Ivana Peruško

Ivana Peruško was born in Pula in 1979. She completed her classical high school education in Pazin and graduated in Croatian and Russian language and literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. Since July 2005, she has been employed at the Department of Russian Literature, Department of East Slavic Languages and Literatures. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a lecturer in Croatian at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). In 2021, she was appointed Associate Professor at the Department of Russian Literature, Department of East Slavic Languages and Literatures. She wrote two monographs: Poetika progonstva. Gor'kij i Bulgakov između srpa i čekića (2013) and Od Oktobra do otpora. Mit o sovjetsko-jugoslavenskom bratstvu u Hrvatskoj i Rusiji kroz književnost, karikaturu i film. 1917–1991 (2018). She is the recipient of the Annual Award for Young Scientists and Artists from the Croatian University Teachers and Other Scientists Society, the International Literary Contest LAPIS HISTRIAE, and the Josip Badalić Award for her graduate thesis on Joseph Brodsky. She held a series of invited lectures on Russian and Croatian literature abroad and has published eight books of translations.