Alicia Nitecki /ni'tetski/,[1] (January 2, 1942 – September 5, 2021) was an American author and professor of English literature at Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

From 1942 to 1944 Alicia Nitecki lived in Nazi-occupied Warsaw with her upper-class family (House of Kurnatowski).

After the crush of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944 she and her family were deported by the Nazis to the west of Germany and finally lived in a labor camp in Lauterbach, Baden-Württemberg until 1945.

in English literature from Buffalo, and then went on to a Ph.D. program at Kent State University in Ohio, where she wrote her doctoral thesis in 1976.

[4] Other translations include: Nitecki has also published numerous essays in American and German periodicals and given lectures and presentations on both her scholarly interests, mediaeval English literature and the Holocaust, as reflected in Polish writings.