Iwona MAZUR is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Translation Studies, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Her research interests include audiovisual translation in general and audio description in particular. She is also interested in intercultural aspects of translation as well as globalization and localization in the context of translation. In 2005 she defended her PhD thesis concerning localized English-language magazines in Poland. She has taught B.A. and M.A. seminars in Translation Studies as well as trained translators and interpreters as part of both graduate and postgraduate courses. She is a practicing translator.