Mapping the World of Anglo-American Studies at the Turn of the Century

Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević teaches courses on American literature, American women poetry and feminist literary theory and criticism at the Faculty of Philosophy in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Montenegro. She has MA and PhD degrees in American Literature, while her publications include papers on Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, second wave feminism, Herman Melville, and a number of other American authors. She has served as President of Montenegrin Association for Anglo-American Literary Studies since 2008, and has edited and co-edited sixteen books, published in Montenegro and Great Britain. She is currently writing a book about the literary canon and feminist interventions in it.Marija Krivokapić teaches 19th- and 20th-century British Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Montenegro. Her publications generally focus on the work of D.H. Lawrence (Lawrence in Italy (Belgrade, 2000) and Quest for the Transcendent in D.H. Lawrence’s Prose (Nikšić, 2009), as well as dozens of other short publications), though her recent interests also include contemporary Native American literature (Towards the End of Indian History (Nikšić, 2014) and Contemporary Native American Literature (Osijek, 2013)), and travel writing. With Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević, she has co-edited six Cambridge Scholars Publishing editions, the most recent being The Beauty of Convention (2014). She has also edited a series of translations of British, Canadian, South African, and Native American authors, and is the current general editor of linguistics and literature journal Folia Linguistica et Litteraria.