Ivana Peruško

Ivana Peruško was born in Pula in 1979. She completed the Classical Gymnasium in Pazin and graduated in Croatian Language and Literature and Russian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Since July 2005, she has been employed at the Department of Russian Literature, Section for East Slavic Languages and Literatures. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a lecturer of Croatian at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU). In 2021, she was elected to the academic rank of Associate Professor at the Department of Russian Literature, Section for East Slavic Languages and Literatures. She has written two monographs: Poetika progonstva. Gor’kij i Bulgakov između srpa i čekića (The Poetics of Persecution: Gorky and Bulgakov Between the Sickle and the Hammer, 2013) and Od Oktobra do otpora. Mit o sovjetsko-jugoslavenskom bratstvu u Hrvatskoj i Rusiji kroz književnost, karikaturu i film. 1917.–1991. (From October to Resistance: The Myth of Soviet-Yugoslav Brotherhood in Croatia and Russia Through Literature, Caricature, and Film, 1917–1991, 2018). She is the recipient of the Annual Award for Young Scientists and Artists of the Society of Croatian University Professors and Other Scholars, the International Literary Competition LAPIS HISTRIAE, and the Josip Badalić Award for her graduate thesis on Joseph Brodsky. She has delivered a number of invited lectures on Russian and Croatian literature abroad and has published eight books of translations.