Marek Paryż is Associate Professor of American Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. He serves as the chief editor of the Polish Journal for American Studies , the senior editor for literature and culture of the European Journal of American Studies , and the main editor of the book series “European Perspectives on the United States” (Brill). He is the author of The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). His current research focuses the Western across narrative arts, and he takes a special interest in transnational uses of the genre. He has co-edited The Post-2000 Film Western: Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity (with John Leo, Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and The Western in the Global Literary Imagination (with Christopher Conway and David Rio, Brill 2022). He has also co-edited several special issues of journals on topics related to the Western.