The (Un)usable Pasts in American Studies

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Jelena Šesnić (ed)
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za anglistiku
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4276-3490
Sven Cvek (ed)
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za anglistiku
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3330-9421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2018

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The essays contained in the third volume of Working Papers in American Studies were first presented in the 4th annual American Studies workshop entitled “The (Un)usable Pasts in American Studies” held in Zagreb on May 14, 2016. The contributions have been expanded for publication in this volume.

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Jelena Šesnić, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za anglistiku

Jelena Šesnić is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia. Her books include From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature (Rodopi, 2007); Mračne žene: Prikazi ženstva u američkoj književnosti (1820-1860) [Dark women: Representations of womanhood in American literature (1820–1860)] (Leykam international, 2010); and, as editor, Siting America, Sighting Modernity: Essays in Honor of Sonja Bašić (FF-press, 2010). She is a co-founder and currently secretary of the Croatian Association for American Studies, a co-organizer of the annual Zagreb American Studies Workshop, and vice-president of the Association for American Studies in South-Eastern Europe.

Sven Cvek, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za anglistiku

Sven Cvek works as an Assistant Professor in the American Studies program of the English Department at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is a collaborator on the project “A Cultural History of Capitalism: Britain, America, Croatia.” Since 2014, he has also been coordinating the research project “Continuity of Social Conflict in Croatia 1988–1991” in cooperation with the Center for Peace Studies (CMS) and the Organization for Workers’ Initiative and Democratization (BRID). He has published a book, Towering Figures: Reading the 9/11 Archive (Rodopi, 2011), and co-edited Naša priča: 15 godina ATTACK!a [Our story: 15 years of ATTACK!] (2014). His broadest interest is in studying the place of culture in the process of historical and social change.

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26. veljače 2021.

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Working Papers in American Studies

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1849-6180

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Copyright (c) 2018 Jelena Šesnić, Sven Cvek; Stipe Grgas, Tomislav Brlek, Dubravka Đurić, Slavica Troskot

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2018