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Research Interests:
Medieval and Renaissance studies
Renaissance lyrical poetry and drama
Shakespeare
Semiology
Religion and Reformation
History of Ideas
Literary theory
Genre history
Philosophy in literature
Feminist criticism
Australian literature
Poetry
Creative writing Qualifications: - MA (Belgrade)
- PhD (Macquarie)
Honours and
Awards:
Winner, David Campbell Memorial ACT Poetry Prize 2008
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2009 (ceded)
Research Award in Areas and Centres of Excellence (RAACE) Scholar, Macquarie University and the Commonwealth of Australia, 2003-2007
Macquarie University Travel Fellowship, University of Toronto, Canada, 2007
Visiting Scholar, School of Humanities, Australian National University 2007-2009
Publications: Books
Character Ambiguity and the Novelistic Impulse in the Petrarchan Sonnet Sequence (Lewiston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, forthcoming 2009)
Journal Articles
"'Her stubborne hart to bend': the Sonnet Sequence and the Charisma of Petrarchan Hatred" AUMLA, Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (forthcoming 2010)
"'Never was I the Golden Cloud': Ovidian myth, Ambiguous Speaker and the Narrative in the Sonnet Sequences by Petrarch, Sidney and Spenser", Renaissance Studies, Journal of the British Renaissance Society (Oxford: Blackwell), Vol. 21 No. 5 (November 2007): 637-61
"'Carved in Living Laurel': The Sonnet Sequence and Transformations of Idolatry", Renaissance Studies, Journal of the British Renaissance Society (Oxford: Blackwell), Vol 21 No. 3 (June 2007)
"'Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords': Ambiguous Speaker and Storytelling in Shakespeare's Sonnets", Criticism (Detroit: Wayne State University, Summer 2007 (backdated from August 08), Vol 49 No. 3, 70-115
"A good length with my short thread: The Ambiguous Poetics of Petrarch’s Il Canzoniere", Rivista di Studi Italiani (Review of Italian Studies) Anno XXIII, no 1 (Roma: Giugno /June 2005), backdated from March 2008)
'Bugbears in Apollo's Cell': Metamorphoses of Character in Drayton's Idea and Daniel's Delia, Parergon, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 25.1 (2008)
"Personalising Petrarch: Face to Face with a 14th Century Poet" in The Wolf Poetry Magazine, Vol 3, No. 6 (London, U.K: Spring 2004)
Book Chapters
"'A satire to decay': Ovidian Myth and the Secret Rhetoric of Shakespeares Sonnets" in Rapt in Secret Studies edited by Laurie Johnson and Darryl Chalk (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2009)
"Art and Authenticity in Shakespeare's Sonnets" in Art and Authenticity in Literature edited by Jan Lloyd-Jones and Julian Lamb (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, forthcoming 2009) Additional Interests: Danijela has recently won the 2008 David Campbell Memorial ACT poetry prize. She has published two collections of poetry. Her work has been translated into Dutch, Russian and Polish.
Danijela is the author of A Personal Short History of Australian Literature (Belgrade: Balkan Literary Herald 2008), the first work of this kind to appear in the Balkans. She translates poetry between Serbian/Croatian and English and has edited numerous selections of poetry from Australia and the Balkans.
In a recent collection of essays on the reception of Shakespeare's Sonnets in Europe edited by Manfred Pfister, Danijela's translations of Shakespeare's Sonnets have been named amongst the best in the language.
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