In memoriam
1950 – 2012
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Curriculum vitae:
Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan was born in Zagreb where she received her BA(1976), MA(1981) and PhD(1988) in philology (with specialization in British and Croatian literature). She attended graduate courses at The Yale Summer School of Theory and Criticism (Evanston, 1882, Dartmouth, 1987) and at the Institute of Semiotics, Victoria University, Canada (1982).
She is a full professor and the head of English literature at the University of Zagreb and a principal researcher on the project The Articulation of National Identity in Croatian, Irish and some Other Anglophone Literatures. Previously she has taught in Slavic Departments at University of Michigan and Yale University (as the Fulbright visiting scholar) and at The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London (British Council grant).
Gjurgjan teaches courses on British romanticism, British and Irish modernism, women’s writing, gender studies and applied postcolonial and gender theory on the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. She has supervised two PhD, two MA thesis and over 50 diploma essays.
Research interests
Gjurgjan’s main research interest is in the period of modernism, in particular English, Irish and Croatian early 20th-century literature viewed in the light of contemporary literary and cultural theories. The stress of her research has been on the comparative study of cultural operations and identity creation. She is also interested in the creation of gender and national stereotypes and in the postcolonial reading of the politics of representation in regard to the East/West dichotomy.
Other professional activities
Gjurgjan is the president of the Croatian section of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), a member of the editorial board of Umjetnost riječi (Art Word) and Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia (U. of Zagreb) and of the advisory board of the official journal of ESSE The European Journal for English Studies.
She has contributed as an author to Hrvatska enciklopedija 1999-2009, Leksikon hrvatske književnost, ŠK, and as an author and editor to Leksikon svjetske književnost, ŠK.
Plenary lectures and conferences
She has co-organized three conferences at IUC-Dubrovnik (International James Joyce, 2004, Writing and Language: The Politics of Feminist Critical Practice and Theory, 1988, Poetics and Politics of Women Writing, 1986.) and Ireland: East and West at the University of Zagreb (2011). She has given plenary lectures at Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.; Croatian Embassy, London; Trinity College, Dublin; SEESS, U. of London; James Joyce Centre, Dublin; The Trieste Joyce School She has also presented her papers at over 30 international conferences.
Undergraduate courses
English Romanticism
Modern Women’s Writing in English
Graduate courses
Ethics and Aesthetics of British and Irish Modernism
The Articulation of Gender in Modern Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Doctoral courses (taught in Croatian)
The methods of reading
Ethics and Aesthetics of Modernism: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Nazor, Krleža
Introduction to Postcolonialism
Selected bibliography
Books:
· Mitsko i nacionalno u književnosti “kraja stoljeća”: Pjesništvo Vladimira Nazora i W. B. Yeatsa (Myth and Nationhood in the Turn-of-the-Century Literature -Vladimir Nazor and William Butler Yeats), Zagreb: NZMH, 1995, pp 219
· Kamov i rani Joyce (Kamov and Young Joyce) Zagreb: HFD, 1984, pp. 98
Edited books/ volumes:
· Myths of Europe: East of Venice (eds. Aidan O’Malley / Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan, European Journal of English Studies forthcoming 2013.
· Irsko ogledalo za hrvatsku književnost: teorijske pretpostavke, književne uposredbe, recepcija (Irish mirror for Croatian literature: theoretical premises, comparisons, reception) Gjurgjan, Ljiljana Ina; Klepač, Tihana (eds.)Zagreb : Filozofski fakultet, 2007
· Književni leksikon: Djela (Dunja Detoni Dujmić, Aleksandar Flaker, Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan, Krešimir Nemec, Mirko Tomasović, Gabrijela Vidan, Ivo Vidan, Vladimir Vratović, Mate Zorić, Viktor Žmegač (ur.).Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 2004
· William Butler Yeats: Izabrana djela, Zagreb: Školska knjiga, Biblioteka nobelovci, 2001
Articles/ book chapters:
· “The (Im)possibility of Women’s Bildungsroman”, Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. (forthcoming 2012).
· “Hamlet’s Stephen”. Joyce and Shakespeare“, ed. Laura Pelaschiar, Syracuse u. Press, forthcoming 2012
· “Laura – stereotipna kurtizana ili subverzivni lik u komediji Dundo Maroje”, Umjetnost riječi. LV (2011) ; 1-13
· ”The Politics of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensi, LV (2010), 3-19
· ‘Interculturality and Postcolonialism: Ethnicity, Nationalism, Cultural Memory and Identity‘ Racism, Slavery and Literature, W.Zach (ed.), P. Lang Publ. (2010) 199-208
· “Joyce’s Gnomic Epiphanies: Narrative strategies in Dubliners” / Siting America / Sighting Modernity: Essays in Honor of Sonja Bašić / Šesnić, Jelena (ur.). Zagreb: FFPress, 2010, 185-201.
· “Two Croatian Reinscriptions of Hamlet”, Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. 54 (2009), 169-181
· “Engleski romantizam: između reprezentacijske i semantičke funkcije jezika“, Romantizam i pitanja modernoga subjekta, Josip Užarević (ur.).Zagreb : Disput, 2008, 65-74.
· “Types of Intertextuality” Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. 53 (2008) ; 67-85
· “Teorijske pretpostavke za promišljanje artikulacije nacionalnoga identiteta ; primjenjivost postkolonijalne paradigme?” Irsko ogledalo za hrvatsku književnost: teorijske pretpostavke, književne usporedbe, recepcija, Gjurgjan, Ljiljana Ina ; Klepač, Tihana (eds). Zagreb : FF Press, 2007. 63-83.
· “The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Croatia“, The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe, Klaus Peter Jochum (ed.). London ; New York : University of London and Continuum Press, 2006. 162-174
· “‘More mud more crocodiles’ – the turn in the Portrait’s aestheticism“, Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. 47/48 (2004);.87-95
· “Od Eve do Laure”, Dani hvarskoga kazališta : hrvatska književnost i kazalište i avangarda dvadesetih godina 20. stoljeća / Nikola Batušić, Rafo Bogišić, Pavao Pavličić, Milan Moguš, Franjo Švelec, Josip Vončina (eds).Zagreb ; Split : HAZU ; Književni krug, 2004, 311-320
· “W.B. Yeats i dekadentizam”.Umjetnost riječi. 46 (2002) , 1/2; 87-98
· “Fetišizam, vampirizam i pogled Drugoga u drami Gospoda Glembajevi Miroslava Krleže” Dani hvarskoga kazališta : hrvatska književnost i kazalište dvadesetih godina 20. stoljeća.Zagreb, Split : HAZU ; Književni krug, 2002. 108-120.
· “Fetišizam, vampirizam i pogled Drugoga u drami Gospoda Glembajevi Miroslava Krleže” Dani hvarskoga kazališta : hrvatska književnost i kazalište dvadesetih godina 20. stoljeća.Zagreb, Split : HAZU ; Književni krug, 2002. 108-120.
· “Grofice kao nacionalni amblemi : Gospođa Walewska Milana Begovića i Grofica Cathleen W.B. Yeatsa”, Dani hvarskog kazališta : Književnost i kazalište hrvatske moderne – bilanca stoljeća I / Batušić, Nikola (ed.).Zagreb ; Split : HAZU ; Književni krug, 2001, 108-120
· “Narcis i čudovište: Romantičarski koncept Drugoga i suvremena ideologija”, Književna smotra. 33 (2001) , 2/3; 3-7
· “Yeats, Postcolonialism, and Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetics”, European Journal of English Studies. 3 (1999) , 3; 314-326
· “The Metaphoric and the Patriarchal in Women’s Writing”, Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. 42 (1997) ; 135-145
· “Intertekstualna funkcija mita u razdoblju fin de sieclea i u avangardi”, Umjetnost riječi. 36 (1992) , 1; 57-79
· “The Three Cases of Mother-Daughter Relationship in Croatian Literature”, Bradford occasional papers. 11 (1992); 59-72
· “Nationalism and Women in Croatia”, Journal of Gender Studies. 1 (1992) , 4; 521-526
Complete bibliography: http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=60866&lang=EN