Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature

Lovorka Gruic Grmusa is Associate Professor of American literature at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia. She is the author of The Novelistic Vision of Kurt Vonnegut (2015), and she has contributed to many literary journals and conference proceedings. Among her academic achievements, she has been awarded the Fulbright Fellowship and the Duke University Literature Program grant.

Biljana Oklopcic is Associate Professor of American literature, currently serving in the capacity of Vice-Dean for Study Programs and Lifelong Learning, at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia. She is the author of Faulkner and the Native Keystone: Reading (Beyond) the American South (2014). For her academic achievements, she has been rewarded with Fulbright, Otto Bennemann, Erasmus, and John F. Kennedy Institute Library grants.