Professor of American Literature at the Universoty of Rzesow. He is the author of scores of scholarly essays on postmodernism and American historical fiction on literary ethnicity. Professor Gladsky has published Princes, Peasants and Other Polish Selves; Ethnicity in American Literature, Something of My Very Own to Say: American Women Writers of Polish Descent, and Ethnicity, Gender, Culture: Poles in Urban American. Twice winner of the Oscar Halecki Award, Gladsky is former President of the Polish American Historical Association.