Editorial board
RUŽICA PŠIHISTAL, Editor-in-Chief
Ružica Pšihistal is Full Professor of Croatian literature at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. Her PhD dissertation and many of her articles focus on the work of Marko Marulić, a canonical Croatian author and European Renaissance humanist, with special emphasis on his biblically inspired epics. Her research interests include folklore literature, Humanism and Renaissance literature, as well as theoretical and literary-historical aspects of allegory across the disciplines of literature, theology, and philosophy. Her research also covers folklore collecting fieldwork and a wide variety of literary-cultural topics.
Web
MOIRA P. BAKER
Moira P. Baker is Full Professor of English with Tenure at the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences, Radford University, Virginia, USA. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York. She received her MA and PhD at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in Renaissance Literature. She was the founder and long-time Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Radford University, where she has taught for over thirty years. Her teaching and research interests include Renaissance cultural studies, feminist theory, women’s literature, critical theory, and international women’s issues..
Web
STJEPAN BLAŽETIN
Stjepan Blažetin (Blazsetin István), poet, literary critic, literary theorist and historian, Croatian studies expert, and translator, is Head of the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pecs, Hungary, and director of the Scientific Institute of Croats of Hungary. He received his PhD (topic: Modernity Structures in the Corpus of Croatian Poetry in Hungary) from the University of Osijek. His academic work focuses on comparative research of Croatian-Hungarian literary and cultural ties.
STEPHANIE JUG
Stephanie Jug is assistant professor of German literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her doctoral dissertation explores literary motifs. Her other major research interest is regional German literature from Slavonia. Furthermore, she teaches a variety of courses in German literature from the 19th and 20th century including romanticism, literature before the revolution in the first half of the 19th century, poetry of the 20th century, contemporary short prose, as well as cultural and media aspects of literature.
Web
SANJA JUKIĆ
Sanja Jukić is Associate Professor at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. Her major research interests are in the field of media stylistics, in particular in the stylistic research into the structure of a subject and intermedial strategies, which was the topic of her PhD dissertation Stylistics of the Media Subject in Contemporary Croatian Poetry. Her research is primarily focused on twentieth-century Croatian literature and its contact with (East) European literature, especially through the stylistic phenomenon of Pannonianism.
Web
ZOLTÁN MEDVE
Zoltán Medve is Full Professor at the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. He teaches contemporary Hungarian literature, comparative literature, and translation studies courses. He has won numerous national and international grants and awards for translation, and has participated in international literary-cultural projects. His main research interests lie in contemporary Hungarian fiction, contemporary comparative studies of Croatian and Hungarian literature, and the theory and practice of translation.
Web
BILJANA OKLOPČIĆ
Biljana Oklopčić is Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. Her research interests include American literature of the 20th century, American modernism, popular culture, popular fiction, Marija Jurić Zagorka’s oeuvre, stereotypes in literature and culture, women’s and gender studies, and literature of the American South, in particular the works of William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams (the topic of her PhD dissertation and major publications). She teaches core literary theory courses and specialized courses such as Literature of the American South, Popular Fiction, and American Modernism.
Web
KRISTINA PETERNAI ANDRIĆ
Kristina Peternai Andrić is Full Professor at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and External Associate at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Osijek, Croatia. She teaches courses in literary theory, theories of culture, and theories of identity, which was the topic of her doctoral dissertation Name and the Question of Identity in Literary Theory. Her main research interests are in classical and postclassical narratology, identity politics, ethical issues in literature, and disability studies.
Web
TIMOTHY PETETE
Timothy Petete is Associate Professor of English and Graduate Program Director of Literary Studies at the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma, USA. He holds a BA in Native American Studies from the University of Oklahoma, an MA in American Indian Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a PhD in English from the University of Oklahoma. His areas of specialization include Native American literature and Contemporary American literature. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in literature and undergraduate courses in composition. His literature courses examine social, political, and cultural realities, whereas his composition courses engage language, technology, and popular culture.
Web
KRYSTYNA PIENIĄŻEK-MARKOVIĆ
Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković, is Associate Professor at the Institute of Slavic Philology and Vice-Dean for Internal and International Cooperation at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She is a historian of literature and culture with expertise in Slavic, Croatian, and Polish studies. Her dissertation and habilitation thesis explored the work of A.B. Šimić and Croatian poetry in the period 1990–2010, respectively. Her research interests include Croatian literature and culture from Romanticism to the present, Croatian memory and identity discourse in travel texts, and culinary narratives. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne.
Web
GORAN REM
Goran Rem, literary and media theorist and historian, is Full Professor with Tenure at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. He teaches courses in literary theory, stylistics, and contemporary Croatian literature. He has authored dozens of books and articles, and has won many awards for his research. His main research interests include the poetics of poetry, contemporary Croatian poetry (the topic of his MA thesis and PhD dissertation), general and historical poetics, media stylistics, and filmology.
Web
IVAN TROJAN
Ivan Trojan is Associate Professor at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. He teaches mainly courses in theatre studies, the primary area of his research, at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels. He received his PhD from the University of Zagreb with the thesis entitled The Dramatic, Theatrical, and Cultural-Political Work of Milan Ogrizović and the Viennese Modernism. He has authored five books and more than fifty research and general articles in the field of performing arts. He is the 2010 recipient of the Julije Benešić Success Award, and also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Književna revija journal.
Web
Jadranka Zlomislić
Jadranka Zlomislić is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where she teaches courses related to American and British culture. Her doctoral dissertation and major publications focus on the study of literary works belonging to the genre of American academic fiction. She is a native speaker of English and Croatian and areas of her teaching and research interest include American and British cultural studies, as well as the language, literature, and culture of the English-speaking world.
Web
TIHOMIR ŽIVIĆ
Tihomir Živić is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Physical Education at the Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where he teaches courses in English Studies and German Studies. He received his Ph. D. from Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek with a thesis on Stephen J. Greenblatt’s New Historicism. The areas of his interest are American Studies, Digital Humanities, Cultural Poetics and Literary Studies, being the topics of his scientific and professional books and the papers in the fields of Philology and Literary Criticism. He is a member of the Croatian Association for American Studies (HUAmS) and an associate of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU).