University of Turin

Krystyna Jaworska is Full Professor of Polish Language and Literature at the University of Turin. She is coordinator of the local research unit for the project From Post-Trauma to Ecology: Contemporary Gender Narratives in Slavic Cultural Texts (PRIN 2022 – 2022S3XZZ5). Her research focuses primarily on the relationship between literature and history during periods of heightened tension in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as on specific aspects of 20th-century Polish poetry. She has studied trauma in women’s literature on the gulag and Siberian deportations, as well as the memory of trauma in contemporary Polish literature. She is the author of several monographs, the most recent of which is dedicated to the literary production of the Polish Army in the USSR, the Middle East, and Italy between 1941 and 1946 (Dalla deportazione all’esilio, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2019), and of over 150 contributions published in edited volumes and academic journals in Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, and the United States. Among the authors she has studied most extensively is Gustaw Herling, for whom she edited a volume in the prestigious “Meridiani” series (G. Herling, Etica e letteratura, Mondadori, 2019). She serves on the Scientific Board of the National Library of Warsaw, the Advisory Board of the Międzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie Studiów Polonistycznych (International Association of Polish Studies), and is a member of the boards of the Umiastowska Foundation, the Lanckoroński Foundation, the Gaetano Salvemini Institute of Historical Studies, and the Memorial Museum of the Polish Second Corps in Italy. She is a member of the Italian Association of Polish Studies (AIP), the Italian Association of Slavic Studies (AIS), the Polskie Towarzystwo Naukowe na Obczyźnie (Polish Scientific Society Abroad), and the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London. She is editor of the series Polonica (Aracne) and Memoriae (Umiastowska Foundation), and sits on the scientific board of Wiek XIX and the editorial board of pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi. Her principal awards include: Diploma of High Merit for Polish Culture in the World (awarded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Bronisław Geremek, 1997); Gloria Artis, Gold Medal (from the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland, Tomasz Merta, 2007); and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (awarded by President Bronisław Komorowski, 2014).

Dario Prola is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures at the University of Turin, where he teaches Polish language and translation. He has published numerous scholarly articles on contemporary Polish literature, Italian-Polish literary relations, and issues in literary translation. He edited the Polish editions of short stories by Italo Svevo (Wyznania starca, Sic!, 2019) and Arrigo Boito (Nowele, Austeria, 2021), as well as the Italian edition of short stories by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Novelle italiane, 21 editore, 2014). His authored and edited volumes include: Mito e rappresentazione della città nella letteratura polacca (Aracne, 2014); “Spossato dalla bellezza”. L’Italia nella scrittura di Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Edizioni dell’Orso, 2018); Il traduttore errante (with E. Jamrozik, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2017); Sponde, confini, trincee: l’Italia nell’Europa post-1918 (with S. Rosatti, DiG, 2019); and Rok 1968 w Europie. Badania i pamięć / The Year 1968 in Europe. Research and Memory (with P. Podemski, Scholar, 2019). He is Deputy Editor of Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny and Co-Editor of PL.IT / Rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi. He has translated into Italian several major 20th-century Polish authors, including Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Tadeusz Konwicki, and Witold Gombrowicz.

Nadia Caprioglio is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures at the University of Turin. Her research focuses on the intersections between ecology and literature in the Russian context. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (AY 2005–06), and from 2015 to 2022 served as Visiting Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU). She has translated Russian prose (including works by F. Dostoevsky, A. Chekhov, V. Rozanov, M. Bulgakov, and others) and poetry (K. Pavlova, I. Lisnyanskaya, V. Vysotsky). She has published essays on Symbolism, modern and contemporary Russian literature, and the Russian avant-garde. She also edited the first Italian edition of Kazimir Malevich’s theoretical and philosophical writings. More recently, she edited Perché è crollata l'Unione Sovietica? (Il Mulino), and co-edited the special issue of Lagoonscapes: The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities titled Framing Environment in Russia: Critical Reflections on Ecology, Culture and Power (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari).

Giulia Randone studied Literature, Polish Studies, and Theatre Cultures at the University of Turin. In 2017, she earned a PhD in Theatre History with a dissertation on Yiddish theatre in Poland, published the following year under the title Indomita yidishe mame. Ida Kaminska e la sua famiglia teatrale. Alongside her academic research, she works as a translator of Polish prose (Stanisław Lem, Alter Fajnzylberg, Andrzej Wajda, Mariusz Wilk) and nonfiction, and as an interpreter for literary figures at cultural festivals and international events. Since 2008, she has curated several exhibitions dedicated to Polish poster art across Italy. In 2009, she co-founded the Slavic cultural association Polski Kot, through which she regularly organizes literary events, concerts, film series, art workshops, and other Polish cultural promotion initiatives. She is also the organizer of the Slavika festival, which reached its eighth edition in 2025.