Joanna Kosmalska is a translator, an editor of DeKadentzya literary journal and a research fellow at the Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Łódź. In 2010–2013 she ran a postgraduate training programme for teachers of English (www.anglista.uni.lodz.pl). She is the author of “Polish Emigration Literature in Ireland and Great Britain since 2004” project (www.emigracja.uni.lodz.pl)