Marta Wojtkowska-Maksymik, Ph.D., is professor of literary history at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She carries out research about early modern Polish literature and 16th century translations.Magdalena Zawisławska, Ph.D., is professor of Polish philology at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include lexical, cognitive, and comparative semantics, and metaphor in different types of discourse.

• Polish literature – Polish linguistic – case studies – (pop)culture – fantasy – Renaissance – Modernist novel – Andrzej Sapkowski – Stanis³aw Lem – Joanna Bator – Lviv – Jewish culture – Jewish cities – metaphor – Miko³aj Rej – Erazm Gliczner – Marcin Czechowic – Reformation – Jan Seklucjan – literary translation – gentry tale – women – translation studies