Reading COVID-19 in the Anglo-American context

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Jelena Šesnić (ed)
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4276-3490
Sven Cvek (ed)
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3330-9421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2021

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The fifth volume of Working Papers in American Studies brings together a selection of works based on presentations delivered at the 2020 American Studies Workshop. Held at the University of Zagreb in September 2020, the workshop designated as its theme the cultural aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and assembled in what was at the time a new, hybrid format, a plethora of international and national scholars. As this volume shows, the workshop manifested a particularly strong presence of doctoral students. We present the texts as an illustration of the early perspectives on the pandemic, currently in its second year and clearly inviting further considerations in terms of its manifold repercussions – health and medical, political, geo-political, economic, moral and ethical.

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Jelena Šesnić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English

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, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English

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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22. ožujka 2022.

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Working Papers in American Studies

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2021