Education:
| 2001-2009 |
PhD in English, University of Zagreb. Major field: British novel; Minor field: History of the novel. Dissertation: “Rhetoric of Self-Legitimation in the Early 18th-century British Novel” |
| 1999-2002 | Associate B.A. Degree, Portuguese Studies, University of Zagreb |
| 1995-2001 | B.A. (Hons) in English and Italian (Double Major), University of Zagreb |
Academic Appointments:
| 2019-present | Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Zagreb |
| 2013-2019 | Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Zagreb |
| 2009-2012 | Lecturer, Department of English, University of Zagreb |
| 2001-2009 | Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of English, University of Zagreb |
Grants and Scholarships:
| Sep.-Dec. 2018 | The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Fellowship Award, Brigham Young University, USA. |
| Oct. 2016 | University of Zagreb Research Grant. Research done at the University of Calgary. |
| May 2013 | Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS). Teacher Mobility Grant at the University of Graz, Austria. |
| Oct. 2011 | Research Grant. Faculty Enrichment Program Understanding Canada – Canadian Studies Program by DFAIT Canada. Research done at the University of Calgary and University of Waterloo. |
| Nov. 2010 | Research Grant. Central European Association for Canadian Studies. Research done at the Center for Canadian Studies, Masaryk University, Czechia. |
| July – Aug. 2004 | Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, U.K. |
| Feb. 2003 | British Scholarship Trust. Research done at the Queen Mary University of London, U.K. |
Research interests:
Canadian literature and culture; British literature; history of the novel; genre literature and the western; postcolonialism
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Undergraduate courses:
Introduction to English Literature 1 and 2
Contemporary Canadian Literature in English
The Beginnings of the Modern Novel in 18th-Century England
Graduate courses:
Architext in Postmodern British Literature
Postgraduate courses:
Marginal Cultures and Cultural Margins: Text and Image of Indigenous Australia and Canada
Secret lives in Alice Munro’s short stories
Visiting Professor:
“Representations of the Wild West Across the 49th Parallel: a Myth, a Performance, a Reality.” The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, BYU, USA. December 2018.
“Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things as Intertext of Frankenstein…and so Much More.” BYU, USA. November 2018.
“J. M: Coetzee’s Foe as a Postcolonial Counter-History of British Imperialism.” University of Graz, Austria. December 2017.
Intensive course for undergraduate and graduate students “Multiculturalism in Canada”. Masaryk University, Czech Republic. February 2014.
“Constance Beresford-Howe: The Book of Eve.” Center for the Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria. CEEPUS. May 2013.
“Does Gender Matter? Coping with Aging and Dementia in Two Short Stories: Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Come Over the Mountain’ and Rohinton Mistry’s ‘Swimming Lessons’.” Center for the Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria. CEEPUS. May 2013.
“The Canadian Wild West: A Myth Revamped.” Lecture cycle Cultural Spaces of Canada – Espaces culturels du Canada. University of Graz, Austria. May 2013.
“That Persistent Moodie Persona in Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush (1852) and Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970).” University of Graz, Austria. November 2012.
SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
Refereed Book (in Croatian):
Istinito, prirodno, različito: Autolegitimacijske strategije ranog britanskog romana. Zagreb: Hrvatsko filološko društvo, 2013.
Refereed book chapters in English:
“Teaching Western Canadian Literature in the Croatian Context: A Case Study.” Teaching Western American Literature. Eds. B. Harrison and R. L. Tanglen. U of Nebraska P, 2020. 271-294.
“Dubravka Ugrešić: Boundaries of (Post)Memory, Self and Nation.” Women’s Narratives and the Postmemory of Displacement in Central and Eastern Europe. Ed. S. Mitroiu. palgrave macmillan, 2018. 173-196.
“White Civility and the Im/Possibility of Crossing in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing.” The Errant Labor of the Humanities: The Festschrift Presented to Stipe Grgas on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Eds. S. Cvek, B. Knežević and J. Šesnić. FF Press, 2017. 49-63.
“Sisters Brothers Pack Heat: or How the Sisters Fared in the West”, Facing the Crises: Anglophone Literature in the Postmodern World. Eds. Lj. Matek and J. Poljak Rehlicki. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 128-146.
Refereed journal articles in English:
“The Hauntings of Canada in Michael Crummey’s Sweetland.” London Journal of Canadian Studies, Special Issue on Absent presence/present absence: hauntings in Québécois and Canadian literature and film. Eds. A. Handley, C. Morgan and V. Polić. 33 (autumn 2018): 77-93.
“Performing the Canadian West: Chuckwagons, Cowgirls, and New Westerns.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Special Issue on Reiterating the Canadian West. Ed. B. Rusted. First published electronically on November 24, 2015, print issue: 16.1 (2016): 40-47.
“The reworkings of the Western from the northern side of the Medicine Line: Caple’s In Calamity’s Wake, Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy and Stenson’s Lightning.” British Journal of Canadian Studies, Special Issue on New Voices on Canada. Eds. T. McCulloch and C. Kirkey. 28.2 (2015): 205-221.
“Of Wests, Quests and Bullwhips: George Bowering’s “Caprice” Rides through the Western Genre.” Umjetnost riječi/The Art of Words: A Journal of Literary, Theatre and Film Studies. 58.3-4 (2014): 369-389.
“Texture of Life” in Brno Studies Journal (Masaryk University, the Czech Republic), vol. 37, Is. 2 (2011), pp. 159-171,
“Tenderness of Space and Outlandish Woman: The Tenderness of the Wolves and The Outlander”, Review of International American Studies RIAS, Vol. 5, Winter-Spring (1-2/2011), pp.187-208.
“The Early English Novel: Tradition and Newspapers” in Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia SRAZ (University of Zagreb, Croatia), vol. 55 (2010), pp. 19-48. Article title: “The Early English Novel: Tradition and Newspapers”.
Refereed journal articles in Croatian:
“Pucaj! Georgea Boweringa: neispričana priča o pokoravanju kanadskog Zapada”. Umjetnost riječi (The art of Words: Journal for Literary Criticism, Performance Arts and Film), LVII, 3–4 (July – December), 2013: 203-225.
“Starost u ‘Zimskom vrtu’ Alice Munro”. Književna smotra, temat “90-e”. XLVI/2014, 171 (1), 2014: 93-100.
“Problem multikulturalnosti u noveli ‘Poduka plivanja’ Rohintona Mistryja”. Književna smotra, temat “Znaci vremena: povodom 80 godina zagrebačke anglistike”. XLVI/2014, 172 (2), 2014: 65-70.
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Refereed Conference Papers (selected)
Panel presentation. “Teaching Western Canadian Literature in the Croatian Context: A Case Study.” Graphic Wests – 55th Annual Conference. Western Literature Association. Virtual conference. Oct. 21-24, 2020.
“The Human, the Posthuman and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story.” 11th Brno International Conference of English, American & Canadian Studies: Breaking the Boundaries: In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions. Masaryk University. Feb. 12-14, 2020.
“The West Performed: Endicott’s Little Shadows and Great Shows of the Nations.” Transformations: English-Canadian Writing in the Twenty-First Century / Le roman de l’extrême-contemporain au Canada francophone. University of Graz. Dec. 13-14, 2019.
“Vanderhaeghe’s A Good Man and the of US-Canadian Relations at the End of the 19th Century.” The Americas in Canada / Les Amériques du Canada. Canadian Studies Centre. Masaryk University. Oct. 20-21, 2017.
“The Hauntings of Canada in Michael Crummey’s Sweetland.” Panel Co-Organizer: Absent presence/present absence: hauntings in Québécois and Canadian literature and film. Canada 150. 42nd Annual Conference. British Association for Canadian Studies. Apr. 20-22, 2017.
“‘Come, Thou Grief’: Jessica Grant’s Come Thou, Tortoise and the Management of Grief.” Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect: Indigenous, Canadian, and Québécois Writings in the Crossfire of a New Turn. Banff Centre. Sep. 22-25, 2016.
“In Calamity’s Wake: The Performance of a Woman in the Wild West.” In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. University of Graz and Center of Inter-American Studies, June 2-4, 2016.
“Stories of the West: a Myth Reappraisal.” 41st Annual Conference. British Association for Canadian Studies. Apr. 21-23, 2016.
“Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing between History and the Wild West Myth.” 40th Anniversary Conference. British Association for Canadian Studies. Apr. 23-25, 2015.
“The Reworkings of the Cowboy Western from the Northern Side of the Medicine Line: Caple’s In Calamity’s Wake, Stenson’s Lightning and Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy.” London Colloquium “New Voices on Canada”. UCL Institute of the Americas and the British Association for Canadian Studies. July 11-12, 2014.
“The Sisters Brothers Pack Heat: or How the Sisters Fared in the West.” Thirty-Five Years of English Studies in Osijek (35YESO). University of Osijek. Oct. 18-19, 2012.
“Texture of Everyday Life.” Living Between the Lines: Transgressive (Auto)Biography as Genre and Method. Central European Association for Canadian Studies. Oct. 28-30, 2010.
Conference Organization:
Principal organizer. Page, Stage, Screen, Voice: A Canadian Studies Seminar. Croatian-Canadian Academic Society. University of Zagreb and University of Osijek. May 12-14, 2018.
Principal Organizer. 7th Triennial International Conference of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies, Beyond the 49th Parallel: Canada and the North – Issues and Challenges / Au-delà du 49ème parallèle : Le Canada et le Nord – Enjeux et défis. Croatian-Canadian Academic Society. University of Zagreb. Oct. 9-11, 2015.
Invited Addresses:
Invited speaker. “Teaching Canadian Literature and Culture to Croatian Students.” Zagreb County Council for Teachers of Primary and Secondary Schools. Zagreb, Dec. 11, 2017.
Invited Speaker. “Alice Munro’s Short Stories: Open Secrets and the Mastery of Short Story.” Annual Festival of Arts and Education “Treće uho Dubrovnik”. Center for Advanced Academic Studies, U Zagreb. Nov. 7, 2014.
Roundtable Discussion. “Canadian Literature in Croatia.” University of Waterloo, October 2011.
Awards:
2017 Merit Award for strengthening Academic, Cultural and Intellectual Ties between Canada and Croatia (presented by the Canadian Embassy in Croatia)
Journal Editorial Board Appointment:
2016-present Editorial Board, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review
Executive Boards and Presidency:
2013-2020 President, Croatian-Canadian Academic Society
2013-2020 Advisory Board, Central European Association for Canadian Studies
Community Outreach – Organization of Guest Lectures:
Erín Mouré, Kapusta – poetry reading and performance. Booksa, a club for culture. Zagreb, May 2018.
David Homel (Concordia U). “How to Write a Canadian Best-Seller.” Zagreb, April 2018.
Dr. Ceri Morgan (Keele U). “Eden Robinson’s ‘Blood Sports’.” May 29 and 31, 2017.
Tomson Highway. “Cree World Views and Storytelling.” City library Bogdan Ogrizovic, Zagreb, April 2017.
Dr. Mark Anthony Jarman (U New Brunswick), talk and reading: “Word for Word.” Booksa, a club for culture, Zagreb. November 2016.
Dr. Martin Löschnigg (U Graz). “Intertextuality in Recent Poetry on World War I: Remembering 1914-18.” Zagreb, November 2016.
Dr. Maria Löschnigg (U Graz). “Rewriting the British Canon: Djanet Sears’s Harlem Duet and Shakespeare’s Othello.” Zagreb, November 2016.
Dr. Linda Warley (U Waterloo). “Stories of the Road Allowance People as Multimodal Text.” U Zagreb, April 2015.
Dr. Laura Moss (UBC). “Green Grass, Running Water.” U Zagreb, October 2014.
Dr. Mark Anthony Jarman (UNB) “Canadian North.” Booksa, a club for culture. Zagreb, June 2014.
Dr. Zuzanna Szatanik (U Silesia). “Animal Poetry in Canada.” U Zagreb, June 2014.
Membership:
CCAS – Croatian-Canadian Academic Society / CCAA Association Academique Croatie-Canade (member since 2004; President since June 2013-2020); CEACS – Central European Association for Canadian Studies (2004-); HUAMS – Croatian Association for American Studies; European Association for American Studies EAAS (20013-); HDAS/ESSE – Croatian Association for English Studies/The European Society for the Study of English; Western Literature Association WLA (2014-)
Full bibliography:
http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=247811&lang=EN