Dr. Jelena Šesnić Jukićeva 32
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
E-mail: jsesnic@m.ffzg.hr
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
PhD in Philology, University of Zagreb, 2005; MA (Philology), Univ. of Zagreb, 2001; BA (English, Comparative Lit.), Univ. of Zagreb, 1997
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor Sept. 2024
Full Professor, Department of English, Univ. of Zagreb March 2019-
Chair, American Studies Program, Dept. of English, U of Zagreb October 2018-
Associate Professor, Dept. of English, U of Zagreb July 2012- March 2019
Head, Dept. of English, U of Zagreb Oct. 2011-Oct. 2013
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, U of Zagreb Dec. 2006-July 2012
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
American Studies Department, Universität Wien, Austria 18-22 June 2018
JFK library research grant, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany March 2014
ESF Young Researchers Forum, National Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth 9-12 June 2011
Workshop “The Futures of American Studies”, Dartmouth College, USA June 2008
JFK library research grant, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany September 2007
EAAS Research Grant, J. G. Universität Mainz, Germany October 2005
Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Virginia, USA Aug. 2002-Aug. 2003
Fulbright Summer Seminar, University of Louisville, USA June-July 2001
JKF library research grant, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany February 2001
FUNDED PROJECTS
A Glossary of Transatlantic Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century 2025-
Transatlantic Literature in the Long Ninteenth Century 2019-2023
A Cultural History of Capitalism: Britain, America, Croatia (Team Member) 2014-2018
A Cultural Mapping of the USA in Regional American Studies (TM) 2013-
Cultures of Croatian Transition and Anglophone Globalization (TM) 2008-2012
Conceptualizing the Sea and Its Place in the US Cultural Imaginary (TM) 2006-2010
National Ideologemes in Modern Croatian and Irish Literature (TM) 2002-2006
Relations of Croatian and Anglophone Literatures in the 20th Century (TM) 1998-2001
TEACHING
Undergraduate courses: Aspects of American Romanticism; American Lit. 1865-1914; The American Nineteenth-Century Novel; The American Bildungsroman of the 19th and 20th c.; American Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
Graduate courses: Paradigms of American Studies 1 and 2; History and Memory in the Contemporary American Novel; Croatian American Ethnic Literature; U.S. Ethnic Literatures; Images of American Politics in Literature and Visual Media
Postgraduate (PhD) courses: Ethnicity, Nation and Globalization; American Women Writers and the Capitalist Modernity; Croatian-American Writing; History and Memory in the Contemporary American Novel; Images of American Politics in Literature and Visual Media
Erasmus exchange program, U. of Mainz, Germany Dec. 2024
Erasmus exchange program, U. of Szeged, Hungary Oct. 2019
CEEPUS exchange program, U of Graz, Austria Oct. 2016- cont.
CEEPUS exchange program, U of Novi Sad, Serbia April 2013; April 2018
Erasmus exchange program, U of Graz, Austria Fall 2009/10
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
Books
- Šesnić, Jelena. Metafore ideologije i figure teksta: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick i američki književni studiji. Zagreb: Biblioteka L, FF Open Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.17234/9789533791500
- ---. Mračne žene. Prikazi ženstva u američkoj književnosti (1820-1860). Zagreb: Leykam International, 2010. (Dark Ladis: Figures of Femininity in American Lit., 1820-60)
---. From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature. Amsterdam, New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Link to complete bibliography at CROSBI: https://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=236460
