Adriana Sara Jastrzębska – Hispanist, Colombianist, and translator with a PhD in Humanities from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. From 2007 to 2020, she served as Associate Professor and Director of the Hispanic Studies Chair at the University of Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Since 2020, she has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.She has translated both fiction and academic works from Spanish and Catalan and is a recognized expert in narratology and contemporary Spanish-American literature, with a focus on Colombia, Central America, and Mexico. She is the author of several monographs and around 50 scholarly articles on recent Colombian and Central American narrative, the noir novel, and the “narconovela,” published in both European and American journals and collections.
Her editorial work includes co-editing collective volumes such as Identidad en movimiento: fronteras, migraciones y diálogo intercultural en el mundo hispánico (2014), La espiritualidad de América Latina (2018), and Estudios interdisciplinarios de género: Critical Approaches (2019), as well as thematic issues in the journals Między Oryginałem a Przekładem and Studia Iberica.