Agnieszka Makles received her second MA in 2021 in Foreign Language Teaching from Michigan State University following an earlier MA in Pedagogy from Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland in 2006. Currently, she teaches Polish in the Department of German and REELL (Russian and East European Languages and Literatures) at Rutgers University, NJ. Her research interests include the application of multimodality, authentic texts, and corpus linguistics in language teaching especially for Less Commonly Taught Languages. Agnieszka is also a co-founder/field researcher in the Texas Polish Dialect Project focused on documenting the Polish language in Texas. Finally, she directs the Kościuszko Squadron, a Polish culture club for students at the United States Military Academy West Point.