Monograph Project "Contemporary Literary Negotiations: The Aesthetic Spaces of the Transnational"

This monograph project seeks to identify what can be termed transnational aesthetics, and explore how this aesthetics manifests itself across varied works of transnational literature - two novels, a film, and a play. These texts also encompass varied transnational spaces as their protagonists navigate Nigerian American, Polish British, Polish American and American Eurasian experiences. The theoretical framework is based on the notions of memory, longing, and bound motion, while also addressing aesthetic ties between literary works and the world outside of them.

Special Issue of American studies in Scandinavia: "Twenty Years after Shelley Fisher Fishkin's Transnational Turn"

This special issue, guest edited by Przulj, sets out to explore fresh figurations of transnational literature and aesthetics in works of fiction about America or those produced therein, and offer new perspectives on the entanglements of transnational experience and the American society at large without reducing the notion of transnational to a symbolic moniker for the various consequences of the American geopolitical position. Full issue available here (OA): https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/assc/issue/view/946/35 

Quality Work in Teacher Education Project "From Auditorium to Classroom"

The goal of this project is twofold: 1) It seeks identify the needs of teaching students with regard to knowledge integration and creating cohesion between discipline and didactics subjects and school practice, and 2) it aims to respond to these needs through creation of appropriate teaching materials that can aid the students in learning to create this kind of cohesion. Project leaders: Associate professor Sigrid Ørevik, Mari Lund Eide, and Tijana Przulj.

Lærernes dag på UiB
“Why Literature Still Matters: Close Reading against Speculation"  
Three short talks on the role of literature and close reading
Sydneshaugen skole; January 31, 2025
Lene Johannessen, Henriette Rørdal, and Tijana Przulj

Seminar for English Teachers in Upper Secondary Schools
Organized by: Fagnettverket for engelsk
The Bergen House of Literature (Litteraturhuset), 12.04.2024
"Transnational Experience in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah"

Literary Panel "Muslim Migrants in the West: a literary journey with Leila Aboulela"
Bergen Global, 14.11.2023
https://bergenglobal.no/events/muslim-migrants-in-the-west-a-literary-journey-with-leila-aboulela/ 
Watch here: https://youtu.be/oFvtjlhoarE

Przulj, Tijana. 2020. "Is Cliché the White Elephant of Romance?". Replikk 49 (Fall): 54-61. https://replikk.w.uib.no/2021/03/09/is-cliche-the-white-elephant-of-romance/ 

Fall 2024: ENG122 (BA level) - American Literature and Culture (2 lectures and 2 seminar groups)
Fall 2024:  ENG332 (MA level) - “What Is This Good For?”: Roles and Uses of Literature in a Transnational Perspective (course coordinator & lecturer)
Spring 2024: ENG125 (BA level) - British Literature and Culture (2 lectures)
Spring 2024: ENG335 (MA level) - Contemporary Scottish Literature and Its Transnational Intersections (course coordinator & lecturer)
Fall 2023: ENG332 (MA level) - “What Is This Good For?”: Roles and Uses of Literature in a Transnational Perspective (course coordinator & lecturer)

Previous teaching experience:

Spring 2022: ENG144 Literature, Culture and Society before 1900 (part-time lecturer/assistant professor; Volda University College)
Spring 2022: ENG144N Literature, Culture and Society before 1900 (part-time lecturer/assistant professor; Volda University College)
Spring 2022: MAGLU1-7 1b (third-year course for future teachers of years 1-7; part-time lecturer/assistant professor; Volda University College)
Spring 2022: MAGLU5-10 2b (third-year course for future teachers of years 5-10; part-time lecturer/assistant professor; Volda University College)
Fall 2020 & Fall 2021: ENG122 - American Literature and Culture (TA colloquia, UiB)
Fall 2020: ENG100 - Introduction to English Studies (TA seminars, UiB)

Please see Tijana Przulj | Norwegian Research Information Repository for a list of peer-reviewed publications.

Conference papers (international):

Przulj, Tijana. "Autofictional Home(-making) in Transnational Literature: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Paper presented at the 13th Biennial MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) Conference (Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities), Joensuu, Finland, June 12-14, 2024.

Przulj, Tijana. 2024. "Transnational Intersections of Time and Place in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways". Paper presented at the ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 14-17, 2024.

Przulj, Tijana. 2024. "The Transnational Selves in Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock and Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife". Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America, Stirling, Scotland, March 2, 2024.

Przulj, Tijana. "American Culture, Transnational Concerns, and Postliberal Aesthetic: A Renewal?". Paper presented at the 27th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies, Uppsala, Sweden, May 25-27, 2023.

Conference papers (national):

Przulj, Tijana. 2025. "Resistant Systems, Resistant Peers: Junior Lecturers and Peer Feedback on Teaching”. Paper presented at UiB Læringskonferanse (Bærekraft i undervisning og læring i høyere utdanning), Bergen, Norway, October 17, 2025.

Przulj, Tijana. 2024. "Aesthetic Representations of the Transnational: Transculturation and Matricial Aesthetics in Polish American Fiction". Paper presented at the ASANOR Biannual Conference (Migration, Connections, and the Creation of Transcultural Spheres), Hamar and Ottestad, Norway, October 3-5, 2024.
 

Conference panels/seminars:

"Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations". Montreal, Canada: 2024 ACLA Annual Meeting, March 14-17.