Maiia Harbuzyuk is a professor at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv and Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Arts. She is also a theatre critic and theatre historian. She graduated from the I. K. Karpenki-Kary National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television in the Faculty of Theatre Studies (1991). From 1991 to 2001 she was an assistant to the literary director at the M. Zankovetskaya National Theatre in Lviv. From 1999 to the present, she has been working at the Department of Theatrology and Acting Arts of the Faculty of Culture and Arts of the I. Franko National University of Lviv: PhD (2007). She obtained a habilitation degree in 2020) and became a professor of the department in 2021. Editor-in-chief of the theatrological journal “Proscaenium” of I. Franko LNU. President of the Committee on Theatre Studies of the Scientific Society named after Taras Shevchenko. Author of more than 220 articles on the history, theory of theatre, current stage life of Lviv and Ukraine. Her monograph Ukraine in the Polish Theatre of the Nineteenth Century: Strategies and Forms of Representation was devoted to the imaginative aspects of Polish-Ukrainian theatrical relations. She teaches a master's course on "Postcolonial Studies in Theatre Studies" in Lviv, as well as classes in theatre studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. She participates in the work of the international research group established within the BPW-TKL Laboratory in the academic year 2022/23: 'Local knowledges in theatre and performance of the last two decades in the face of epistemic injustice. Polish and Ukrainian perspectives'.

Agnieszka Matusiak is a full professor, postdoctoral fellow, literary scholar, and Slavist. Since 1998, she has worked at the Institute of Slavonic Philology at the Faculty of Philology, University of Wrocław. From 2008-2018, she headed the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the IFS. Since 2015, she has been the head of the Centre for Transcultural Posttotalitarian Studies at the Faculty of Philology, UWr. From 2008 to 2015, she also worked at the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Her research interests include Ukrainian and Russian literature, gender studies, memorial and trauma studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies. She is the author of more than a hundred scholarly publications, including such monographs as The Dream Motif in the Prose of the Older Russian Symbolists. Fyodor Sologub (2001), In the Circle of Ukrainian Secession. Selected Problems of the Poetics of the Works of the Writers of the “Young Muse” (Polish ed. 2006; ukr. ed.: 2016), Химерний Яцків. Модерністський дискурс у прозі Михайла Яцкова (2010), Emerging from Silence. Decolonial struggles of 21st century Ukrainian culture and literature with post-totalitarian trauma (2018; ukr. ed. 2020). In 2013-2016, she directed an international research project on 'Posttotalitarian generational syndrome in Slavic literatures of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the light of postcolonial studies' (NPRH No. 12H 12 0046 81). Editor-in-chief of the journals: "Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia" (Wrocław) and "Pomiędzy. Polonistyno-Ukrainoznawcze Studia Naukowe" (Lviv Kiev-Wrocław), as well as the publishing series "Wrocławskie Studia nad Posttotalitaryzmami" (Wydawnictwo UWr). She has lectured at universities in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine, USA. Scholarship holder at Harvard University. Participates in the work of the international research group established within the BPW-TKL Workshop in the academic year 2022/23: 'Local knowledges in theatre and performance of the last two decades against epistemic injustice.

 Oleksandr Pronkevych is a full professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv in Ukraine. He is currently working at the Catholic University of Lviv. He edited together with Jorge Latorre, Antonio Martínez El telón rasgado. El Quijote como puente cultural con el mundo soviético y postsoviético (Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, S.A., Pamplona, 2015; ukr. ed. NaKMA University Press, 2012) and he is the author of Нація-нарація в іспанській літературі доби модернізму (Nation as Narration in the Spanish Literature of the Modernist Period). - (Kyiv, Pedahohichna Presa, 2008). He was the head of two research projects, including most recently - 2014 -2015 "Posttotalitarian generational syndrome in the Slavic literatures of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe of the late 20th - early 21st century in the light of postcolonial studies” (- (sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Polish Republic) in cooperation with the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the Institute of Slavic Philology of the University of Wrocław and the Department of Theory of Literature of the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences named after T.H. Shevchenko. His research interests include: an introduction to the methodology of Spanish cultural studies on national identity in twentieth-century literature, studies on representations of Spain and Spaniards in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Ukrainian and Russian literature, the intermediality of literature and film, literature and animated films, literature and kitch and advertising in the process of constructing a nation, totalitarian and post-totalitarian studies in Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian literature and culture.  She participates in the work of the international research group established within the BPW-TKL Studio in the academic year 2022/23: 'Local knowledges in theatre and performance of the last two decades in the face of epistemic injustice. Polish and Ukrainian perspectives'.

holds a doctorate in literary studies and a post-doctorate in cultural studies, and is a professor at the University of Silesia in the Institute of Cultural Studies. Her research interests focus on local theatre culture, theatre and theatre criticism of the interwar period, folk and amateur theatre, and stage art forms. She has published two monographs: Kabarety i rewie międzywojennej Warszawy. Z prasowego archiwum Dwudziestolecia (Katowice 2007) and Czasopiśmiennictwo teatralne w Polsce w latach 1914-1939 (Katowice 2014), and a series of articles on Silesian and Zagłębie theatre. Board member of the Polish Theatre Research Society and the Polish Cultural Studies Society. Together with Ewa Bal and Ewa Wąchowska, she is co-editor of a collective monograph being prepared for publication as part of the activities of the BPW_TKL Workshop: At the meeting point. Naturo-Cultural Performances in Diagnosing Zones of Contact and Conflict (to be published in autumn by WUJ 2022)