Barbara Kaczyńska

(University of Warsaw, Poland)

Barbara Kaczyńska holds a Master degree in applied linguistics and in history. She is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, where she studies the reception of French 17^th- and 18^th-century fairy tales in Polish children’s literature. She has published papers on fairy tales and on metafiction in children’s literature, as well as on Polish medieval lexicography. She translates history books for the general public, and she is currently preparing the first Polish translation of La Belle et la Bête by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve.