Jasna Poljak Rehlicki has been employed at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek since 2006. She received her PhD for the dissertation “From Myth to Irony – The Figure of the Soldier in 20th- and 21st-Century American War Literature” and her research primarily focuses on contemporary American literature and war writing. She has participated in research conferences in Croatia and abroad. She is the author of dozens of articles and two edited volumes. In 2011–2012, she received a Fulbright scholarship and spent time at Portland State University in Oregon, USA, as a visiting researcher. She enjoys participating in activities with students and is co-editor of the student collection I, Too, Sing America: Students’ Essays on 20th Century American Literature and the first issue of the student journal Kick, which also published student papers on contemporary American literature. She participated in the summer school project within the Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP – Erasmus Programme – Intensive Programme (IP)) entitled Cultural Landscapes: Negotiation Cultural Encounters with the English Speaking World, attended between 2012 and 2014 by around twenty students from the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, as well as in two Erasmus+ mobility programmes (Slovenia and Spain). She is the author of the university textbook Voices of a Nation: American Literature from Modernism to Present (2005).
Jadranka Zlomislić is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, where she teaches courses related to American and British culture. Her doctoral dissertation and a number of her publications focus on literary works belonging to the genre of the American academic novel. She is a native speaker of both English and Croatian, and her teaching and research interests include American and British cultural studies, as well as the language, literature and culture of the English-speaking world.
Ljubica Matek is employed at the Chair of Anglophone Literature of the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. She teaches courses in Anglo-American literature at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. She is the author of the university textbook English Literature in Context (FFOS, 2020), as well as the author and co-author of several edited collections and numerous research papers. As a Fulbright scholar, she completed professional development in the United States within the Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) in Contemporary American Literature programme at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in 2008. She participated in the research project Transcultural/Transmedial: British / American, German, and Croatian Film Adaptations of Literature in the Period 1990-2015 (INGI-2015). She was a member of the editorial board of [sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation at the University of Zadar from its establishment in 2009 until 2014, has been a member of the academic editorial board of Messengers from the Stars (University of Lisbon, Portugal) since 2015, and has been a member of the editorial board of Kick – the journal of the Glotta English Studies Students’ Association – since 2019. Her particular research interests include Gothic literature and fantastic literature in general, film and film adaptations of literature, and representations of the family in contemporary Anglo-American literature. She is a member of the Croatian Philological Society, the Croatian Association for the Study of English, the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), and the Croatian Association for American Studies.
Biljana Oklopčić is a Full Professor at the Chair of Anglophone Literature of the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Her research interests include 20th-century American literature, American modernism, literature of the American South, stereotypes in literature and culture, popular culture and popular literature. She is the author of the research monographs Faulkner and the Native Keystone: Reading (Beyond) the American South (2014), Mit i stereotip u djelima Williama Faulknera (2021) and Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature (co-authored with Lovorka Gruić Grmuša, 2022). She completed professional development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Fulbright scholarship, 2008/2009), the Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig (Otto Bennemann Scholarship, 2012), the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin (2014), and the Benjamin Franklin Institute in Alcalá de Henares (Erasmus+ scholarship, 2018, 2019).
Jelena Pataki Šumiga graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek in 2014 with degrees in Croatian Language and Literature (teacher education track) and English Language and Literature (translation track), and is currently enrolled in the postgraduate study programme Literature and Cultural Identity, where she is working on a dissertation entitled “The (Ab)Use of the Body in the Contemporary Anglophone Dystopian Novel”. As an Assistant at the Department of English Language and Literature, she teaches seminars for the courses “Survey of English Literature I: From the Beginnings to the Mid-18th Century” and “Contemporary British Literature”. She is a member of the Croatian Association for the Study of English and the Croatian Association for American Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, the Centre for North American Studies, the Management Board of the Centre for Popular Culture at FFOS, and the editorial board of the popular-science blog Fractals. Her research and popular-science interests include dystopias, fantastic literature, YA literature and adaptation studies. In addition to teaching and research, she works as a translator for several publishing houses, has translated more than 50 titles from English into Croatian, and is a member of the Croatian Literary Translators Association.
Luka Pejić graduated in History and English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. He received his PhD in 2019 from the postgraduate study programme Modern and Contemporary Croatian History in the European and Global Context at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is the author of several research papers and the monograph Historija klasičnog anarhizma u Hrvatskoj – fragmenti subverzije (2016). He is co-editor of the volumes Michel Foucault: moć ideja (2014), Reformacija u Europi i njezini odjeci: povodom 500. obljetnice Lutherovih teza (2019), Mikrohistorija. Pola stoljeća inovacija (2021), Ljudi s margine. Prilozi iz socijalne historije Banske Hrvatske u 19. stoljeću (2024), and Društva i bolesti: odgovori na zdravstvene krize u modernoj i suvremenoj povijesti (2025). He is employed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, and his specific research interests include the history of marginalized social groups, crime and the labour movement at the turn of the 20th century. He completed professional development at Karl-Franzens University in Graz (2011) and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam (2021).
Sanja Runtić is a Full Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, where she teaches courses in early American literature, American realism and naturalism, American women’s writing, postcolonial literature and theory, Native American literature, and multicultural literature in English. In addition to Native American literature (the topic of her doctoral dissertation and most of her publications), her research interests include Indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, postmodernism, women’s studies, Canadian studies, and American realism and naturalism. She is the author of two monographs, Suvremena književnost američkih starosjedilaca (co-authored with Marija Knežević, 2013) and Vrijeme buđenja: (De)konstrukcija ženskog subjektiviteta u američkoj fikcionalnoj prozi na prijelazu iz 19. u 20. stoljeće (2019). She completed professional development at the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin (2002), the University of Arizona (Fulbright scholarship, 2003/2004), the University of Central Oklahoma (Erasmus+ scholarship, 2017), the Centro Studi Americani in Rome (2022), and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (Erasmus+ scholarship, 2023). She currently serves as President of the Croatian Association for American Studies (HUAmS).
Matea Butković is employed as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka. She received her degree in English and German Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include multiculturalism, intercultural education and literature. A list of her publications is available at: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/profil/36996.
Antonija Hreščan graduated in English and German Studies from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She is employed as a Senior Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes at the Catholic University of Croatia. Her research interests include English as a foreign language and media studies.
Tatjana Jukić-Gregurić is a Full Professor and Head of the Chair of English Literature at the Department of English of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she teaches courses in Victorian literature and art and film. She also teaches in the doctoral programmes in Comparative Literature and Croatian Language and Literature, and has been a guest lecturer at various universities and research institutes in Europe and the United States. She is the author of two books, and her articles have been published in The Henry James Review, Orbis Litterarum, Neue Rundschau and the European Journal of English Studies. A list of her publications is available at: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/profil/15835.
Barbara Kružić is a doctoral student in the postgraduate university study programme Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where she completed undergraduate and graduate study programmes in English Language and Literature and Croatian Language and Literature. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, phraseology and medical discourse. A list of her publications is available at: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pretraga?operators=and|barbara%20Kru%C5%BEi%C4%87|text|profile.
Valentina Markasović is a doctoral student in the postgraduate university study programme Literature and Cultural Identity at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. At the same Faculty, she graduated in English Language and Literature and History, and she is employed as an external associate–assistant at the Chair of Anglophone Literature within the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. Her research interests include issues of representation, identity and women’s writing in English and American literature, fantasy literature, popular literature and children’s and young adult literature. A list of her publications is available at: https://www.bib.irb.hr/profile/39144.
Gordan Matas is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. He graduated in English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. At the same Faculty, he received his master’s degree in 2005 and his PhD in 2010. His research interests include American literature, Canadian literature, multiculturalism, ethnicity and hybridity. A list of his publications is available at: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/profil/23042.
Sanja Matković holds master’s degrees in English and German Studies and is a doctoral student in the postgraduate university study programme Literature and Cultural Identity. Her research interests include contemporary Anglophone literature, Catholic novels, and the theme of the meaning of life in literature and film.
Martina Podboj is an Assistant at the Department of English Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. She graduated in English Language and Literature and Croatian Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. She completed a doctoral study programme in Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She undertook professional development at the University of Alberta in Canada. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and second language acquisition. A list of her publications is available at: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=PRDHFnoAAAAJ&hl=hr.
Vanja Polić Jurković is an Associate Professor at the Department of English of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She graduated in English and Italian Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she also received her PhD on a topic in the field of the early English novel. Her research interests include Canadian literature in English, postcolonial literature, the early English novel, trans- and postmodernism and the Anthropocene. A list of her publications is available at: http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=247811.
Petra Sapun Kurtin is employed as an Assistant at the Department of English Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. She graduated in English Language and Literature and German Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. She is currently completing her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She completed professional development at New York University, Tulane University (Fulbright scholarship) and the University of Alberta in Canada. She is President of the Croatian-Canadian Academic Society (CCAS). Her research interests include theories of spatiality, representations of the city, port cities, Mediterranean studies and translation. A list of her publications is available at https://ualberta.academia.edu/PetraSapunKurtin and https://www.bib.irb.hr/profile/1246.
Mirna Sindičić Sabljo is a Senior Research Associate employed at the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Zadar, where she teaches a number of courses in French and Québécois literature. She graduated in Comparative Literature, Theatre Studies and Art History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and in French and Italian Language and Literature from the University of Zadar. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She undertook research stays at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III University (2005) and Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV (2011), as well as professional development at Trinity College Dublin (2014) and Masaryk University in Brno. Her research interests include Croatian-French literary relations, Québécois studies and contemporary Francophone prose. A list of her publications is available at: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/profil/25487.
Petra Sršić is a doctoral student in the postgraduate university study programme Literature and Cultural Identity at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where she completed a graduate study programme in English Language and Literature and History. Her research interests include representations of sexuality, women’s studies, the integrity of the female body, the family in popular literature and fantasy literature.
Lívia Klára Szélpál is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies at the University of Szeged (SZTE), where she teaches American and British history, literature and culture. She completed master’s degrees in American Studies (2004) and History (2005) at the University of Szeged (SZTE) and received her PhD in Comparative History from Central European University in 2013. Her research interests include American Studies, the history of the United States (including unconventional histories), contemporary British and American literature, history in film, urban history, and modern and contemporary American culture. She is a member of the advisory board of AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary. She is also a member of AHEA, HUSSE, HAAS, Spechel: Anglo-Hungarian Cultural Society and Hajnal István Kör: Társadalomtörténeti Egyesület. E-mail: [szelpal.livia@szte.hu].
Jelena Šesnić is a Full Professor at the Department of English of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she teaches courses in American literature and culture and American Studies. She is President of the Croatian Association for American Studies (HUAmS). Her research interests include American Studies methodology, 19th-century American literature, cultural memory, literature of the Croatian Anglophone diaspora, and American film genres. A list of her publications is available at: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pretraga?operators=and|%C5%A0esni%C4%87,%20Jelena%20%2827628%29|text|profile.
Lovorka Zergollern-Miletić is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb. She completed her studies in English and French at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she also obtained her master’s degree and PhD. She was employed at the Institute of Linguistics and the Department of English of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Since 2010, she has been employed at the Chair of English Language Teacher Education at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb. Her research interests include linguistics, applied linguistics, and the study of cultures and humour. A list of her publications is available at: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/profil/30008.
