MELINDA BÁNYÁSZ (PhD) – professor of English and Hungarian – was born in 1977 in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). She completed her studies in Hungarian Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature, at Babeș-Bolyai University, in her native city. She defended her doctoral thesis in 2013 at the same university, her research field being Kelemen Mikes’s prose fiction in his Letters, and the problems of prose fiction translation in his adaptation into Hungarian of Madame Gomez’s Les Journals amusantes under the title Mulatságos Napok.