Jess Jensen Mitchell is in the ABD stage of the graduate program. In 2019, she received a Joint Honours degree in History and Slavic Studies at McGill University in Montreal. She has also studied at the University of Warsaw, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Middlebury College. She researches contemporary Polish writing about the past; her dissertation addresses literature about Upper Silesia as a significant cultural phenomenon which subverts binary, ethno-nationalist models of Polish identity. Her work is likewise concerned with the influence of Second Generation Jewish memory, as well as questions of genre and fictionality. Jess' scholarship is complemented by her role as a Polish-to-English literary translator. In 2022, she was awarded The Emerging Translator Mentorship by The National Centre for Writing and her work will be featured in the Spring 2023 issue of Two Lines.

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