{"id":18951,"date":"2011-09-12T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18951"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:54:01","slug":"asst-prof-vanja-polic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18951&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Assoc. Prof. Vanja Poli\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Education:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
2001-2009 <\/span><\/td>\n\n

PhD in English, University of Zagreb.\u00a0Major field: British novel; Minor field: History of the novel.\u00a0Dissertation: \u201cRhetoric of Self-Legitimation in the Early 18th<\/sup>-century British Novel\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1999-2002 <\/span><\/td>\nAssociate B.A. Degree, Portuguese Studies, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995-2001 <\/span><\/td>\nB.A. (Hons) in English and Italian (Double Major), University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Academic Appointments:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2019-present <\/span><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Department of English, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013-2019 <\/span><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Department of English, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009-2012 <\/span><\/td>\nLecturer, Department of English, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001-2009 <\/span><\/td>\nTeaching and Research Assistant, Department of English, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Grants and Scholarships:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sep.-Dec. 2018<\/span><\/td>\nThe Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Fellowship Award, Brigham Young University, USA.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct. 2016<\/span><\/td>\nUniversity of Zagreb Research Grant. Research done at the University of Calgary.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2013<\/span><\/td>\nCentral European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS). Teacher Mobility Grant at the University of Graz, Austria.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct. 2011<\/span><\/td>\nResearch Grant. Faculty Enrichment Program Understanding Canada \u2013 Canadian Studies Program<\/em> by DFAIT Canada. Research done at the University of Calgary and University of Waterloo. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov. 2010 <\/span><\/td>\nResearch Grant. Central European Association for Canadian Studies. Research done at the Center for Canadian Studies, Masaryk University, Czechia.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July \u2013 Aug. 2004 <\/span><\/td>\nScottish Universities\u2019 International Summer School, U.K. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 2003 <\/span><\/td>\nBritish Scholarship Trust. Research done at the Queen Mary University of London, U.K. \u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Research interests:<\/strong>
\nCanadian literature and culture; British literature; history of the novel; genre literature and the western; postcolonialism
\n

\nUNIVERSITY TEACHING<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Undergraduate courses:<\/strong>
\nIntroduction to English Literature 1 and 2
\nContemporary Canadian Literature in English
\nThe Beginnings of the Modern Novel in 18th<\/sup>-Century England<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Graduate courses:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Architext in Postmodern British Literature<\/p>\n

Postgraduate courses:<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Marginal Cultures and Cultural Margins: Text and Image of Indigenous Australia and Canada
\nSecret lives in Alice Munro’s short stories<\/p>\n

Visiting Professor:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRepresentations of the Wild West Across the 49th<\/sup> Parallel: a Myth, a Performance, a Reality.\u201d The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, BYU, USA. December 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlasdair Gray’s Poor Things<\/em> as Intertext of Frankenstein<\/em>\u2026and so Much More.\u201d BYU, USA. November 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJ. M: Coetzee’s Foe<\/em> as a Postcolonial Counter-History of British Imperialism.\u201d University of Graz, Austria. December 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Intensive course for undergraduate and graduate students \u201cMulticulturalism in Canada\u201d. Masaryk University, Czech Republic. February 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cConstance Beresford-Howe: The Book of Eve.\u201d Center for the Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria. CEEPUS. May 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes Gender Matter? Copin<\/span>g with Aging and Dementia in Two Short Stories: Alice Munro\u2019s \u2018The Bear Come Over the Mountain\u2019 and Rohinton Mistry\u2019s \u2018Swimming Lessons\u2019.\u201d Center for the Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria. CEEPUS. May 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Canadian Wild West: A Myth Revamped.\u201d Lecture cycle Cultural Spaces of Canada \u2013 Espaces culturels du Canada<\/i>.\u00a0 University of Graz, Austria. May 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat Persistent Moodie Persona in Susanna Moodie\u2019s Roughing it in the Bush <\/em>(1852) and Margaret Atwood\u2019s The Journals of Susanna Moodie<\/em> (1970).\u201d University of Graz, Austria. November 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS<\/span><\/strong>:
\nRefereed Book (in Croatian):<\/strong>
\nIstinito, prirodno, razli\u010dito:<\/em> Autolegitimacijske strategije ranog britanskog romana<\/i>. \u00a0Zagreb: Hrvatsko filolo\u0161ko dru\u0161tvo, 2013.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>Refereed book chapters in English:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching Western Canadian Literature in the Croatian Context: A Case Study.\u201d Teaching Western American Literature<\/em>. Eds. B. Harrison and R. L. Tanglen. U of Nebraska P, 2020. 271-294. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDubravka Ugre\u0161i\u0107: Boundaries of (Post)Memory, Self and Nation.\u201d Women\u2019s Narratives and the Postmemory of Displacement in Central and Eastern Europe<\/em>. Ed. S. Mitroiu. palgrave macmillan, 2018. 173-196.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhite Civility and the Im\/Possibility of Crossing in Guy Vanderhaeghe\u2019s The Last Crossing<\/em>.\u201d The Errant Labor of the Humanities: The Festschrift Presented to Stipe Grgas on the Occasion of His 65th<\/sup> Birthday<\/em>. Eds. S. Cvek, B. Kne\u017eevi\u0107 and J. \u0160esni\u0107. FF Press, 2017. 49-63.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSisters Brothers Pack Heat: or How the Sisters Fared in the West\u201d, Facing the Crises: Anglophone Literature in the Postmodern World.<\/i> Eds. Lj. Matek and J. Poljak Rehlicki.\u00a0Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 128-146.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Refereed journal articles in English:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hauntings of Canada in Michael Crummey\u2019s Sweetland.<\/em>\u201d<\/a> London Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em>, Special Issue on Absent presence\/present absence: hauntings in Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois and Canadian literature and film. Eds. A. Handley, C. Morgan and V. Poli\u0107. 33 (autumn 2018): 77-93. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPerforming the Canadian West: Chuckwagons, Cowgirls, and New Westerns.\u201d<\/a> Cultural Studies \u2194 Critical Methodologies<\/em>, Special Issue on Reiterating the Canadian West. Ed. B. Rusted. First published electronically on November 24, 2015, print issue: 16.1 (2016): 40-47. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe reworkings of the Western from the northern side of the Medicine Line: Caple\u2019s In<\/em> Calamity\u2019s<\/em> Wake<\/em>, Vanderhaeghe\u2019s The<\/em> Englishman\u2019s<\/em> Boy<\/em> and Stenson\u2019s Lightning.<\/em>\u201d<\/a> British Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em>, Special Issue on New Voices on Canada. Eds. T. McCulloch and C. Kirkey. 28.2 (2015): 205-221. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOf Wests, Quests and Bullwhips: George Bowering’s “Caprice” Rides through the Western Genre.\u201d Umjetnost rije\u010di\/The Art of Words: A Journal of Literary, Theatre and Film Studies<\/em>. 58.3-4 (2014): 369-389.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTexture of Life<\/a>\u201d in Brno Studies Journal<\/em> (Masaryk University, the Czech Republic), vol. 37, Is. 2 (2011), pp. 159-171,<\/p>\n

\u201cTenderness of Space and Outlandish Woman: The Tenderness of the Wolves <\/em>and The<\/em> Outlande<\/em><\/a>r<\/a><\/em>\u201d, Review of International American Studies RIAS<\/em>, Vol. 5, Winter-Spring (1-2\/2011), pp.187-208.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Early English Novel: Tradition and Newspapers<\/a>\u201d in Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia<\/em> SRAZ (University of Zagreb, Croatia), vol. 55 (2010), pp. 19-48. Article title: \u201cThe Early English Novel: Tradition and Newspapers\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Refereed journal articles in Croatian:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPucaj!<\/i> Georgea Boweringa: neispri\u010dana pri\u010da o pokoravanju kanadskog Zapada\u201d. Umjetnost rije\u010di<\/i> (The art of Words: Journal for Literary Criticism, Performance Arts and Film<\/i>), LVII, 3\u20134 (July \u2013 December), 2013: 203-225.
\n\u201cStarost u \u2018Zimskom vrtu\u2019 Alice Munro\u201d. Knji\u017eevna smotra<\/i>, temat \u201c90-e\u201d. XLVI\/2014, 171 (1), 2014: 93-100.
\n\u201cProblem multikulturalnosti u noveli \u2018Poduka plivanja\u2019 Rohintona Mistryja\u201d. Knji\u017eevna smotra<\/i>, temat \u201cZnaci vremena: povodom 80 godina zagreba\u010dke anglistike\u201d. XLVI\/2014, 172 (2), 2014: 65-70.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Refereed Conference Papers (selected)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Panel presentation. \u201cTeaching Western Canadian Literature in the Croatian Context: A Case Study.\u201d Graphic Wests \u2013 55th<\/sup> Annual Conference<\/em>. Western Literature Association. Virtual conference. Oct. 21-24, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe Human, the Posthuman and Jeanette Winterson\u2019s Frankissstein: A Love Story<\/em>.\u201d 11th<\/sup> Brno International Conference of English, American & Canadian Studies: Breaking the Boundaries: In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions. <\/em>Masaryk University. Feb. 12-14, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe West Performed: Endicott\u2019s Little Shadows<\/em> and Great Shows of the Nations.\u201d Transformations: English-Canadian Writing in the Twenty-First Century \/ Le roman de l\u2019extr\u00eame-contemporain au Canada francophone<\/em>. University of Graz. Dec. 13-14, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cVanderhaeghe\u2019s A Good Man<\/em> and the of US-Canadian Relations at the End of the 19th<\/sup> Century.\u201d The Americas in Canada \/ Les Am\u00e9riques du Canada. <\/em>Canadian Studies Centre. Masaryk University. Oct. 20-21, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hauntings of Canada in Michael Crummey\u2019s Sweetland<\/em>.\u201d Panel Co-Organizer: Absent presence\/present absence: hauntings in Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois and Canadian literature and film. Canada 150. 42nd<\/sup> Annual Conference<\/em>. British Association for Canadian Studies. Apr. 20-22, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Come, Thou Grief\u2019: Jessica Grant’s Come Thou, Tortoise<\/em> and the Management of Grief.\u201d Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect: Indigenous, Canadian, and Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Writings in the Crossfire of a New Turn. <\/em>Banff Centre. Sep. 22-25, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Calamity’s Wake<\/em>: The Performance of a Woman in the Wild West.\u201d In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture.<\/em> University of Graz and Center of Inter-American Studies, June 2-4, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cStories of the West: a Myth Reappraisal.\u201d 41st<\/sup> Annual Conference<\/em>. \u00a0British Association for Canadian Studies. Apr. 21-23, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGuy Vanderhaeghe\u2019s The Last Crossing<\/em> between History and the Wild West Myth.\u201d 40th<\/sup><\/em> Anniversary<\/em> Conference<\/em>. British Association for Canadian Studies. Apr. 23-25, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Reworkings of the Cowboy Western from the Northern Side of the Medicine Line: Caple\u2019s In Calamity\u2019s Wake<\/em>, Stenson\u2019s Lightning<\/em> and Vanderhaeghe\u2019s The Englishman\u2019s Boy.<\/em>\u201d London Colloquium \u201c<\/strong>New Voices on Canada\u201d.<\/em> UCL Institute of the Americas and the British Association for Canadian Studies. July 11-12, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe Sisters Brothers<\/em> Pack Heat: or How the Sisters Fared in the West.\u201d Thirty-Five Years of English Studies in Osijek (35YESO)<\/em>. University of Osijek. Oct. 18-19, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTexture of Everyday Life.\u201d Living Between the Lines: Transgressive (Auto)Biography as Genre and Method. <\/em>Central European Association for Canadian Studies. Oct. 28-30, 2010<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Conference Organization:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Principal organizer. Page, Stage, Screen, Voice: A Canadian Studies Seminar<\/em>. Croatian-Canadian Academic Society. University of Zagreb and University of Osijek. May 12-14, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Principal Organizer. 7th<\/sup> Triennial International Conference of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies, Beyond the 49th<\/sup> Parallel: Canada and the North \u2013 Issues and Challenges \/ Au-del\u00e0 du 49\u00e8me parall\u00e8le : Le Canada et le Nord – Enjeux et d\u00e9fis.<\/em> Croatian-Canadian Academic Society. University of Zagreb. Oct. 9-11, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Invited Addresses:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Invited speaker. \u201cTeaching Canadian Literature and Culture to Croatian Students.\u201d Zagreb County Council for Teachers of Primary and Secondary Schools. Zagreb, Dec. 11, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Invited Speaker. \u201cAlice Munro\u2019s Short Stories: Open Secrets<\/em> and the Mastery of Short Story.\u201d Annual Festival of Arts and Education \u201cTre\u0107e uho Dubrovnik\u201d<\/em>. Center for Advanced Academic Studies, U Zagreb. Nov. 7, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roundtable Discussion. \u201cCanadian Literature in Croatia.\u201d University of Waterloo, October 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

Awards:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2017 Merit Award for strengthening Academic, Cultural and Intellectual Ties between Canada and Croatia (presented by the Canadian Embassy in Croatia)<\/span><\/p>\n

Journal Editorial Board Appointment:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2016-present\u00a0 Editorial Board, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Executive Boards and Presidency:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2013-2020 President, Croatian-Canadian Academic Society<\/span><\/p>\n

2013-2020 Advisory Board, Central European Association for Canadian Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

Community Outreach – Organization of Guest Lectures:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Er\u00edn Mour\u00e9, Kapusta<\/em> \u2013 poetry reading and performance. Booksa, a club for culture. Zagreb, May 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Homel (Concordia U). \u201cHow to Write a Canadian Best-Seller.\u201d Zagreb, April 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Ceri Morgan (Keele U). \u201cEden Robinson\u2019s \u2018Blood Sports\u2019.\u201d May 29 and 31, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomson Highway. \u201cCree World Views and Storytelling.\u201d City library Bogdan Ogrizovic<\/em>, Zagreb, April 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Mark Anthony Jarman (U New Brunswick), talk and reading: \u201cWord for Word.\u201d Booksa, a club for culture, Zagreb. November 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Martin L\u00f6schnigg (U Graz). \u201cIntertextuality in Recent Poetry on World War I: Remembering 1914-18.\u201d Zagreb, November 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Maria L\u00f6schnigg (U Graz). \u201cRewriting the British Canon: Djanet Sears\u2019s Harlem Duet and Shakespeare\u2019s Othello.\u201d Zagreb, November 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Linda Warley (U Waterloo). “Stories of the Road Allowance People as Multimodal Text.” U Zagreb, April 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Laura Moss (UBC). \u201cGreen Grass, Running Water.\u201d U Zagreb, October 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Mark Anthony Jarman (UNB) \u201cCanadian North.\u201d Booksa, a club for culture. Zagreb, June 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Zuzanna Szatanik (U Silesia). \u201cAnimal Poetry in Canada.\u201d U Zagreb, June 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Membership:<\/span><\/strong>
\nCCAS \u2013 Croatian-Canadian Academic Society<\/a> \/ CCAA Association Academique Croatie-Canade<\/a>\u00a0 (member since 2004; President since June 2013-2020); CEACS \u2013 Central European Association for Canadian Studies (2004-); HUAMS \u2013 Croatian Association for American Studies; European Association for American Studies EAAS (20013-); HDAS\/ESSE \u2013 Croatian Association for English Studies\/The European Society for the Study of English; Western Literature Association WLA (2014-)<\/span><\/p>\n

Full bibliography:<\/strong>
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Education: 2001-2009 PhD in English, University of Zagreb.\u00a0Major field: British novel; Minor field: History of the novel.\u00a0Dissertation: \u201cRhetoric of Self-Legitimation in the Early 18th-century British Novel\u201d 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-stranice-clanova-odsjeka-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18951"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41280,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18951\/revisions\/41280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}