Dr. Gracjan Kraszewski

Author of two books: a novel entitled  The Holdout (Adelaide Books, 2018) and a Civil War history entitled  Catholic Confederates (The Kent State University Press, 2020). Currently working on two subsequent books:  Job Search, an absurdist and maximalist philosophical comedy novel set one hundred years in the future investigating the themes of American freedom, free will, and the pursuit of happiness in a time of apocalyptic thermonuclear geopolitics and  Fides Quaerens Intellectum, a collection of essays stemming from the monthly lectures given at St. Augustine’s. Selected writings—incl. academic articles, essays, and literary fiction—have appeared in  The Catholic Historical Review,  Eclectica Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Riddle Fence, Religious and Sacred Poetry, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Polish Review, The Coil, Bull: Men’s Fiction, and  Idaho Magazine. 

Earned PhD in history from Mississippi State University, teaches in Washington State University’s School of Design + Construction, and previously taught in the history dept. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Played baseball in college, two seasons professionally in Europe in the Czech Republic and Belgium, and for the Polish National Team. Fluent in English and Polish and French, at an intermediate level in Italian and Russian, conversational in Spanish, and studying Latin and Persian.

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