prof. dr. sc. Biljana Oklopčić

Biljana Oklopčić, PhD, is Professor in the Department of English at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. She teaches courses in literature at undergraduate and doctoral levels. As a 2008-2009 postdoctoral Fulbright scholar at the UNC at Chapel Hill, she was doing research on Southern men stereotypes in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha novels and short stories. After the return to her home institution, she has continued to pursue her scholarly interests as a Georg Eckert Institute, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, and Erasmus grantee. She has led or taken part in the projects The Rise of City Cultures in Central Europe (2010-2014), The European Context of Croatian Popular Fiction (2015-2016), Language of Desire in Literature and Culture (2025-2029), COST Action CA24160 Comics and Sciences through Multidisciplinary Investigation and Collaboration (2025-2029), COST Action CA24137 Literary Multilingualism and Social Transformations in Superdiverse Societies (2025-2029), and Interreg VI-A Hungary-Croatia Programme 2021-2027: Croatia, Hungary, and Romani: Inclusive Solutions for Harmonized Education (2026-2027).

She specializes in American literature of the twentieth century, literature of the American South, popular culture, popular fiction, Marija Jurić Zagorka’s life and work, and stereotypes in literature and culture.