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Dr. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107, Professor<\/span> CV<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Research interests<\/strong><\/span> Undergraduate courses<\/strong> Graduate courses<\/strong> Postgraduate courses \u00a0Miscellaneous Selected bibliography Editor<\/span>
\nE-mail: jsesnic@ffzg.hr<\/a><\/span>
\nOffice: B-018<\/span>
\nPhone: 6120-060<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n
\n 2019
\n<\/span><\/td>\nFull Professor, Department of English, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2018-2020
\n<\/span><\/td>\nChair, American Studies Program, Department of English, University of Zagreb <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2018.-
\n<\/span><\/td>\nPresident, Croatian Association for American Studies
\n<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 2012<\/span><\/td>\n Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Zagreb
\n<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 2011-2013<\/span><\/td>\n Head, Department of English, University of Zagreb
\n<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 2006<\/span><\/td>\n Assistant Professor<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2005<\/span><\/td>\n PhD in Philology (Zagreb University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2001<\/span><\/td>\n MA in Philology (Zagreb University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1997<\/span><\/td>\n BA, English and Comparative Literature (Zagreb University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nNineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; methodology of American Studies; trauma theory, memory studies, cultures of the Croatian anglophone diaspora <\/span><\/p>\n
\nAspects of American Romanticism; War, Reconstruction, Transformation: Am. Lit. 1860-1914; The Nineteenth-Century American Novel; The American Bilgunsroman of the 19th and 20th C.; American Women’s Writing in the 19th Century\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n
\nCroatian American Ethnic Literature; Contemporary US Ethnic Literatures; History and Memory in Contemporary American Novel; History and Methodology of American Studies 2
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\n<\/strong><\/span>Ethnic, National and Transnational Identities in an Era of Globalization; History and Memory in Contemporary American Novel; American Women’s Writing and Capitalist Modernity; Croatian American Writing and the Poetics of Transculturation; Images of American Politics in Literature and Visual Media
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\n<\/strong><\/span>– 2014-. Research team member, HRZZ-1543 project: A Cultural History of Capitalism: Britain, America, Croatia<\/span>
\n– 2013-: Co-organizer of the CAAS annual American Studies Workshops<\/span>
\n– 2016-: Vice-president of the AASSEE (Association for American Studies in Southeast Europe)<\/span>
\n– Member of editoral boards of Knji\u017eevna smotra<\/em> and Borderlands<\/em> (e-journal of the AASSEE)<\/span>
\n– June 2011: Participant, Forum for Young Researchers, European Science Foundation, National University of Ireland<\/span>
\n– 2010: Co-founder, secretary, Croatian Association for American Studies (HUAmS)<\/span>
\n– 2009\/10: Erasmus guest lecturer, American studies, University of Graz<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>Books<\/span>
\n– Mra\u010dne \u017eene. Prikazi \u017eenstva u ameri\u010dkoj knji\u017eevnosti (1820.-1860.)<\/em>. Zagreb: Leykam International, 2010. (Dark Ladies: Figures of Femininity in American Literature, 1820-1860)<\/span>
\n– From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature<\/em>. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nCollections of essays
\n<\/span>– The Errant Labor of the Humanities: Festschrift Presented to Stipe Grgas<\/em>. Ed. Sven Cvek, Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107 and Jelena \u0160esni\u0107. Zagreb: FF press, 2017.<\/span>
\n– Siting America\/ Sighting Modernity: Essays in Honor of Sonja Ba\u0161i\u0107<\/em>. Ed. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107. Zagreb: FF Press, 2010.
\n Journals
\n<\/span>– \u0160esni\u0107, Jelena, and Sven Cvek, eds. Working Papers in American Studies<\/em>, Vol. III. The (Un)usable Pasts in American Studies. Zagreb: Hrvatsko udru\u017eenje za ameri\u010dke studije\/Croatian Association for American Studies, 2018.
\nhttp:\/\/www.huams.hr\/wpas<\/a>
\n– \u0160esni\u0107, Jelena and Sven Cvek, eds. Working Papers in American Studies<\/em>. Vol. II. Quarter of a Century after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Perspectives and Directions in Croatian and Regional American Studies. Zagreb: Hrvatsko udru\u017eenje za ameri\u010dke studije, 2016.<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.huams.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wpas_v2_huams_2016.pdf<\/a><\/span>
\n– Knji\u017eevna smotra<\/em>. Znaci vremena. Povodom 80 godina zagreba\u010dke anglistike. Ur. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107 i Jelena \u0160esni\u0107. XLVI\/2014, 172 (2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n