Małgorzata Gaszyńska-Magiera is a Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies as well as Translation Studies at the University of Warsaw. She studied Spanish at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she completed her doctoral thesis on Polish equivalents of the Spanish subjunctive mood in translations of Latin American fiction in 1996. She lectured at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Connecticut (Storrs). She has published numerous publications on literary translation and reception. Her current research focuses on links between translation and memory.