prof. dr. sc. Sanja Runtić

Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Književnost američkih Indijanaca
Survey of American Literature I (from the Beginnings to the End of the 19th Century)

Sanja Runtić holds a degree in English and German Language and Literature from the Faculty of Education, University of Osijek (1994) and an MA (2000) and PhD (2005) in American Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She is a tenured Full Professor of English Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek.

Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of American and Canadian studies, Native American literature (the topic of her PhD dissertation and major publications), Indigenous studies, postcolonial literature and theory, postmodernism, and women’s studies.

She has been awarded several grants, including the John F. Kennedy Institute research grant (Berlin, 2002), Fulbright fellowship (University of Arizona, 2003–2004 academic year), and Erasmus+ fellowships (University of Central Oklahoma, 2017 and Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, 2023).

She is the current president of the Croatian Association for American Studies (HUAmS).