Magdalena Jolanta Koch (born 1958) is a Polish academic, a specialist in Serbian and Croatian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, she has specialized in Gender studies, identity, transculturalism of the Balkans as well as modern Serbian and Croatian drama.

She graduated in Slavic studies (Russian and Serbocroatian language) at University of Wrocław in 1981, where she taught until 2011. She gained her PhD (1997) with a work Podróże w czasie i przestrzeni. Proza Isidory Sekulić. Since October 2011 she is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.