Kris Van Heuckelom teaches Polish language, literature and culture at KU Leuven (Belgium). His research interests include modern Polish literature, translation studies, migration studies, memory studies, visual culture and film. He co-edited (together with Dieter De Bruyn) the volume (Un)masking Bruno Schulz. New Combinations, Further Fragmentations, Ultimate Reintegrations (New York – Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009) and contributed to the multi-authored volume Polish Literature in Transformation (edited by Ursula Phillips with the assistance of Knut Andreas Grimstad & Kris Van Heuckelom, Berlin – Münster: LIT Verlag, 2013). He is the co-editor (together with Leen Engelen) of European Cinema after the Wall. Screening East-West Mobility (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) and is finishing a monograph on the representation of Polish migrants in European cinema.