Stanley Bill

Professor of Polish Studies · School of Arts and Humanities · University of Cambridge

Quick answer: Stanley Bill is Professor of Polish Studies at University of Cambridge. Stanley Bill shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.

⭐ Professor Bill welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research plans relevant to his interests.

Research interests

Polish literature, culture, and politics; populism and civil society in Poland; postcolonial theory in the Polish context; legacies of Polish Romanticism; works of Czesław Miłosz, Bruno Schulz, and Fyodor Dostoevsky

Selected publications (since 2023)

[2025] Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution, co-authored with Ben Stanley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025). [2025] "Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland," co-authored with Ben Stanley. Journal of Democracy 36.3 (July 2025): 16-32. [2024] "Polish Studies and the 'Decolonization' Paradigm after Russia's Invasion of Ukraine." Konteksty Kultury 21.1 (2024): 23-29. [2023] Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, co-edited with Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023). [2023] "The Ukrainian Sublime: Nineteenth-Century Polish Visions of the East," in Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023), 1

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