Prof. Sabrina Fava
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Università del Sacro Cuore), Milan
Sabrina Fava is Full Professor of History of education and Children’s Literature, Faculty of Education, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milan, Italy. Member of international scientific boards and editorial boards for academic publications, her research fields include history of children’s literature and publishers; history of reading education and history of education. Her publications include: Piccoli lettori del Novecento (2015) (SIPED Italian Pedagogy Prize, 2016); «Fairy tales in Italy during the 20th Century and the translation of Tales of long ago» (2017) (Cirse International Prize, 2017); «Italian Readers of Il Giornalino della Domenica and Il Passerotto between the Great War and the Fiume Endeavour», Libri&Liberi (2018); «Adriano Olivetti’s notion of “Community”: transforming the factory and urban physical space into educational spaces», Ricerche di Pedagogia e didattica, (2020); «Dux di Margherita Sarfatti: costruzione del mito e propaganda ideologica rivolta all’infanzia», History Of Education & Children’s Literature, (2022).
Prof. Dorota Michulka
University of Wrocław, Wrocław
Associate Professor at the University of Wrocław in Poland (Institute of Polish Studies), literary scholar and historian; Head of Department of Polish Language Education; she is a member of Section of Education in Polish Scientific Academy, member of IRSCL and Advisory Board of „The Child and the Book“ Conference; she was a lecturer of Polish literature and culture at the University of Tampere, Finland (2000-2005); she was a fellow of universities in USA (e.g. Wesleyan Illinois University in Bloomington) and in Germany ( e.g. Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich); she published more then 190 articles on children’s literature and education in Poland and abroad (e.g. in Brill, Routledge), and edited 18 books (include 2 monographs) in Poland and abroad; she is editor -in -chief of international journal of children’s literature – cultural mediation – anthropology of childhood “Filoteknos”. Currently, she is the leader of the Polish-German scientific project financed by the NCN and DFG “Growing up in transnational families. “Good childhood” from children’s perspective”
Full Prof. Vinko Brešić
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Vinko Brešić (Livno, 1952), literary historian, finished primary school and grammar school in Slavonski Brod, studied literature and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb), where he began his academic career at the Department of Modern Croatian Literature (from 1976 till his retirement in 2020). He published about thirty scientific-professional books, about five hundred articles and several newspaper feuilletons, and he led several scientific-research and publishing projects. Some of his most significant books are: Dobriša Cesarić (1984), Autobiographies of Croatian Writers (1997), Slavonic Literature and New Regionalism (2004), Reading Magazines (2005), Croatian Literary Magazines of the 19th Century (2006-07), The Collected Works of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić – critical edition (1-7/2010-20) and Croatian Literature of the 19th Century (2015; 2019). He received several awards and recognitions for his work. On various occasions, he wrote about topics dealing with Brod- mostly about D. Tadijanović and I. Brlić-Mažuranić (Ivana&Tadija, 2024).
Full Prof. Berislav Majhut
Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
Berislav Majhut is Full Professor. His primary research interest is the history of Croatian children’s literature. He is the editor of the first critical edition of a work of Croatian children’s literature, The Marvellous Adventures of Hlapić the Apprentice, published in 2010 as part of The Collected Works of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (edited by Vinko Brešić). Next to other scientific monographs on children’s literature research, he is the author of the book In the Emperor’s Mission, 2016. Berislav Majhut is the first chairman of the Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature. Furthermore, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Libri & Liberi: Journal of Research on Children’s Literature and Culture.
Assoc. Prof. Sanja Lovrić Kralj
Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
Sanja Lovrić Kralj is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb. In 2014, she defended her PhD thesis Paradigms of the 1930s in Croatian Children’s Literature. Her primary research interests are children’s literature, history of Croatian children’s literature, bibliography and popular culture. As junior researcher, she worked on the project Croatian Bibliography of Children’s Books until 1945, led by Full Prof. Berislav Majhut. On two occasions, she was a researcher on the project The Collected Works of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (critical editions), led by Full Prof. Vinko Brešić. From 2015 to 2018, she was a researcher on the project BIBRICH (Building Intercultural Bridges through Children’s Literature Translations: Texts, Contexts and Strategies), led by Assoc. Prof. Smiljana Narančić Kovač, funded by the National Science Foundation. She is a co-editor of two anthologies dedicated to the works of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić: “Hlapić the Apprentice” from the Wonderful to the Miraculous (2015) and The Century of “Tales of Long Ago” (2018). Together with Berislav Majhut, she published two author’s books – Around Croatian Children’s Literature (2020) and Our Children’s Literature: Croatian Children’s Literature in Yugoslavia 1945 – 1955 (2022). From 2010 till 2019, she was the secretary, and since 2019, she is the Chair of the Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature.
PhD Jasna Ažman
University of Slavonski Brod
Jasna Ažman, PhD (Slavonski Brod, 1954), graduated in comparative studies and Russian studies, with a master’s degree and a PhD in Croatian studies, senior lecturer for technical foreign language and culture of the Croatian language at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod, and since 2001 she taught courses in children’s literature at the Dislocated Study of the Faculty of Teacher Education in Slavonski Brod (University of Osijek). In addition to teaching and scientific work, she published a number of articles in scientific and professional journals, and edited numerous books of authors from Brod, including Tadijanović’s Poems from Brod and Rastušje (Pjesme brodske i rastuške) (2006). The main area of her literary and research interest is Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, which – in addition to her doctoral dissertation and several articles – is evidenced by her activities in popularizing the life and work of her famous fellow citizen – from Brod Diaries of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (Brodski spomenari Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić), staged 29 times as part of the event In the world of fairy tales of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (U svijetu bajki Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić), and the book of the same title (2008), through the monograph Villa Brlićevac in Brodsko Brdo (Vila Brlićevac u Brodskom Brdu) (2007) to the Library of Ivana at the Branch of Matica hrvatska and her involvement in the project of Ivana’s collected works. She prepared Letters to her Mother (Pisma majci) (1892-1901), volume VII., published in 2020. Since 2000, she has been the editor of the Yearbook (Godišnjak) of the Branch of Matica hrvatska, Slavonski Brod.
Assoc. Prof. Dubravka Zima
Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Dubravka Zima was born in Zagreb, where she finished Classical Grammar School and graduated from the Department of Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb), where she received her master and doctorate degree. She works as Associate Professor at the Department of Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies. She published the following books: Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (Zagreb, ZZOK, 2001), Shorter People: The History of Children’s Character in Croatian Children’s Novel (Zagreb, Školska knjiga, 2011), Experience of the World: Biography of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (Zagreb, Naklada Ljevak , 2019), Girls in Cities: On Female Adolescence in 19th Century Croatia (Zagreb, Naklada Ljevak, 2022), and the co-authored book with Marijana Hameršak An Introduction to Children’s Literature (Zagreb, Leykam international, 2015). Her primary research interests are Croatian and world children’s and adolescent literature, childhood studies, girls’ studies and related topics.