Mateusz Świetlicki, dr habil. is Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of English Studies (Poland) and Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and Extramural Teaching at the Faculty of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. His most recent book, Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), examines the transnational entanglements of Canada and Ukraine. He has recently co-edited Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy: Global and Transnational Perspectives (Brill, 2023 - with Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska and Agata Zarzycka), a special issue of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s 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 – with Izabella Kimak). Świetlicki was a Research Scholar at the University of Florida’s 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’s “Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition” series, and a representative of the Childhood & Youth Network of the Social Science History Association.