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Professor Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska is a faculty member at the Department of Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. With a habilitation in 1995 focused on American and Comparative Literature, she has held the title of Professor since 2006 after being an Associate Professor from 2000-2011. Her career spans editorial roles in journals like Studia Judaica, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, and Akcent, alongside extensive international guest lectures at institutions including Harvard and Yad Vashem.
- PhD in English Literature and Translation Theory (UMCS 1985)
- Habilitation in American and Comparative Literature (UMCS 1995)
- Full Professor (UMCS 2006)
Her research focuses on Translation Theory, Yiddish Literature, 20th-Century American Literature, and Comparative Literature, with particular emphasis on Polish-Yiddish literary exchanges, Yizkor books, and postwar Jewish memory in Eastern Europe. Her 15 most recent articles (2001-2015) explore topics like Lewis Carroll’s Polish translations, Holocaust literature reception, and Yiddish-Polish cultural bridges.
Awarded the Irena Sendlerowa Award (2016) and multiple Rector Prizes at UMCS, she has also received the Vivian Lefsky Fellowship at YIVO and a Fulbright at Brandeis. She has supervised five PhD theses and over 120 MA/BA students, primarily in American Literature, Comparative Studies, and Cultural Translation.
Currently serving on academic councils for institutions like the National Program for the Development of Humanities and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, her work bridges literary scholarship with cultural preservation initiatives across Poland, Israel, and the United States.
