{"id":18953,"date":"2011-09-13T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18953"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:34:22","slug":"asst-prof-iva-polak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18953&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Assoc. Prof. Iva Polak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CV<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2018<\/span><\/td>\nAssociate Professor, English Dept, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014-2015<\/span><\/td>\n6-month Endeavour Research Fellowship, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/span><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, English Dept, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008-2011<\/span><\/td>\nAssistant Lecturer, English Dept, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008 <\/span><\/td>\nPhD (Magical Realism and the Contemporary Aboriginal Novel<\/em>), University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006-2007 <\/span><\/td>\none year doctoral research grant (Endeavour-Australia Europe Award) at the Australia Research Institute, University of Curtin, Perth, WA, Australia<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005 <\/span><\/td>\nMA (Literature of Australian Aborigines: From Oral to Postcolonial Discourse)<\/em>, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/span><\/td>\n5-month research grant at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen, Norway<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001 <\/span><\/td>\n3-week course \u201cText and Context: Literature in 20th<\/sup> Century Britain\u201d, Scottish Universities\u2019 International Summer School, University of Edinburgh, UK<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000-2008 <\/span><\/td>\nAssistant, English Dept, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998 <\/span><\/td>\nBA in English and French language and literature, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994-2000 <\/span><\/td>\nEnglish and French translator\/interpreter<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Office: <\/strong>B-015
\nOffice hours: <\/strong>Fri 2:30-3:30 pm and Zoom by appointment<\/p>\n

Research interests<\/span><\/strong>
\nPostcolonial 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; environmental humanities<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Undergraduate courses<\/strong>
\nAlternative Worlds in Contemporary British Fiction
\nThe Anthropocene in British and Australian Fiction and Film
\nReading Literature, Media, Culture
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\nGraduate courses<\/strong>
\nA Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature
\nNarrative DissemiNation of the Land of Oz
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Professional membership<\/strong>
\nEuropean Association for Studies of Australia (EASA)<\/a> – chair
\nAustralasian Humour Studies Network (AHNS) – member
\nInternational Association of the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) – member
\nCentre for Popular Culture (Osijek) – member<\/span><\/p>\n

Editorial board member
\n<\/strong><\/span>Umjetnost rije\u010di\/The Art of Words<\/a><\/em>
\n<\/em><\/a> Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA)<\/a>
\n<\/em>Peter Lang World Science Fiction Studies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Selected bibliography<\/strong>
\nBooks:
\nFuturistic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction<\/em><\/a>, Oxford: Peter Lang, ISBN 978-1-78707-200-8, 2017, 271 pp.
\nRazvoj knji\u017eevne proze australskih Aborid\u017eina: od nevidljive do postkolonijalne pri\u010de<\/em><\/a> (Development of Australian Aboriginal Fiction. From an indivisible to a postcolonial yarn<\/em>) Zagreb: Biblioteka knji\u017eevna<\/em> smotra, ISBN 988-953-296-036-5, 2011, 396 pp.
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Recent refereed articles published in English:
\n– “Indigenous Futurism\u201c<\/a>, The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel<\/em>, ed. David Carter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 437-453.
\n– “Wording Mute Posthumanism in Alexis Wright\u2019s The Swan Book<\/em>\u201c, Antipodes<\/em> 36:1 2022: 107-121. DOI: 10.1353\/apo.2022.a906038<\/a>
\n-“Unpunishable Crimes in Claire G. Coleman\u2019s Futuristic Novel Terra Nullius<\/i>” Humanities<\/em> 11:2  47 (2022) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/h11020047<\/a>
\n– “Native Apocalypse in Claire G. Coleman\u2019s The Old Lie<\/i>” Humanities<\/em> 9:3, 69 (2020) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/h9030069<\/a>
\n– “Un\/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright\u2019s The Swan Book<\/em> and Ellen van Neerven\u2019s ‘Water’\u201c Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature<\/em>, eds. Maria L\u00f6schnigg and Malenie Braunecker, Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2020, pp. 185-200, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/9789004408876_011<\/a>
\n– “Alexis Wright’s <\/a>The Swan Book\u201c, Cli-fi: A Reader<\/em>, eds. Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 217-223.<\/p>\n

\n<\/span>Full bibliography:
\nhttp:\/\/bib.irb.hr\/lista-radova?autor=247822<\/a>&lang=EN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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