Igor Grbić, Associate Professor, PhD

Title:	Associate professor
E-mail:	E-mail
Department:	Odsjek za anglistiku

Teaching

undergraduate

• Introduction into Asian Studies 1 (150326) - Lecturer in charge
• Introduction into Asian Studies 2 (150332) - Lecturer in charge
• Literary Experiences of South and East Asia (169497) - Lecturer in charge
• Literary Realism (200843) - Lecturer in charge
• Literary Reviews (213330) - Lecturer in charge
• Literary Translation (213662) - Lecturer in charge
• Literatur of the Romanic period (189420) - Lecturer in charge
• Modern British Literature (200850) - Lecturer in charge
• Modern British Literature (213329) - Lecturer in charge

graduate

• Contemporary Novel in World Literature (53077) - Lecturer in charge
• Literary Review (147000) - Lecturer in charge
• Literary Review (212880) - Lecturer in charge
• Translation Exercises (228162) - Lecturer in charge
• Translation Exercises (255727) - Lecturer in charge
• Translation Exercises 2 (Literary Texts) (257105) - Lecturer in charge

Biography

Born in Pula, Croatia, in 1970. B.A. in English and indology. Croatian lecturer at the University of New Delhi in 1997/8, then free-lance writer, teacher and translator. Ph.D. in theory and history of literature (A Jungian Interpretation of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India: Indian and Western Visions of the Ego, Soul, Self). Assistant Professor at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. His scholarly interests include myth and archetypal criticism, relations between literary and non-literary realities, and traditional literary theories and practices, with a particular accent on India. Besides scholarly papers published at home and abroad, to his credit are over twenty books and dozens of other texts translated from English, Italian, German, French, Hindi and Sanskrit, many of which he has provided with a preface and notes. To his credit is The Occidentocentric Fallacy: Turning Literature into a Province (Cambridge, 2018), dealing with problems in establishing world literature as such. He has also written a number of lexicographic units covering Indian literature. As poet, fiction writer and essayist, he has published six books, besides many texts in various magazines and on the radio. He has been awarded for his literary and translation work, both at home and internationally, and has himself been translated into several languages.