Author: Marija Knezevic

Marija Knežević teaches 19th- and 20th-century British literature at The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro, where she also works as a Vice Dean for International Relations. Her publications, D. H. Lawrence in Italy (Beograd, 2000) and Quest for the Transcendent in D. H. Lawrence”s Prose (Nikšić, 2009), focus on the work of D. H. Lawrence, but her recent interests also include travel writing and Native American literature. Apart from numerous other publications, together with Aleksandra Nikčević Batrićević, she co-edited Culture-Bound Translation and Language in the Global Era; History, Politics, Identity: Reading Literature in a Changing World; Recounting Cultural Encounters and On the Borders of Convention (2010) all published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. She has edited and co-edited a series of translations of British, Canadian, and Native American authors. She is the current General Editor of linguistics and literature journal Folia Linguistica et Literaria.Aleksandra Nikčević Batrićević is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Montenegro. She also teaches courses on feminist literary theory and English language at the Department of History. Although in her publications she primarily focuses on the works of Herman Melville and English and American female poets, her interests also include literary theory (narratology and feminist criticism/theory). During the previous years she has participated at various international conferences and has co-organized seven on Anglo-American studies at the University of Montenegro. She has also organized conferences on female writing that take place in American Corner in Podgorica. Together with Marija Knežević, she co-edited Culture-Bound Translation and Language in the Global Era; History, Politics, Identity: Reading Literature in a Changing World; Recounting Cultural Encounters and On the Borders of Convention (2010). She is President of the Society for Anglo-American Literary Studies and member of the editorial boards of several literary magazines (ARS, Lingua Montenegrina, Folia Linguistica et Literaria) in Montenegro. Her translations include literary texts as well as texts related to literary theory.