CV
| 2018 | Associate Professor, English Dept, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb |
| 2014-2015 | 6-month Endeavour Research Fellowship, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
| 2011 | Assistant Professor, English Dept, University of Zagreb |
| 2008-2011 | Assistant Lecturer, English Dept, University of Zagreb |
| 2008 | PhD (Magical Realism and the Contemporary Aboriginal Novel), University of Zagreb |
| 2006-2007 | one year doctoral research grant (Endeavour-Australia Europe Award) at the Australia Research Institute, University of Curtin, Perth, WA, Australia |
| 2005 | MA (Literature of Australian Aborigines: From Oral to Postcolonial Discourse), University of Zagreb |
| 2002 | 5-month research grant at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen, Norway |
| 2001 | 3-week course “Text and Context: Literature in 20th Century Britain”, Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| 2000-2008 | Assistant, English Dept, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb |
| 1998 | BA in English and French language and literature, University of Zagreb |
| 1994-2000 | English and French translator/interpreter |
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Research interests
Postcolonial theory; theory of the fantastic; Australian literature and film; Australian Indigenous fiction and film; Anglophone literary and cinematic fantasy; contemporary British fiction; Anthropocene fiction and film; cli-fi
Undergraduate courses
Alternative Worlds in Contemporary British Fiction
The Anthropocene in British and Australian Fiction and Film
Graduate courses
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature
Narrative DissemiNation of the Land of Oz
Professional membership
European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) – board member; Australasian Humour Studies Network (AHNS); International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA); Centre for Popular Culture (Osijek)
Editorial board member
Umjetnost riječi/The Art of Words
Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA)
Peter Lang World Science Fiction Studies
Selected bibliography
Books:
Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction, Oxford: Peter Lang, ISBN 978-1-78707-200-8, 2017, 271 pp.
Razvoj književne proze australskih Aboridžina: od nevidljive do postkolonijalne priče (Development of Australian Aboriginal Fiction. From an indivisible to a postcolonial yarn) Zagreb: Biblioteka književna smotra, ISBN 988-953-296-036-5, 2011, 396 pp.
Recent refereed articles published in English:
– “Indigenous Futurism“, The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, ed. David Carter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 437-453.
– “Wording Mute Posthumanism in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book“, Antipodes 36:1 2022: 107-121. DOI: 10.1353/apo.2022.a906038
-“Unpunishable Crimes in Claire G. Coleman’s Futuristic Novel Terra Nullius” Humanities 11:2 47 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/h11020047
– “Native Apocalypse in Claire G. Coleman’s The Old Lie” Humanities 9:3, 69 (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030069
– “Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’“ Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature, eds. Maria Löschnigg and Malenie Braunecker, Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2020, pp. 185-200, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004408876_011
– “Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book“, Cli-fi: A Reader, eds. Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 217-223.
Full bibliography:
http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=247822&lang=EN
