Grażyna Maria Teresa Branny, Profesor Emeritus of the Pedagogical University in Kraków, currently Associate Professor at the Jesuit Ignatianum University in Kraków, Poland. Obtained her PhD from the Jagiellonian University and her habilitation from the University of Łódź. She is both a specialist in American Literature and a Conrad scholar. Her publications include a comparative study A Conflict of Values: Alienation and Commitment in the Novels of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner (1997), editorship of books, e.g., Fictions and Metafictions of Evil: Essays in Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies (2013), published with Peter Lang Verlag as well as a series of articles titled Intertextualizing Collective American Memory in Southern, African American and Native American Fiction: William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Edward P. Jones and Louise Erdrich (2015). She is a reviewer of the American Journal of Literary and Art Studies and Journal of Interdisciplinary Philology (Zilina University, Slovakia).