Smiljana Narančić Kovač

(University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Dr. Smiljana Narančić Kovač is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include comparative literature, narratology, children’s literature (contact and transfer studies), picture book theory, and teaching English to young learners. She served as the PI for a national research project about children’s literature translations (2015–2018). She published two monographs in Croatian, one a theoretical treatise on picturebooks as a narrative form (2015), and chapters in Alice in a World of Wonderlands (Jon Lindseth, ed., 2015) and The Routledge Companion to Picturebook (Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, ed., 2018). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Libri & Liberi.