Ewa M. Pasek graduated from Warsaw University (Poland) with a dual Master’s degree in Philosophy and Polish Philology. She is a lecturer in Polish and Czech Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, and a certified ACTFL OPI tester for Polish. Her research interests include Polish language acquisition, lexicography and cultural linguistics. She is a co-editor of the first five fascicles of The Dictionary of the 17&18th Century Polish Language (Polish Academy of Sciences) and a co-translator of The Romance of Teresa Hennert by Zofia Nałkowska.