Ewa Małachowska-Pasek is a collegiate lecturer in Polish and Czech Studies at the University of Michigan and a certified ACTFL OPI tester for Polish. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Institute of Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Kraków, Poland, and a dual MA in Philosophy and Polish Philology from the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include Romani Studies, Polish language acquisition, lexicography, and cultural linguistics. She is a co-editor of the first five fascicles of "The Dictionary of the 17th and 18th-Century Polish Language" published by PAN and a co-translator of "The Romance of Teresa Hennert" by Zofia Nałkowska.