Ewa Wampuszyc completed her PhD in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She has been teaching Polish to university students since 1994. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Polish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches Polish language courses at all levels, as well as literature, cinema, and culture courses. Her research focuses on the textual representation of Warsaw in literature, photography, and film.