Full Professor at the Institute of Romance Philology, Jagiellonian University. From 2004 to 2020, she was Head of the Department of Italian Philology. Deputy Director of the Institute of Roman Philology from 2005-2012. Member of the Board of the Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Seicento (CISS), member of the Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano (AIPI) and the Associazione Italiana Polonisti (AIP). Her research interests include Italian literature of the medieval, baroque, and modern periods, Italian-Polish cultural and literary relations over the centuries, and literary translation in a historical context. Her interest in ancient literary translation is related to the study of archival resources. In 2008-2011 she participated in the research project “History of the collection of Romanesque manuscripts in the Berlin book collection at the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow”, financed by Norwegian funds, working on Italian manuscripts and resulting in the publication “I manoscritti italiani della collezione berlinese conservati nella Biblioteca Jagellonica di Cracovia (sec. XVII-XIX)”, Kraków 2012. She is the co-author and author of several books on the history of translation and Italian influences on Polish culture and literature from the earliest times to the 20th century.