Professor Stanley Bill

Published works: 

Books:

Monographs:

• Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution, co-authored with Ben Stanley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025).
• Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
  • 2023 Jan Kochanowski Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of Polish Studies, International Association for Polish Studies.

Edited Volumes:

• Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, co-edited with Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023).
  • 2024 Honorable Mention, Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA).
• The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, co-edited with Tomasz Bilczewski and Magdalena Popiel (London: Routledge, 2021).
• Światowa historia literatury polskiej [A World History of Polish Literature], co-edited with Magdalena Popiel and Tomasz Bilczewski (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2020).

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

• "Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland," co-authored with Ben Stanley. Journal of Democracy 36.3 (July 2025): 16-32.
• “Polish Studies and the ‘Decolonization’ Paradigm after Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.” Konteksty Kultury 21.1 (2024): 23-29. 
• “The Ukrainian Sublime: Nineteenth-Century Polish Visions of the East,” in Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023), 157-180. 
• “Introduction: Diverse Histories and Contested Memories,” co-authored with Simon Lewis, in Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023), 3-24.
• “Counter-Elite Populism and Civil Society in Poland: PiS's Strategies of Elite Replacement.” East European Politics and Societies and Cultures 36.1 (February 2022): 118-140 (first published online September 16, 2020). 
• “History and Myth: Bruno Schulz’s Spring,” in The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, ed. Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, and Magdalena Popiel (London: Routledge, 2021), 238-250. 
• “Whose Poland Is It To Be? PiS and the Struggle between Monism and Pluralism,” co-authored with Ben Stanley. East European Politics 36.3 (July 2020): 378-394. 
• “Translating the World: Miłosz in English,” in Plurilinguisme et auto-traduction: langue perdue, langue sauvée, ed. Anna Lushenkova Foscolo and Mauogocha Smorag-Goldberg (Paris: Eur’Orbem Éditions, 2019).​
• “Chwasty Schulza” [“Schulz’s Weeds”]. Konteksty 1-2 (2019).
• “The Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,” in Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918, ed. Przemysław Czapliński, Joanna Niżyńska, and Tamara Trojanowska (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018).
• “Propaganda on the Margins: Bruno Schulz’s Soviet Illustrations, 1940-41.” Slavonic and East European Review 96.3 (July 2018): 432-468.
• “Dualism, Dostoevskii and the Devil in History: Czesław Miłosz’s ‘Neo-Manichaean’ Theory of Russian Culture.” Slavonic and East European Review 93.3 (July 2015): 401-428.
• “Melting in the Mirror: Woman, Body and Self in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz.” Slavic and East European Journal 58.4 (Winter 2014): 645-662.
• “Father Zossima’s Body: Decay, Abjection and Resurrection in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov." Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 28.1-2 (2014): 1-32.
• “Seeking the Authentic: Polish Culture and the Nature of Postcolonial Theory.” nonsite.org (Online Journal in the Humanities) #12 (August 2014).
• “Dorożka w lesie: Schulz i pisanie” [“The Carriage in the Forest: Bruno Schulz and Writing”]. Schulz / Forum 2 (2013): 25-34.
• “Miłosz w dialogu z literackim centrum świata” [“Miłosz in Dialogue with the Literary Center of the World”]. Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne: Seria Literacka 20.40 (2012): 137-150.
• “Iambic,” “Eye Rhyme,” “Ring Composition,” and “Fourteener” (co-author), in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, eds. Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, and Paul Rouzer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).

Selected Translations (from Polish):

• "My Father Joins the Fire Brigade," by Bruno Schulz, in The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, ed. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (London: Penguin, 2025).
• Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories, by Bruno Schulz (London: Pushkin Press, 2022).
• “Undula,” by Bruno Schulz, Notes from Poland (11 July 2020).
• The Mountains of Parnassus, by Czesław Miłosz (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
• The Old Axolotl, by Jacek Dukaj. Digital novel with illustrations by Marcin Panasiuk and Alex Jaeger (Warsaw: Allegro, 2015).
• Miłosz and the Problem of Evil, by Łukasz Tischner (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015).
• Totalitarian Speech, by Michał Głowiński (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishers, 2014).
• “The Plunderer’s Daughter,” by Jacek Dukaj, in Tarnów: 1000 Years of Modernity (Warsaw: 40000 Malarzy, 2011).