dr. sc. Jelena Pataki Šumiga

Survey of English Literature I (from the Beginnings to the Mid-18th Century)
Contemporary British Literature

Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, is a TA at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek (2020–ongoing). She teaches courses in old English literature and contemporary British dystopia. In 2018, she taught a translation course at the Sub-Department of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English. Her fields of research include dystopia, Disney, romance, and YA literature. She is a member of the USSE, the YA Studies Association, and a co-editor of the scholarly blog Fractals: The Shapes of Popular Culture (https://fractalsffos.wordpress.com/category/article/). She has published a dozen academic papers, co-edited the Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture conference proceedings (FF Press, 2023), and she headed the Violence in Popular Culture and Contemporary Adaptations Research Project (2024-2025).

She is also a successful conference interpreter and literary translator, with more than 70 novels and non-fiction titles translated from English to Croatian.