Jovanka Kalaba

Dr. Jovanka Kalaba is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Hotel Management and Tourism in Vrnjačka Banja, part of the University of Kragujevac. Her academic career spans institutions including the University of Belgrade, Université de Strasbourg, and Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna. She holds a doctoral degree in English Language and contributes to fields such as Modern English, Literary Translation, and Postmodernist Literature.

• University of Belgrade: B.A. (2005), M.A. (2008)
• Université de Strasbourg & Università di Bologna: M.A. (2011)
• University of Belgrade: PhD (2017)

Her research focuses on Modern English, English as a foreign language, Modernism and Postmodernism in literature and culture, Literary Translation, and Literary Tourism. Her publications often intersect with themes of cultural critique, linguistic analysis, and literary adaptation.

Recent works include analyses of Oscar Wilde's Salome, Thomas Hardy's Tess adaptations, and postmodernist novels by Thomas Pynchon. These explore aestheticism, intertextuality, and cultural narratives.

• Member of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia (2019–present)
• Editor for Serbian literature at Asymptote journal (2020–present)