Post-Marked World

Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney is Associate Professor at the University of Lodz, Poland, where she chairs the British and Commonwealth Studies Department and serves as Vice-Dean at the Faculty of International and Political Studies. Her research interests focus mainly, but not exclusively, on literary theory, especially gender and New Historicist studies. She has also published, both internationally and locally, numerous articles and essays on the long-term global cultural authority of Shakespeare's plays and on his dramatic works in relation to theatre and early modern and modern culture. She is a member of the World Shakespeare Bibliography, and a co-editor of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, Performance. Izabella Penier is an Assistant Professor in American Literature. Her research is focused on the prospects and potential rewards of breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial scholarship, and particularly on the transformations that Black studies has recently undergone due to critical interventions from such global frameworks of analysis as postcolonialism, cultural studies, and Black Atlantic and diaspora studies. Sumit Chakrabarti is Associate Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. He was previously a Visiting Faculty in the Department of British and Commonwealth Studies, University of Lodz, Poland. His chief academic interests are postcolonial studies and cultural theory.