Dariusz Skórczewski is Associate Professor of Polish literature in the Institute of Polish Philology and Vice-Dean of the Humanities for Research and International Cooperation at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In 2001—2004 and 2006—2007 as a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow he was Visiting Professor of Polish Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and University of Illinois at Chicago. His scholarly interests include theory and anthropology of literature, history of literary criticism in Poland in the 20th and 21st century, and postcolonial studies in Polish literature and culture, especially in relation to Polish historical experience and identity. He has published extensively on these topics in Polish and American journals, among them Teksty Drugie/Second Texts, Porównania/Comparisons, Pamiętnik Literacki/Literary Memoir, The Sarmatian Review, Ethos, and Znak. He has authored three books, among them the most recent Theory–Literature–Discourse. A Postcolonial Landscape (2013, in Polish) and co-edited two books: Melancholia: The Disease of the Soul (with A. Wierciński, 2014) and The Task of Interpretation: Hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Studies (with A. Wierciński and E. Fiała, 2009). His articles have been translated into English, German, Ukrainian, and Hungarian. He is on the editorial board of The Sarmatian Review, Postcolonial Europe, and Roczniki Humanistyczne/Annales de Lettres et Sciences Humaines.