Bill Johnston

Bill Johnston teaches Comparative Literature at Indiana University, where he directs the Polish Studies Center. He has held translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose from the Polish, including books by Witold Gombrowicz, Krzystof Kamil Baczynski, and Juliusz Slowacki. His translation of Magdalena Tulli’s Dreams and Stones (Archipelago Books, 2004) won the 2005 Translation Prize of AATSEEL (the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages).