Dr. Gracjan Kraszewski

Director of Intellectual Formation

Author of the novels Thermonuclear Mirth (Arouca Press, 2024), Seraphim and the Dust Plague (Arouca, 2024) and The Holdout (Adelaide Books, 2018); the book of essays The Hippo Lectures (Arouca, 2023) and the Civil War history Catholic Confederates (Kent State Univ. Press, 2020).
Selected fiction has appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Riddle Fence, Nashwaak Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Eclectica Magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, New English Review, The Southern Distinctive, PILGRIM, Bull: Men’s Fiction, Black Bear Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Scriberlus. Selected articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Catholic Historical Review, The Polish Review, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of Southern Religion, and Idaho Magazine. Future research will be concentrated on writing a comprehensive Great War history about people on the Palouse. Currently working on two fiction books: Margaux Himmel (estimated publ date 2026?) and a modern Divine Comedy inspired book called Bubba's Purgatorio (2027?).

Earned his PhD in history from Mississippi State University. Teaches/has taught in Washington State University’s department of history, WSU's School of Design + Construction, and in the University of Idaho's College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences. Previously taught in the history department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has played baseball collegiately, professionally in Europe in the Czech Republic and Belgium, and for the Polish National Team. He is fluent in English, Polish and French with some ability in Spanish, Russian and Italian.