Tools of Their Tools

Krzysztof Majer is involved both in American and Canadian studies. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Łódź; the title of his thesis is The Picaro Messiah and the Unworthy Scribe: A Pattern of Obsession in Mordecai Richler’s Later Novels. His academic interests include North American Jewish writing and post-war fiction. He has published articles on Mordecai Richler, Mark Anthony Jarman and John Barth. He is a member of BACS (British Association for Canadian Studies), PACS (Polish Association for Canadian Studies) and PAAS (Polish Association for American Studies). He is currently employed at Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland.

Grzegorz Kość holds a doctorate in humanities and teaches American literature and culture at the English Institute of the University of Łódź and at the American Studies Center of Warsaw University. He is interested in twentieth-century American poetry, public poetry in particular, political philosophy and photography. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005). Presently he is working on a book on Robert Frost as a national poet.