Editorial

Jadwiga Maszewska has been the head of the Department of American Literature at the University of Łódź since 2010. At the centre of her academic interests is contemporary American ethnic literature. In 1994–95 she held the fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies with affiliation at Harvard University, and in 2004 she spent a semester at the University of Texas at El Paso on Fulbright Fellowship. She is the author of Between Center and Margin: Contemporary Native American Women Writers, Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich. Maszewska has also published several articles on Black and Chicana/o writers, as well as on writers of the American South. Her article on Ellen Glasgow’s short stories is scheduled to appear in a post-conference volume of the 2013 Southern Studies Forum, Performing South: The U.S. South as Medium/Message. Presently her research is connected with Mexican American and Chicana/o writers: Olga Beatriz Torres, Helena Viramontes and Daniel Chacon.