2008 granted the status of tenured Full Professor at the Department of English (division: English Literature), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 2002 granted the status of Full Professor at the Department of English (division: English Literature), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 1996 granted the status of Associate Professor at the Department of English (division: English Literature), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 1994/95 introduced a course in the new literatures in English (Australian literature) into the literary studies program at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 1992/93 Fulbright scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, USA 1991/92 (fall term) participated in the project “Baroque in Scottish Literature” at the Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, UK 1990 exchange professor at the University of Bloomington, Indiana, USA (three-month stay) 1988 granted the status of Assistant Professor at the Department of English (division: English Literature), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 1987 received Ph.D. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, (thesis title: The term baroque and its applicability to English Literature of the 17th century) 1978/79 (spring term) Visiting Researcher at University of Sydney, Australia 1975/76 enrolled in Ph.D. Program at Harvard University (recipient of Baloković Scholarship) 1974 granted the status of Research Assistant at the Department of English (division: English Literature), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb 1973 received MA (title of thesis: Poetic Images in the Poetry of William Blake) 1970 enrolled in the graduate studies program – Literary Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (scholarship recipient); also enrolled in the undergraduate philosophy program at the Department of Philosophy 1970 graduated in English Language and Literature and German Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagre

Research interests
Shakespeare, English Early Modern Period, postcolonial theory, Australian literature, Scottish literature

Undergraduate courses
Shakespeare I: text, film, stage performance

Graduate courses
English baroque poetry
Shakespeare II

Postgraduate courses
/

Other
• participated in numerous conferences on issues in English, American, Australian, Croatian and Comparative Literature at home and abroad (Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Cres, Opatija, Ljubljana, Krakow, Klagenfurt, Stratford, Glasgow, Warwick, Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, Toulouse)
• headed five research projects on the forms of reception of Shakespeare in Croatian literature and culture
• co-organizer of an international conference on British Cultural Studies in 1998
• participated in several dozen radio broadcasts on Croatian Radio, Channel 3

Professional membership
Matica Hrvatska, EASA (European Association for the Studies on Australia), HKAD (Croatian-Canadian Academic Society), ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)

Selected bibliography
Books:
1. Neka veća stalnost: Shakespeare u tekstu i kontekstu, Zavod za znanost o književnosti Filozofskog fakulteta, Zagreb, 2001.
2. Domišljato stvoren svijet: Barok u engleskoj književnosti, Naklada Slap, Zagreb, 2008.

Editor:
British Cultural Studies: Cross-Cultural Challenges, zbornik radova s međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa istog naslova, ur. Janja Ciglar-Žanić i Damir Kalogjera, The British Council Croatia i Odsjek za anglistiku Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, 1998.

Papers and book chapters:
• „Naš ‘Shakespeare’ ili uvježbavanje bardicida“. Književna smotra. 2 (2007), 144, pp. 3-6.
• „Od idioma do ideologema: byronizam Dimitrija Demetra“. Umjetnost riječi. L (2006), 2-3, pp. 215-230.
• „Povijest versus pri/povijesti: o Tillyardovoj Elizabetinskoj slici svijeta“ Elizabetinska slika svijeta. Eustace M. [Mandeville] W. [Wetenhall] Tillyard / Marotti, Bojan (ed.). Zagreb: ArTresor, 2006. pp. 5-18.
• „Barokno pjesništvo, englesko i hrvatsko: značenje nekih analogija“. Hrvatska i svijet: zbornik ,Lukšić, Irena (ed.), Zagreb: Hrvatsko filološko društvo, 2002. pp. 63-80.
• „Landscape into Mindscape: Nature Representations in Australian Literature“. Australian Nationalism Reconsidered: Maintaining a Monocultural Tradition in a Multicultural Society , Wimmer, Adi (ed.), Tübingen:Stauffenberg Verlag, 1999. pp. 84-98.
• „Društveni locus utopijskog: Petrić, Držić, More i Shakespeare“. Frane Petrić . Ljerka Šifler-Premec (ed.). Zagreb: Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo, 1999.
• „Anti-colonial Tempest: Theory and Practice of Postmodernist Shakespearean Reinscriptions.“ Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. 42 (1997), pp. 71-83.
• „Kralj Lear ili logike abdikacije“. Vijenac. VI (1998), 107, pp. 31.
• „Bard a la bricolage“. Vijenac. V I (1998), 115; pp. 27.
• „Šekspirolog opće prakse“. Vijenac. V (1997), 103-104; pp. 11.
• „Po bardu ili kako hoćete“.Vijenac. V (1997), 92; pp. 38.
• „The Anglographic Perspective“ (Ivo Vidan: The English Intertext of Croatian Literature) . Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. 41 (1996), pp. 229-232.
• „Tragom škotskog pripovjedačkog glasa, antologija suvremene škotske proze“. Treći program hrvatskog radija. 49-50 (1996), pp. 173-257.
• „Canon Twice Re/canonized: Teaching Shakespeare in Croatia Today“. British Studies Now . Wadham-Smith, Nick (ed.), Warwick: The British Council, 1996. pp. 56-63.
• „Recruiting the Bard: Onstage and Offstage Glimpses on Recent Shakespeare Production in Croatia“. Shakespeare in the New Europe, Michael Hattaway, Boika Sokolova i Derek Roper (eds), Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994, pp. 261-275.
• „Fatal Fascination or Calculated Choice: The Conceit in Seventeenth Century English Poetry“, Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia, 31-31 (1986/97), pp. 3-20.
• „Koliko je metafizička engleska metafizička poezija’“, Umjetnost riječi, 1, Zagreb (1988), pp. 73-92.
• „Neki aspekti engleskog književnog baroka: Formalni manirizmi i njihove funkcije u engleskom postrenesansnom pjesništvu“, Književni barok, Dunja Fališevac i Živa Benčić (eds), Zagreb: Zavod za znanost o književnosti, 1988, pp. 191-223.