PhD Biljana Vlašković Ilić
no.: 09115

British and American Drama, Theatre, Literary Criticism, Shakespeare

BILJANA VLAŠKOVIĆ ILIĆ was born in 1979 in Kragujevac, Serbia. She graduated in English Language and Literature (2007) from The Faculty of Philology and Arts (Kragujevac, Serbia), where she also completed her doctoral studies by successfully defending her PhD thesis, History in George Bernard Shaw’s Dramatic Art: Context, Text, and Metatext, in February, 2014. She has been employed at the Faculty of Philology and Arts as an Associate Professor since 2014, where she teaches the following literary courses: Shakespeare (BA), 19-century American Literature (BA), Introduction to Irish Studies (BA), Introduction to Canadian Studies (BA), and Engaged Literature in XX century (PhD studies). Her research interests are focused on the relations between drama/theatre, literature/literary criticism, philosophy and history. She has participated in many national and international conferences and has published papers in the field of English literature and culture in national and international journals. She is an active member of the International Shaw Society (ISS), and the European Shakespeare Association (ESRA). She has published two monographs: History for Life: the Case of Bernard Shaw (2018), and Early American Literature (2020; 2021, second edition). She has participated in several international scientific projects, including the project cycle Language, Literature, Culture Today: Brands in Literature, Language, and Culture (2018-19), Ecopoetics in Literature, Language, and Art (2020-21), and Literary, Linguistic, Cultural Humano(po)ethics: the good—the bad, the ugly (2022-23). She also participated in the Erasmus projects Erasmus RE@WBC (2018), and the project supported by the US Embassy in Serbia: EMI—English as Medium of Instruction (2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23). She was a mentor on two successfully defended PhD theses and is currently mentoring three PhD students.