Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska is Professor of Comparative Literature at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She researches and publishes in translation studies, Jewish studies, and American literature. Her books include Polska Isaaca Bashevisa Singera – rozstanie i powrót (Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Poland: Exile and Return, 1994); Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (2001, co-editor), and Odcienie tożsamości: Literatura żydowska jako zjawisko wielojęzyczne (Shades of Identity: Jewish Literature as a Multilingual Phenomenon, 2004). She has translated almost twenty books from English and Yiddish into Polish.