Barry Keane, professor in translation and comparative studies in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, is the editor and translator of Anna Stanislawska, Orphan Girl (2016), the “Aesop” episode; 2021, the “Olesnicki” episode; and now in 2026, the entire work, including the final “Zbaski” episode). He is the author of the monograph Irish Drama in Poland: Staging and Reception, 1900–2000 (2016) and books on the Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, the Polish Renaissance and Baroque, and the modernist Skamander poets. He has also penned a wide range of scholarly articles and several volumes of poetry.