Agnieszka Chmiel

Agnieszka Chmiel works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). In her 2004 PhD thesis she focused on the neurocognitive aspects of conference interpreting. Her research interests include conference interpreting, audio description, audiovisual translation, cognitive studies, memory and visual imagery in interpreting. She works as an interpreter and translator and has trained conference interpreters for eight years now. She has co-authored audio description for a few Polish films and delivered it live at the 33rd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and the “Integration You and Me” Festival in Koszalin. She conducts research on Polish audio description and is a member in a team developing Polish AD standards. www.aga.e-chmiel.pl