Magdalena Nowinska is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (German Section) at the University of São Paulo. She holds a Ph.D. in Languages and Literatures (German Language and Literature) from the same university. She holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Literature from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany (2000) and a master’s degree in History from the same university (2001). In 2014, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in German literature at the University of São Paulo. In 2017, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Language Studies at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).