Bożena Shallcross, Professor of Polish Language and Literature in the Department of Slavic Language and Literatures at the University of Chicago, is currently a visiting professor at Bard College Graduate Center in NYC, where she is delivering the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture. The series of three lectures is entitled “Portable Tombs of Memory: The Ringelblum Archive as a Collection of Objects.”
Prof. Shallcross' monograph The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish–Jewish Culture recently appeared in Russian translation: Божена Шелкросс, Холокост: вещи. Репрезентация Холокоста в польской и польско-еврейской культуре, trans. Maria Kerzan’ (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2023). Her other recent publications include: “Scandalous Glass House: On Modernist Transparency in Architecture and Life,” in Centering the Periphery: Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital, ed. Natalia Aleksiun, Halina Goldberg, Nancy Sinkoff (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2023); and "Ecce Homo? Leo Lipski, the Writer," the introduction to the translation by Anna Zaranko of Leo Lipski's Piotruś. Apocrypha (Detroit: The Vine Editions, 2023).