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CV<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Dr Sonja Ba\u0161i\u0107 was awarded PhD from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb with her thesis \u201eEdgar Allan Poe in Croatian and Serbian Literatures\u201c. She became an assistant professor in 1971, associate professor in 1978, professor in 1984 (reconfirmed in 1996). She obtained the honorary title of professor emerita in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n Professor Ba\u0161i\u0107 co-founded the Chair of American Studies (1982) and Postgraduate American Studies program (1986), both of which she headed from 1992, even at the time when the postgraduate program had to be transferred from Dubrovnik to Zagreb due to the Homeland War. The Postgraduate American Studies program was resumed from 1997-2004.<\/span><\/p>\n 1992-1994 Professor Ba\u0161i\u0107 served as Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy (today the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), as first woman ever to be elected to such an office. In 1991 she was awarded the Faculty’s highest honor, the Charter of the Faculty of Philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n During her career Professor Ba\u0161i\u0107 taught at several renowned universities in the United States in particular: Columbia University and New York University (New York), as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University (grant by the American Council of Learned Societies). As guest professor she held a seminar in modern American novel at New York University (1985), while in the spring semester of the same year she taught two courses at A&M University, Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n Sonja Ba\u0161i\u0107 is a member of several professional associations in Croatia (Matica hrvatska, Hrvatsko dru\u0161tvo knji\u017eevnih prevodilaca) and abroad (James Joyce Foundation, European Association for American Studies). She has served on editorial board of several journals (first as secretary, later as member of the editorial board of Knji\u017eevna smotra<\/em> since its inception; member of the editorial council of Journal of Modern Literature<\/em>; member of the editorial board of SRAZ<\/em>). From 1966-1973 she served as a secretary of Croatian PEN Centre in which capacity she was one of the signatories of the Declaration concerning the name and the status of the Croatian language. After the breakdown of the Croatian Spring movement and unable to intervene on behalf of the imprisoned authors, she resigned her office in 1973 together with Antun \u0160oljan, the then President of Croatian PEN. She is one of the twelve members of the assembly of IUC Dubrovnik whose signatures led to the renewal of the Institute’s work in Croatia.<\/span><\/p>\n As a preeminent translator of literature Sonja Ba\u0161i\u0107 has excelled in particular with her translations of more than a score of plays performed at the theatres across Croatia.<\/span><\/p>\n As a teacher Professor Ba\u0161i\u0107 initiated and practised an innovative, interactive and seminar-based format of teaching, decades before it became stipulated by the Bologna reform, making huge impact with her numerous and varied courses in English and American literature of the nineteenth and especially the twentieth century on generations of students in English and American studies. She has established and successfully maintained links with colleagues at complementary American Studies programs and chairs abroad, as testified by the roster of chairs or institutes of American Studies in Graz, M\u00fcnchen, Mainz, Berlin, Oslo, Bergen, Paris and several US universities, respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Professor Ba\u0161i\u0107’s research interests come to the fore not only in her publications, numerous guest appearances and presentations at home and abroad but even more so in the research done within the purview of the two research projects sponsored by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports: \u201eSubversions of Modernism: Joyce and Faulkner\u201c (1991-96); \u201eRelations between Croatian and Anglophone Literatures in the Twentieth Century\u201c (1997-2002).<\/span><\/p>\n Research interests<\/strong> Undergraduate courses<\/strong> Graduate courses<\/strong> Selected bibliography \u00a0Contributor and editor<\/strong> Essays and journal articles<\/strong>
Professor Ba\u0161i\u0107 is focused on American literature of the late 19th and 20th century, with particular emphasis on the study of William Faulkner’s work. She has made major contributions to the study of James Joyce, while her abiding interests have led her to engage with historical and theoretical aspects of Anglo-American modernism and the theory of narration.<\/span><\/p>\n
The American Nineteen-Sixties: Literature and Culture<\/span><\/p>\n
Anglo-American Modernism: Fiction and Poetry<\/span><\/p>\n
Books
<\/strong>– Veliki anglo-ameri\u010dki pripovjeda\u010di na\u0161eg doba<\/em>. Biblioteka knji\u017eevna<\/em> smotra, ur. Irena Luk\u0161i\u0107, Zagreb: Hrvatsko filolo\u0161ko dru\u0161tvo, 2012.
– Subverzije modernizma: Joyce i Faulkner<\/em>. Zagreb: Biblioteka L, Zavod za znanost o knji\u017eevnosti\u00a0 Filozofskoga fakulteta Sveu\u010dili\u0161ta u Zagrebu, 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cOsnovne odrednice u razvoju ameri\u010dkog pjesni\u0161tva.\u201d(Uvod)\u00a0 i komentari uz 52 ameri\u010dka pjesnika. Zlatna knjiga ameri\u010dkog pjesni\u0161tva.<\/em> Ur. Antun \u0160oljan. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, 1980.
\u2022 \u201c\u017divot i djelo Williama Faulknera.\u201d Izabrana djela Williama Faulknera<\/em>. Ur. \u0160ima Balen. Zagreb: Globus, 1977: 15-109. (Second edition 1988: 201-96)
\u2022 Editor, preface, annotations. Edgar Allan Poe: Djela.<\/em> Vol. 1-3. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 1986.
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\u2022 \u201cHenry James Between Old and New. An Interpretation of The Wings of the Dove.\u201d SRAZ<\/em> 41-42 (1976): 333-75.
\u2022 \u201cFrom James\u2019 Figures to Genette\u2019s Figures<\/em>. Point of View and Narratology.\u201d Revue francaise d’etudes americaines<\/em> 17 (1983): 201-15.
\u2022 \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Narrative Discourse. Mediation and Mimesis.\u201d New Directions in Faulkner Studies<\/em>. Ed. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1984. 302-22.
\u2022 \u201cTransparent or Opaque? The Reader of Ulysses <\/em>Between Involvement and Distanciation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 International Perspectives on James Joyce<\/em>. Ed. Gottlieb Gaiser. Troy, NY: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1986. 106-32.
\u2022 \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Narrative: Between Involvement and Distancing.\u201d Faulkner\u2019s Discourse: An International Symposium<\/em>. Ed. Lothar Honnighausen. Tubingen: M. Niemeyer Verlag, 1989. 141-48.
\u2022 \u201cA Book of Many Uncertainties: Joyce’s Dubliners<\/em>.\u201d Style <\/em>25.3 (1991): 350-77.
\u2022 \u201cHemingway and Emotion.\u201d Sentimentality in Modem Literature and Culture<\/em>. Ed. Winfried Herget. Tubingen: Gunther Narr Verlag, 1991. 187-205.
\u2022 \u201cSlobodni neupravni stil (s primjerima iz Jovcea):\u201d Umjetnost rije\u010di<\/em> 35.2 (1991): 107-34.
\u2022 \u201cParody and Metafiction: Ulysses<\/em> and The Hamlet<\/em>.\u201d Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. T\u00fcbingen: Francke Verlag, 1993. 41-56.
\u2022 \u201cHistory as Vampire. James Joyce, William Faulkner and Miroslav Krle\u017ea.\u201d Transatlantic Encounters. Studies in European-American Relations. Presented to Winfried Herget<\/em>. Ed. Udo J. Hebel and Karl Ortseifen. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995. 245-56.
\u2022 \u201cPoe in Croatia.\u201d Poe Abroad: Influence. Reputation. Affinities<\/em>. Ed. Lois Davis Vines. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.
\u2022 \u201cFaulkner\u2019s Myriad.\u201d Etudes faulkneriennes <\/em>2 (2000): 43-48.
\u2022 \u201cThe Reception of James Joyce in Croatia.\u201d The Reception of James Joyce in Europe. Volume I: Germany, Northern and East Central Europe.<\/em> Ed. Geert Lernout and Wim Van Mierlo. London, New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. 178-86.
\u2022\u00a0 \u201cPerfume of texts, subversive embraces. A personal retrospect involving ‘formalist’ readings of Ulysses<\/em>.\u201d SRAZ<\/em> 50 (2005): 133-44. (Also published in Bloomsday 100, 19th<\/sup> International James Joyce Symposium<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Niall O’Driscoll. Dublin, The Joyce Centre, 2005. CD-ROM.)<\/span><\/p>\n