Tamara Trojanowska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures where she directs the Polish Language and Literature Program, and a Director of the University College Drama Program at the University of Toronto. She specializes in Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries and in drama and theatre theory. Her current interests include issues of identity and experience and transgression as a creative and interpretative strategy. In the last twelve years she has built one of strongest Polish Language and Literature Programs in North America and revived its graduate component. The graduates of this program hold academic positions in Great Britain and Canada and five more students currently work on their doctorates with Prof. Trojanowska. Her most current publications include: New Perspectives on Polish Culture: Personal Encounters, Public Afairs (co-edited with her graduate students: Artur Placzkiewicz, Agnieszka Polakowska and Olga Ponichtera, forthcoming in 2011); “Na scenie czy w kulisach,” in Polonistyka bez granic, vol.1, Universitas, 2011; “Polish Theater and Drama at a Turning Point,” in History of the East-Central European Literary Cultures, eds. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer, 2010; “Gra o miejski palimpsest,” in Dwudziestolecie. Teatr polski po 1989 roku, ed. Dorota Jarzebek, Universitas, 2010; and “Spektakl innosci i milczenia: Iwona, ksiezniczka Burgunda,” in Witold Gombrowicz – nasz wspolczesny, ed. Jerzy Jarzebski, Universitas, 2010. She is currently working on two major research projects. One is A History of Polish Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on 20th and 21st Centuries, a 700-page volume on the 20th and 21st century Polish literature and culture, co-edited with Joanna Nizynska (Harvard) and Przemyslaw Czaplinski (AMU in Poznan), with participation of over fifty scholars from all over the world. The other is Performing Excess, Scandal,and Transgression: Polish Contemporary Drama and Theatre.