Ewa Bachmińska is a senior lecturer of Polish at Cornell University where she teaches all levels of Polish, and two film courses: East European Film, and Animals in Global Cinema. She holds a BA & MA in applied linguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland; an MA in music (jazz studies) from Webster University in St. Louis; and an MA in Spanish from Saint Louis University. At Cornell, she is also a PhD student in animal science. Her research is about the most threatened mammalian species in Poland: their conservation, welfare, and place in education, culture, and literature.