Wojciech Kalaga is Professor of Literary Theory and English Literature at the University of Silesia (Poland). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Er(r)go and has published widely on literary and cultural theory. Marzena Kubisz is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the same university. Her publications include Strategies of Resistance, Body, Identity and Representation in Western Culture and papers on cultural theory and the sociology of the body.