Biographies
Urszula Leszczyńska is currently studying in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. In 2016, she received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Warsaw. Her BA thesis concerned Polish dubbing and its understanding by Polish viewers. Since then, she has been writing her master’s thesis on volunteer and collaborative translation and subtitling of TED Talks. She works as a translator and volunteers as a TED translator.
E-mail: u.leszczynska@student.uw.edu.pl.
Agnieszka Szarkowska is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London (2016-2018), working on the project Exploring Subtitle Reading with Eye Tracking Technology. Since 2007, she has been Assistant Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. She is the founder and head of the Audiovisual Translation Lab (AVT Lab, www.avt.ils.uw.edu.pl) and specialises in audiovisual translation, especially subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing and audio description.
E-mail: a.szarkowska@uw.edu.pl