Assoc. Prof. Tihana Klepač

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2022 Associate Professor, English Dept, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
2016 Assistant Professor, English Dept, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
2011 Endeavour Research Fellowship, School of Culture and Communications, Sveučilište u Melbourneu, Victoria, Australia
2010-2016 Assistant Lecturer
2008 PhD (Australian Myth in the Works of Henry Lawson and Barbara Baynton), University of Zagreb
2006 3-week course “Text and Context: Literature in 20th Century Britain”, Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, University of Edinburgh, UK
2005-2010 Assistant, English Dept, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
2000-2005 Translator/interpreter for English, Hrvatska elektroprivreda d.d.
1999 BA in English language and literature, University of Zagreb

Research interests
19th century Australian literature, women’s writing, life writing, postcolonial literary theory

Undergraduate courses
Introduction to the Study of English Literature
Turning Space into Place: Early Australian Literature
Cool Britannia? British Drama from 1956 – 2008

Graduate Courses
London in modern anglophone women’s literature

Professional membership
European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA); Croatian-Canadian Adecemic Society (Hrvatsko-kanadsko akademsko društvo, HKAD); Central European Association for Canadian Studies (CEACS); Croatian Association for American Studies (Hrvatsko udruženje za američke studije, HUAmS); Croatian Association for the Studies of English (Hrvatsko udruženje za anglističke studije, HDAS)

Selected bibliography

Book
Dancing in Red Shoes Barbara Baynton and the Australian Myth
, Zagreb: FFPress, 2020.

Editor
Grgas, Stipe, Tihana Klepač and Martina Domines Veliki (eds.): English Studies from Archives to Prospects: Volume 1 – Literature and Cultural Studies, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Gjurgjan, Ljiljana Ina and Tihana Klepač (ur.): Irsko ogledalo za hrvatsku književnost: teorijske pretpostavke, književne usporedbe, recepcija, Zagreb: FFPress, 2007.

Selected articles and chapters

“Mary Helena Fortune: An Independent Fly in the Webs of Victorian Society”, Brno Studies in English, 45 (2019), 1; 129-142

“The Croatian Version of Eric Idle’s Spamalot, an Homage” and Katja Radoš Perković, in: Contributions to Literature-on-Screen Studies and other Adaptation Studies, Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2018, 133-146

“Cinderella Writes Back: S. J. Duncan’s Mary Trent as Canada personified”, The Central European Journal of Canadian Studies, 12-13 (2018), 1; 103-118

“Henry Lawson’s Womanish Wail”, Umjetnost riječi: časopis za znanost o književnosti, LXII (2018), 1; 71-99

“The Australian Girl as an Innocuous Companion of the New Woman,” in: Grgas, Stipe, Tihana Klepač and Martina Domines Veliki (eds.): English Studies from Archives to Prospects: Volume 1 – Literature and Cultural Studies, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

“Discourse of difference: Rosa Campbell Praed’s My Australian Girlhood,” Brno Studies in English, 37 (2011); 2; 111-125
“Dijete izgubljeno u šikari: australski nacionalni identitet u romanu Takav je život Josepha Furphyja”; Umjetnost riječi, LIV (2010), 3-4; 175-200
“Zbilja je odraz jezika ili orječivanje australskog kontinenta”, Književna smotra, XLI (2009), 153(3); 11-22


Full bibliography: http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=269073&lang=EN