs, edited volumes, and articles, which explore a variety of concepts related to the once fundamental division between the seeing subject and the objectual sphere in literature, visual arts, and the phenomenal world (Through the Poet’s Eye: The Travels ofZagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky; Northwestern UP, 2002). Recently, she situated surviving objects in the radical setting of WWII in order to establish their precarious ontology and the efforts at their memorialization and restoration (“War and Violence: How to Rescue a Wartime Artifact,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies; Cambridge UP, 2022).