Jelena Pršić, Ph.D.

She was born on November 2, 1986, in Belgrade. She graduated in 2009 from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, at the Department of English Language and Literature. In 2013, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled "The Interface of the Body and the City in Virginia Woolf's Modernist Literature."

From 2010 to 2019, she taught English at the undergraduate and specialist studies at the Belgrade Higher School of Professional Studies "Sports Academy." From 2019 to 2020, she worked as an English language teacher with a doctorate at Singidunum University (Anglistics program in Belgrade and non-matriculated directions in Niš). From 2022 to 2024, she was engaged in undergraduate and master's studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Alfa BK University, as an Assistant Professor in the field of English Studies. Since 2024, she has been employed at the Academy for Hospitality, Tourism, and Wellness. She has participated in several international scientific conferences and published numerous scientific papers in domestic and international journals. She has reviewed a number of scientific papers in her field of expertise. She is the author of one monograph and editor of two conference proceedings from international conferences.

Selected References:

Monograph:
Pršić, J. (2024). Heroes and Cities in Virginia Woolf's Novels. Faculty of Foreign Languages, Novi Vidici Library, Book 11. Belgrade: Alfa BK University.

Scientific Papers:
Pršić, J. (2023). "Locks and Walks in Paul Auster's Oracle Night". [sic] - Journal for Literature, Culture, and Literary Translation, University of Zadar, Issue 2/13.
Pršić, J. (2018). "City as a Somewhere and a Nowhere: Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy", Communication and Culture Online, FOKUS – Forum for Intercultural Communication, Issue 9, pp. 221-243.
Pršić, J. (2017). "Time Lapse as Space for Contact: The Character and the City in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin". Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies (Belgrade BELLS), 9/2017. Department of English, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, pp. 145-159.
Pršić, J. (2017). "Negation of Survival in the Post-war Urban Revival: Septimus in Mrs Dalloway and Édouard in The Great Swindle", Filolog, Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka, Issue 15, pp. 347-367.
Pršić, J. (2016). "Beauty as a Reason for Life and an Ingredient of Life: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin", Communication and Culture Online, FOKUS – Forum for Intercultural Communication, Issue 7, pp. 64-75.
Pršić, J. (2015). "Popular Culture in John Osborne’s Play Look Back in Anger", Filolog, Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka, Issue 11, pp. 238-247.
Pršić, J. (2014). "The Symbolism of the Sea Building in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse", Communication and Culture Online, FOKUS – Forum for Intercultural Communication, Issue 5, pp. 187-200.

Scientific Conferences:
13th International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages Language, Literature, and Dialogue, May 2024. Presented the paper on "Dialogue in Contemporary English Language Teaching: Translation Exercises". Alfa BK University.
Round Table on the 135th Anniversary of the Birth and the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Katherine Mansfield, October 2023. Presentation on "Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: Friendship, Rivalry, and Mutual Influences." Faculty of Foreign Languages, Alfa BK University.
BELLS 90, 6th International Conference of the Department of English, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, May 2019. Presented the paper on "Locks and Walks in Paul Auster’s Oracle Night."