Anna Pochmara is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. As a graduate student, she received a Fulbright grant to do research for her doctoral project at Yale University under the academic guidance of Professor Hazel V. Carby. Between 2013 and 2017, she was the editor of Acta Philologica and in 2017 she co-edited On Uses of Black Camp, a special issue of Open Cultural Studies. For the last three years, she has collaborated with Ewa Luczak and Samir Dayal on the anthology Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity, which has just been released by De Gruyter Open (2019). She is the author of over twenty articles and reviews in the field of American studies and The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality (Amsterdam University Press, 2011), for which she received the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education Award. J. Brummer writes in the Callaloo that the book “constitutes a provocative, thorough, and timely addition to the field “and “should engender important new debate.” Pochmara has just completed her book on the uses of temperance and intemperance in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century African American literature. It will be published under the title The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel by the University of Georgia Press in 2020