Krzysztof Ziarek is Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the co-editor of Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies (2001); and the author of Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness (1994); The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event (2001); and, most recently, The Force of Art, forthcoming from Stanford University Press this fall. A volume of his poems in Polish, Zaimejlowane z Polski, was published in 2000.