Lea Puljcan Juric

Lea Puljcan Juric's research interests include Renaissance drama, prose fiction, travel literature, histories, and cartography; Greek and Roman literature in the European Renaissance; ecoliterature and ecocriticism; colonial and postcolonial studies; and literary and cultural translation. Author of Illyria in Shakespeare’s England (FDUP 2019; paperback 2021), she has also published articles including “Illyrians in Cymbeline” (English Literary Renaissance 42.3, 2012), “‘Ragusine’ and eastern Adriatic piracy in Shakespeare’s plays” (Shakespeare Jahrbuch 148, 2012), and “Shakespeare’s ‘Bargulus, the strong Illyrian pirate’” (Notes and Queries 58.2, 2011). She has presented her work at the annual meetings of the Shakespeare Association of America, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Sixteenth Century Society, among other venues. Among her fellowships and awards are several National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute grants and a Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship in the History of Cartography; she was also selected for the Folger Institute Dissertation Seminar. She is certified in TESOL by TESOL International Association and has published essays on pedagogy. Beyond the classroom, she has worked as a translator in English, Croatian, and German and as an editor in commercial and academic publishing. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Literary Translation from Trinity College Dublin. An excerpt of her translation, with an accompanying translator's commentary, is forthcoming in the Cambridge Journal of Literary Translation.