Katarzyna Sówka-Pietraszewska is a senior lecturer at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław. She is a graduate of the University of Wrocław. Her scholarly interests include historical syntax and semantics, mechanisms of language change, and corpus linguistics. She published articles on issues relating to Old English syntax and semantics and the lexis of Germanic languages. Currently, she is a technical assistant in the research projects: NERTHUS Project – Parallel Corpus of Old English, tagging and annotating the data, and CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) annotating the data. 

Since 2016 she has been the Deputy Head for Promotion and Outreach. Since 2018 she has been the supervisor of the extramural BA studies and since 2021 of the extramural MA studies.