My research, professional, and personal interests include languages and literatures, history, museum publishing, higher education, and science, technology and culture. Below is an overview of my authored publications, as well as publications I have project-managed, edited, and translated.
Authored publications
Scholarly writing
My research work has concentrated on the sea narratives of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad in the context of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century maritime literature and history.
"Collecting Histories: Community Archiving and Institutional Collaboration 2024 Research Report. Co-authored with Caitlin Lerch. Forthcoming: Maryland Center for History and Culture, 2024.
"The Ship as Assemblage: Melville's Literary Shipboard Geographies." Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 15, vol. 1 (2018): 40–61. DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2017.1347380. Peer-reviewed journal article.
PhD dissertation, University of Zagreb, 2017.
"Maritime Narratives as Minor Literature: Reading Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad with Deleuze and Guattari." HCA Spring Academy: American History, Culture & Politics. Heidelberg, Germany: Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg Center for American Studies (2013), 103–112. Conference reader article.
Public writing and creative nonfiction
"The Entropy of Little Things." Delmarva Review 15 (November 2022): 144–48. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Reprinted in The Best of Delmarva Review 2008–2023, forthcoming December 2024.
"MCHC Celebrates 20 Years of Maryland History Fellowships." Maryland History and Culture News (Fall 2024): 23–25.
"Collecting Histories: How Community and Traditional Archives Work Together." Co-authored with David Belew and Caitlin Lerch. Maryland History and Culture News (Spring 2024): 30–33.
"Spotlight: Fall Is for Fellowships." Maryland History and Culture News (Fall 2023): 27.
"Sailing under Black: Notes toward a Theory of Piracy." Overland Literary Journal, June 15, 2016.
"Leonard Cohen, Poet of Archetypes," The Quill Magazine, January 2017. (journal discontinued)
Edited publications
My editorial experience includes a peer-reviewed historical journal and publications in the field of higher education.
Maryland Historical Magazine. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Center for History and Culture, 2019–present. Peer-reviewed historical journal in publication since 1906, editor-in-chief.
Career Advising Services in Croatian Universities. Zagreb, Institute for the Development of Education, 2006. Bilingual handbook: English and Croatian, editorial board member.
Pravo na obrazovanje: Visoko obrazovanje u Hrvatskoj i Europi [The Right to Education: Higher Education in Croatia and Europe]. Zagreb, Student Information Center, 2005. Higher education handbook, editor-in-chief.
Managed publications
This is a reverse-chronological list of book projects I have managed.
Lounsbury, Carl, ed. The Material Culture of Eyre Hall: Four Centuries of Chesapeake History. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Center for History and Culture in association with Giles Ltd., 2021. Project manager.
Spectrum of Fashion. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, 2019. Project manager.
Published translations
I am a published translator with a range of specializations, and my languages are English and Croatian. This reverse-chronological selected list includes publications I have translated in the subject areas of youth studies, sustainable development, justice, and higher education and the European Union. Each annotated title contains information on source and target language(s), as well as links where available.
Gvozdanović, Anja, et al. Youth Study Croatia 2018/2019. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung e. V. Referat Mittel- und Osteuropa, 2019. English translation. (Original title: Mladi u Hrvatskoj 2018. – istraživački izvještaj)
Šćukanec, Ninoslav, et al. Enhancing Quality in Higher Education by Fostering Equity and Social Inclusion: Overview of E-Quality Project Results. // Unapređivanje kvalitete u visokom obrazovanju kroz jačanje pravednosti i socijalne uključenosti: pregled rezultata projekta E-Quality. Zagreb: Institute for the Development of Education, 2015. English and Croatian translations.
Thomas, Liz. Oznaka kvalitete za unapređivanje pravednosti i socijalne uključenosti u visokom obrazovanju u Hrvatskoj: preporuke i pregled najboljih međunarodnih praksa. Zagreb: Institute for the Development of Education, 2015. Croatian translation. (original title: Quality Label to Enhance Equity and Social Inclusion in Higher Education in Croatia: Recommendations and Overview of International Best Practice)
Domazet, Mladen and Dinka Marinovic Jerolimov, eds. Sustainability Perspectives from the European Semi-periphery. Zagreb: Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (ISRZ) and Heinrich Böll Stiftung Croatia, 2014. English translation, chapters translated:
Cifric, Ivan. "Limits to Growth and the Growth of Limits: Are We Ready for a Sustainable Society?"
Jolic, Tvrtko. "Climate Change and Human Moral Enhancement."
File, Jon, et al. Financiranje visokog obrazovanja i socijalna dimenzija u Hrvatskoj: analiza i preporuke. Zagreb: Institute for the Development of Education, 2013. Croatian translation. (original title: Higher Education Funding and the Social Dimension in Croatia: Analysis and Policy Guidelines)
Prawelska-Skrzypek, Grażyna, et al. Priznavanje prethodnog učenja u visokom obrazovanju – izazovi oblikovanja sustava. Zagreb: Institute for the Development of Education, 2013. Croatian translation (original title: Recognition of Prior Learning in Higher Education – Challenges of Designing the System)
Doolan, Karin, Danijela Dolenec and Mladen Domazet. Hrvatski sustav financiranja visokog obrazovanja u europskom kontekstu: komparativna studija. Zagreb: Institute for the Development of Education, 2012. Croatian translation (original title: The Croatian Higher Education Funding System In a European Context: A Comparative Study)
Cvitan, Mirna, et al. Social and Economic Conditions of Higher Education Students in Croatia: National EUROSTUDENT Survey Report for Croatia. Zagreb: Institute for the Development of Education, 2011. English translation. (original title: Socijalna i ekonomska slika studentskog života u Hrvatskoj: nacionalno izvješće istraživanja EUROSTUDENT za Hrvatsku).
Bilingual handbook Povećanje mobilnosti hrvatske akademske zajednice: ulazak Hrvatske u program Erasmus//Enhancing Academic Mobility in Croatia: Croatia's Entry into Erasmus. Zagreb: Institute for the Development of Education, 2008. English and Croatian translations, in cooperation with Mirna Furdek and Nina Vranešević.
Collected papers, Stipendije.info: uloga stipendija u povećanju akademske mobilnosti. Zagreb, SIC – Student Information Center, 2005. Croatian translation, in cooperation with Mirna Furdek. (original title: Scholarships.info: The Role of Scholarships in Enhancing Academic Mobility)
Webber, David. Dobro planiranje proračuna, bolje pravosuđe: suvremene proračunske prakse u pravosuđu. Law and development working paper series; no.3. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Croatian translation. (original title: Good Budgeting, Better Justice: Modern Budget Practices for the Judicial Sector; client: Croatian Ministry of Justice)
This reverse-chronological list includes publications I have translated in the areas of literature, literary and cultural theory and criticism, and translation theory. All titles were translated from English to Croatian.
Flotow, Louise von. Rod i prevođenje. Zagreb: Josip Benčević i partneri, 2005. (original title: Translation and Gender, in cooperation with Kolumbina Benčević)
Hegarty, Paul. "Do dna buke." Quorum. Zagreb: Naklada MD, 2005. (original title: "Full With Noise")
England, Phil. "Formiranje prirodne scene." Quorum. Zagreb: Naklada MD, 2005. (original title: "Making the Nature Scene")
Cox, Christoph. "Apstraktni konkretizam." Quorum. Zagreb: Naklada MD, 2005. (original title: "Abstract Concrete")
Cascone, Kim. "Laptop glazba." Quorum. Zagreb: Naklada MD, 2005. (original title: "Laptop Music")
Thaemlitz, Terre. "Intersticiji." Quorum. Zagreb: Naklada MD, 2005. (original title: "Interstices")
Thaemlitz, Terre. "Kriza post-spektakularne 'live' izvedbe suvremene ambijentalne glazbe." Quorum. Zagreb: Naklada MD, 2005. (original title: "The Crisis of Post-Spectacle ‘Live’ Contemporary Ambient Performance")
Crump, Simon. My Elvis Blackout - selected stories translated for the 2005 European Short Story Festival.
Stories translated: "Scatter//Scatter;" "Elvis: zajebani debeli fetus//Elvis: Fat Fucked-up Foetus;" "Dnevnik Larryja Gellera, Elvisova frizera i duhovnog vodiča//Diary of Larry Geller, Elvis' Hairdresser and Spiritual Guide."
Easthope, Antony. "Visoka kultura/popularna kultura: Srce tame i Tarzan među majmunima." Quorum. Zagreb: Naklada MD, 2001; Duda, Dean, ed. Politika teorije: zbornik rasprava iz kulturalnih studija. Zagreb: Disput, 2006. (original title: "High Culture/Popular Culture: Heart of Darkness and Tarzan of the Apes," in cooperation with Katmerka Kurtović)