精东影视

Core Group

Scientific Council

• Mateusz 艢wietlicki

  • the Institute of English Studies, University of Wroc艂aw, Poland
  • He is an Associate Professor at the University of Wroc艂aw鈥檚 Institute of English Studies, Director of the Center for Young People鈥檚 Literature and Culture, as well as Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and Extramural Studies at the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. His most recent book, Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children鈥檚 Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), examines the transnational entanglements of Canada and Ukraine. He has recently co-edited Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children鈥檚 Literature (with Anastasia Ulanowicz 鈥� Routledge 2025) and Navigating Children鈥檚 Literature through Controversy: Global and Transnational Perspectives (with El偶bieta Jamr贸z-Stolarska and Agata Zarzycka 鈥� Brill, 2023), a special issue of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children鈥檚 Literature titled War and Displacement in Children's Literature (2023 - with Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang) and a special issue of the European Journal of American Studies (Memory, Identity, Belonging: Narratives of Eastern and Central European Presence in North America 2023 鈥� with Izabella Kimak). 艢wietlicki was a Research Scholar at the University of Florida鈥檚 Department of English (Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship), a Fulbright scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2018), a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto (2022), and has held multiple other fellowships (Munich, Kyiv, Harvard). He is the deputy editor-in-chief of Filoteknos, a member of the editorial team of John Benjamins Publishing鈥檚 鈥淐hildren鈥檚 Literature, Culture, and Cognition鈥� series, and a co-officer of the Childhood in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Russia Working Group of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

• Stefanie Lemke

  • Dr. Stefanie Lemke is a socio-legal scholar and a lawyer by training, focussing on access to justice, victims rights and civic space. She has worked globally and across sectors  with governments, leading research groups, prominent NGOs, commercial law firms and international organisations such as the University of Oxford and the United Nations Development Programme in Europe and Central Asia. She trained as a civil judge, a public prosecutor and a human rights lawyer in Germany, and completed a PhD on legal empowerment at Oxford, London and Cologne Universities. Currently, she is Director of the Rule of Initiative, Senior Scientific Officer with the International Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Secondary Proposer for a EU funded project on cultural rights at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and Associate Fellow with Leeds University Legal Profession Research Group.

• Ji艡ina 艩mejkalov谩

  • the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • Her teaching and research interests focus on cultural production and reception under totalitarian regimes, as well as related gender issues. She has held academic positions in the USA and the UK (Durham, Lincoln) and was promoted to Reader in Media and Cultural Studies in 2007. Her key works include Cold War Books in the 鈥極ther鈥� Europe and What Came After (Leiden, Brill, 2010).

Academic Board

• Micha艂 Rogo偶

• Alina Popescu

  • She studied Sociology in Romania and France and holds a PhD in Political Science from the Paris Ouest Nanterre University. Her areas of interest include censorship in cinema, cultural exchanges during the Cold War, and she is currently working on fashion in communist Romania.

Secretary

• Katarzyna Smyczek

  • She is an Initiating Editor at 精东影视 University Press and holds a PhD in literary studies from the University of 精东影视. She taught seminars in 'Academic Publishing and Publication Ethics' at the University of Humanities and Economics in 精东影视. Her research focuses on humorous and satirical literature in the context of cultural policies and institutional censorship in Poland after World War II.

Head of the EBCRG

• Anna Wi艣niewska-Grabarczyk

  • She was born in Trzcianka, in the Recovered Territories, where she graduated from Miko艂aj Kopernik Elementary School No. 3 and Stanis艂aw Staszic High School. She holds a PhD in literary studies with honors from the University of 精东影视. She is a writer - in her literary work, she looks for what is, what could be and what never happened; see her book of poem Garnitur wybrany przez grubego stylist臋 z zak艂adu pogrzebowego przy szpitalu (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2025), her novel Porzeczkowy Josef (Anagram 2018) and more... She is a researcher - in her academic work she tries to understand the mechanism of censorship in communist Poland (and beyond), see her Censorship of Literature in Post-War Poland: In Light of the Confidential Bulletins for Censors from 1945 to 1956 and more... She is a recipient of several academic and literary grants and awards, see the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award Nomination and more... She shuttles between Trzcianka, 精东影视, Copenhagen and the rest of the world.

Members

• Berislav Majhut

  University of Zagreb, Croatia

  He is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education at the University of Zagreb, now retired. His research is focused on the history of Croatian literature and narratology. Berislav Majhut was the head of the scientific project Croatian bibliography of children鈥檚 books until 1945 (2007鈥�2014). In 2010, he edited the critical edition of Brave Lapitch鈥檚 Adventure, the most famous Croatian children鈥檚 book by Ivana Brli膰 Ma啪urani膰, so it is the first critical edition of a children鈥檚 book in Croatia. In addition to other published works, he is the author of the book Adventurer, orphan and children鈥檚 band (2005), Emperor鈥檚 Mission (2016), with 艩tefko Batinic, co-author of the monography Croatian picturebooks until 1945 (2017), and with Sanja Lovri膰, co-author of the monographs About Croatian Children鈥檚 Literature (2020) and Our Children鈥檚 Literature (2022) and the author of Croatian children鈥檚 literature turns the page (2022) and On Titonic (2022). Berislav Majhut was the first president of the Croatian Association of Children鈥檚 Literature Researchers (2010鈥�2018).

• Tatyana Blyznuk
  Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, Ukraine
  
  Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (Ph.D.), Associate Professor of Precarpathian National University (Ukraine), expert in educational innovations at the Centre PNU EcoSystem, author of the books Journey to the World of Books: Some Glimpses of English Literature for Children (2018), Formation of digital competence of junior schoolchildren (2019), Digital tools for online and offline learning  (2021) and others. Subjects of scientific research are issues of methodology of teaching English, innovative approaches to teaching language and literature courses, digitization and modernization of the educational process. Developer and teacher of the courses English Children鈥檚 Literature, Methods of Teaching English and Geocultural Scientific Literacy and others.

• Tetiana Kachak

  Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, Ukraine

  Doctor of Philology, member of International Research Society for Children鈥檚 Literature, author of the books Trends in the Development of the Ukrainian Fiction for Children and Youth at the beginning of the 21st Century (2018), The Ukrainian Literature for Children and Youth (2016, 2018), Foreign Literature for Children (2014) and others. Subjects of scientific research are children鈥檚 literature and Literary education and children鈥檚 reading. Developer and teacher of the courses Children鈥檚 Literature, Children's Literature and Methods of Teaching Literary Reading and Digital technologies in the educational process.

• Peter Svetina
• Magdalena Rzepka

• Michail Suslov

  University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Mikhail Suslov, associate professor of Russian history and politics, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. I am trained as a historian and developed a research profile in East European intellectual history and political philosophy with a focus on right-wing and church-related ideas and geopolitical imagination. My recent publication is Putinism 鈥� Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology (Routledge, 2024).

• Piotr Swacha
• Zbigniew Romek
• Anne Etienne

• Lidia Vianu

  The University of Bucharest

  Poet, fiction writer, literary critic, specialist in English studies, and translator. Born on July 7, 1947. Member of the Writers鈥� Union of Romania. PhD in Comparative Literature [1978]. Professor of Modern and Contemporary English Literature, the University of Bucharest. Founder and Director of Contemporary Literature Press [], the online literature publishing house of the University of Bucharest. Founder and director of the eZine Translation Caf茅. Founder of the MA Programme for the Translation of the Contemporary Literary Text. Fullbright Professor at University of California 鈥� Berkeley and State University of New York 鈥� Binghamton [1990鈥�91; 1997鈥�98].

• Barbara Tyszkiewicz

  Instytut Bada艅 Literackich PAN, Poland

  Assistant professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Co-author of biobibliographic (realized in the Contemporary Literature Documentation Workshop) 鈥� a registry of the achievements of contemporary Polish writers and literature researchers. Author of studies and articles on the history of literature and literary life in PRL period, devoted mainly to the biography and work of Jerzy Zawieyski (book monograph in print) and issues of institutional censorship.

• John Bates
• Gergely Gosztonyi  
  
  Associate Professor, a Hungarian lawyer and media researcher. He is the Head of Digital Authoritarianism Research Lab (DARL) at the Faculty of Law of E枚tv枚s Lor谩nd University (ELTE). His research interests include global regulation of social media, censorship, deepfake, alternative media and the liability of intermediaries. Since 2015, he has been the lead coach of the Hungarian team for the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition. He has been an expert on various occasions for the Council of Europe, the National Media and Infocommunications Authority, and the National Talent Centre. He is editor of several law journals and has published over 190 articles in Hungarian and international law journals. His newest book:  (Springer, Dec 2023).

• Libora Oates-Indruchova 

  Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz. She is the author of Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89: Snakes and Ladders (Bloomsbury 2020) and its expanded Czech translation Meze my拧lenek: Cenzura v 膷esk茅 a ma膹arsk茅 v臎d臎, 1969鈥�1989 [The Limits of Thought: Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academia, 1969鈥�1989] (Karolinum/Slon 2026). She authored also several articles on censorship: "Between Censorship and Scholarship: The Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1969鈥�1989), in Muriel Blaive, ed., Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe: Regime Archives and Popular Opinion (Bloomsbury 2019); 鈥淪elf-Censorship and Aesopian Language of Scholarly Texts of Late State Socialism鈥�, The Slavonic and East European Review 96 (2018), 4: 614-641; and 鈥淭he Limits of Thought?: The Regulatory Framework of Social Sciences and Humanities in Czechoslovakia (1968-1989)鈥�, Europe-Asia Studies 60 (2008), 10: 1767-82.

• Magdalena Budnik 

  PhD, assistant professor, employee of the Department of Comparative Studies and Editing, Research Unit for Philological Studies on Censorship at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Bia艂ystok. Author of the monograph: 'The Book of the New Reader. Literature for Former Illiterates Trained in Poland in 1948鈥�1951' (2014). Her research interests include censorship towards the works of the 'Skamander' group, as well as censorship of music, cinema, and theatre in the PRL. 
  She attended workshops and trainings, among others, at the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland, UK); P谩zm谩ny P茅ter Catholic University (Budapest, HU); Vilnius University (Vilnius, LT).

Former Collaborators

• Agata Becherka (Secretary from 2025 to 2026)

  • University of 精东影视, Poland
    A second-year master's student of Polish philology, specializing in Polish literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary literature. Her scholarly interests include gender and feminist studies, as well as the impact of new technologies and the Internet on literary forms. She is currently engaged in early-stage research exploring the intersections of literature, digital media, and cultural theory.

External Members, Friends & Partner's Institutions

• Roar Lishaugen

  Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University, Sweden

  Lecturer in Czech Studies, Roar Lishaugen's research interests include cultural production and especially reception in Central European totalitarian regimes. He has published on Czech reading culture in the 1950s ("Incompatible Reading Cultures", Scando-Slavica, 2014) and, together with Dr 艩mejkalov谩, on Cold War reading culture ("Reading East of the Berlin Wall", PMLA, 2019) and home libraries ("Sites of Book Memory", Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 2023).

• Smiljana Naran膷i膰 Kova膷
• Peter Svetina
• Aleksander Pawlicki