On the Borders of Convention (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443822244)

Aleksandra NIKCEVIC BATRICEVIC is 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 herself co-organized five on Anglo-American studies at the University of Montenegro. She has also organized two conferences on female writing that took place in American Corner in Podgorica. Together with Marija Kneevic, she co-edited Culture-Bound Translation and Language in the Global Era History, Politics, Identity: Reading Literature in a Changing World, and Recounting Cultural Encounters. 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. Marija KNEAEVIC teaches 19th- and 20th-century British Literature, Canadian Literature, as well as British and American Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro, where she also works as a vice dean for international relations. Her publications focus on the work of D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence in Italy, Beograd, 2000, Quest for the Transcendent in D. H. Lawrence's Prose, Niksic, 2009, but her recent interests also include travel writing and Native American literature. Together with Aleksandra Nikcevic Batricevic, she co-edited Culture-Bound Translation and Language in the Global Era History, Politics, Identity: Reading Literature in a Changing World, and Recounting Cultural Encounters all published by Cambridge Scholars Publishers. She 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, and a member of the editorial boards of Rijec, University of Montenegro, Philologia, University of Belgrade, Serbia, [SIC!], University of Zadar, Croatia.