Paulina Lewin is a leading authority on Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian literature and theater of the Baroque period. She is a former senior lecturer at Warsaw University, a research associate of the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and an associate professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. After emigrating to the United States, she lectured at Harvard University and was a research associate of its Ukrainian Research Institute. Dr. Lewin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.