A1 Thematic Meetings of the Research Team (2025 – 2026)

Minutes of the First Thematic Meeting_JEŽEKK (12 November 2025)

A2 Internal Glossary of Concepts of Desire with Common Methodological Guidelines (2025-2026)

A3 Report on Methodological Progress (2025 – 2026)

A4 Analysis of Literary and Cultural Texts (2025 – 2029)

A5 Published Research Papers (2028 – 2029)

Jukić, Sanja and Oklopčić, Biljana. “Styllistic Reading of the American Dream Myth in Marsha Norman’s ‘night, Mother” (Anafora) PDF CROSBI link: https://www.croris.hr/crosbi/publikacija/prilog-casopis/953690

Oklopčić, Biljana. ”Does it End with Us?: Interpersonal Violence in Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us” (Anafora) PDF CroRIS link: https://www.croris.hr/crosbi/publikacija/prilog-casopis/953688

Pataki Šumiga, Jelena. “’If not for her, nobody here would be reading this book’: Exploring Literary vs. Popular Fiction and Translation in Book of Love (2022)” (Sic : časopis za književnost, kulturu i književno prevođenje) PDF CroRIS link: https://www.croris.hr/crosbi/publikacija/prilog-casopis/950796

A6 Published Research Monograph (2026 – 2028)

A7 Citations/Positive Reviews (2029)

A8 Analysis of Media Content and/or Political Texts and Practices (2025 – 2029)

A9 Participation in Research Conferences (2025 – 2028)

• • From 6 to 9 November 2025, Assoc. Prof. Sonja Novak, PhD, and Asst. Prof. Stephanie Jug, PhD, participated in the research conference “Wertewandel” im Kontext von Sprache, Literatur und Didaktik in Budva (Montenegro).

Assoc. Prof. Sonja Novak, PhD, gave a presentation entitled Das Posturbane und das Postbürgerliche in deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsproza PPT, PHOTO

Asst. Prof. Stephanie Jug, PhD, gave a presentation entitled Wertewandel in Ilka Maria Ungars Poesie PPT, PHOTO

• • From 4 to 6 December 2025, Prof. Ružica Pšihistal, PhD, participated in the research conference (Dis)kontinuitet(i) u nacionalnoj filologiji at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

 

• • From 22 to 23 April 2026, Assoc. Prof. Ljubica Matek, PhD, participated in the online research conference The Function of Beauty at the London Arts-Based Research Centre in London.

    Assoc. Prof. Ljubica Matek, PhD, gave a presentation entitled Thanato-Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature.

  • From 22 to 23 April 2026, Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, Assistant, participated in the online research conference The Function of Beauty at the London Arts-Based Research Centre in London.

    Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, Assistant, gave a presentation entitled Beauty as a Tool of Biopolitical Desire for Control in Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies.

  • From 6 to 9 May 2026, Prof. Ivan Trojan, PhD, participated in the research conference 53rd Hvar Theatre Days: Moderna, modernizam, moderniteti in Hvar.

Prof. Ivan Trojan, PhD, gave a presentation, co-authored with Assoc. Prof. Tatjana Ileš, PhD, entitled “Pod branom” Adele i Andrije Milčinovića: žudnja, modernistički subjekt i zajednička knjiga. ABSTRACT

• • From 2 to 3 June 2026, Assoc. Prof. Sanja Jukić, PhD, participated in the 12th International Research Conference Identities – Cultures – Languages: Working on the Past: Between Forgetting and Post-Truth in Mostar.

Assoc. Prof. Sanja Jukić, PhD, gave an online presentation entitled Desire as a Manifestation of Trauma in the Poetry of Marijana Radmilović. PPT; CERTIFICATE; PHOTO

A10 Analysis of Laws and Subordinate Legislation (2025 – 2029)

2025/2026

The emergence of the geopoliticization of national legislation was analysed as a response to the global security architecture and the absence of peace in the world, viewed as an erosion of the effectiveness of the Charter of the United Nations and the Helsinki Final Act.

A11 Analysis of Source Texts and Translations (2025 – 2029)

2025/2026

An analysis was conducted of changes in the ways desire is expressed, from subtle, introspective longing to socially coded and unspoken emotional tension, in Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and their translations into Croatian.

A12 Organization of a Research Conference (2026 – 2027)

A13 Organization of a Student Conference (2027 – 2028)

A14 Published Student Papers (2028 – 2029)

A15 Implementation of Innovative Study Methods (2027 – 2029)

A16 Visits to Research Institutions, Libraries and Archives (2026 – 2029)

• • On 10 February 2026, Prof. Ružica Pšihistal, PhD, visited the National and University Library in Zagreb. As part of the one-day research visit, Prof. Ružica Pšihistal, PhD, analysed desire as a semiotically and historically structured category within literary and cultural discourses. REPORT

• • In June 2026, Prof. Ružica Pšihistal, PhD, visited the National and University Library in Zagreb. As part of the one-day research visit, Prof. Ružica Pšihistal, PhD, collected literature on the concept of desire for the paper “Život i tekst Dubravke Oraić Tolić u semiotičkim eksplozijama”. REPORT

A17 Project Popularization Activities (2026 – 2029)

• • On 27 May 2026, Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, Assistant, and Prof. Biljana Oklopčić, PhD, promoted the project The Language of Desire in Literature and Culture at the Glotta student association conference entitled Pop Lingua.

Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, Assistant, promoted the project by giving a presentation entitled Genre, Gender, and Desire: Literary vs. Popular Fiction in Book of Love (2022) PPT, CERTIFICATE, PHOTO

Prof. Biljana Oklopčić, PhD, promoted the project by giving a presentation entitled Desire that Hurts: Gender, Power, and Control in Popular Culture Texts PPT, CERTIFICATE, PHOTO

A18 Establishment and Updating of the Project Website (2025 – 2029)

The website was established in October 2025.

A19 Establishment of an Old Periodicals Portal (2027 – 2028)

A20 Implementation of Digital Transition Activities (2026 – 2028)