Short Bio:

Prof. Tatjana Srceva-Pavlovska is an Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, AUE- FON University in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. Her first professional roles include secondary education English instructor; as well as Junior PR Officer, Ministry of Defence, writing and translating articles for the Ministry’s official web page, as well as translating the written correspondence for the Minister of Defence and the Chief of General Staff of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia.

At present, she is a professor and researcher at AUE-FON, teaching number of elective courses in American/British literature, Literature and Visual Arts, Intermediality and Semiotics, Business Ethics and Communication. Her main research interest is within the field of literary criticism, literature and visual arts, gender studies, as well as the presentation of suicidality, witchery and the subversiveness of female madness in literature; abortion/reproductive rights. She is an alumna od the U.S. Department of State SUSI Program – Study of US Institute on Contemporary American Literature 2016, at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Since 2018 onwards, Prof. Srceva-Pavlovska has been an expert consultant and a national curricula designer/developer for the Bureau for Development of Education of Republic of North Macedonia, being a part of the team of experts developing the national English language curricula for primary education and secondary (vocational) education. Prof. Srceva-Pavlovska is a published, professional literary translator and has taken part as an instructor in the Competition for the best student translation award and student residency for literary translation “Babylon – New Generation” 2024, sponsored by the EU House. Also, Prof. Srceva-Pavlovska is a co-founder/member of the EFACIS- Macedonia (European Federation of Associations and Centers of Irish Studies) and she took an active role participating with a group of students from AUE-FON at the EFACIS Project Literature as Translation IV: Translating Anne Enright.

Since February 2018, Prof. Srceva-Pavlovska has been a member of the editorial board and the team of journalists of the MAAA (Macedonian-American Alumni Association) for the MAAA’s Newsletter. She was also a participant at the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School ”Text and Context” – Modernism, SUISS 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland, 07/08/2019 – 07/21/2019 and an active member of the Russian Society for American Culture Studies, as well as regular attendee at the international scientific conferences organized by the University of Lomonosov, the Faculty of Journalism and the Russian Society for American Culture Studies in Moscow, Russia.

Prof. Srceva-Pavlovska has been a visiting scholar at the Department for Translation and Interpreting at ‘Blaze Koneski’ Faculty of Philology, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, since February 2023.

Prof. Srceva-Pavlovska has published several books/monographs in English and Macedonian: Nedelkoska, G., Srceva-Pavlovska, T., Kardaleska-Radojkova Lj. (2024) Required Reading is NOT a Bogey, IKONA Skopje (Macedonian); Srceva-Pavlovska, T. (2023) Speculum of The Crazy Woman, IKONA Skopje (Macedonian); Srceva-Pavlovska, T. (2018). On Female Madness. Saarbrücken: LAP, Lambert Academic Publishing. (English); Srceva-Pavlovska, T. (2017). On Female Wilderness. Saarbrücken: LAP, Lambert Academic Publishing. (English); Srceva-Pavlovska,T. (2014). Za ženskata divina. Skopje: DataPons. (Macedonian)

Course that she been teaching and courses she is teaching currently:

• American literature 1,2
• British/English literature 1,2,3,4
• Modern English language 1,2
• Intercultural Communication
• Literature and Visual Arts
• Intermediality and Semiotics
• Business English language
• Business Ethics and Communication

Subjects and research fields of BA, MA, or PhD thesis she supervised and is interested in supervising:

• American and British literature
• American and British civilization and culture
• Feminist, gender studies

Main research interest is within the field of literary criticism, feminism and gender studies as well as the presentation of suicidality, witchery and the subversiveness of female madness in literature; abortion and reproductive rights

List of published articles (academic journals), texts (in edited books) and books, exhibitions and audiovisual works

Published books/monographs:

Visualization of the politics of tolerance: women’s non-verbal message in the “Edificio de mujeres” women’s building mural in San Francisco

VIZIONE, Nr. 40/2023 pp.55-64 January 2023

ISSN: 1409-8962 (printed) ISSN: 1857-9221 (electronic)

Environmentalist Issues in Zazen: Individual and Collective Contamination in Veselka’s Dystopian World

Srceva-Pavlovska, T.; Voronchenko, T.; Fyodorova, E.

VIZIONE, Skopje, Vol. 39 August, 2022

ISSN 1857 – 9221 (electronic form)

In Search for Identity: Discourse of the Future in Modern Dystopia by Vanessa Veselka’s Zazen and Alejandro Morales’ The Rag Doll Plagues

Srceva-Pavlovska, T.; Voronchenko, T.; Fyodorova, E.

Politology Bulletin of ZabGU, 2022 Vol. 28. No. 6

Transbaikal State University, Chita, the Russian Federation

УДК: 321.01 DOI: 10.21209/2227­9245­2022­28­6­45­55

Double jeopardy – being a woman and radical Suicide as liberation tool in Atwood’s The Testaments – Филологическое образование и современный мир – Забайкальскйй государственный унйверсйтет, 2021 Transbaikal State University, Chita, the Russian Federation, July 2021;

When PRO-choice becomes ANTI-democratic notion: Pro-life lessons on violence in A Book of American Martyrs by J.C. Oates – International magazine for social sciences VIZIONE, Skopje, July 2021;

Prosopopoeial poetry of a personal prophetic transfiguration -Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” and David Bowie’s “Lazarus” (in process of publication) Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Russian Federation, 2021;

Disneyfication of the (b)witches – feminist perspective on past and present witchcraft International magazine for social sciences VIZIONE, Skopje, September 2020;

Female madness as a sub-element of gothic and fantastic literature ESIDRP Proceedings e-volume, Skopje, June 2020 DOI / УДК: 305-055.2:821.111-31;

Judith Shakespeare’s imaginary ”off the road” feminist rewriting of On the Road International magazine for social sciences Spectrum, May 2020;

(Re)naming and identity issue in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake vis-à-vis The Republic of Macedonia’s name change International magazine for social sciences VIZIONE, Skopje, March 2019, pp 225-235. Vol. 32, ISSN:1857- 9221;

The Mystical nature (the wild zone) of the woman in literature, International Scientific Journal HORISONS September 2014, Bitola, Vol. 15, pp 179-191. ISBN: 305-055.2:821;  

Fusion of literature and social media: fact or fiction? International magazine for social sciences VIZIONE, January 2017, Skopje, Vol. 27, pp 83-91. ISSN 1409-8962/ISSN1857-9221;

Intertextual female madness fighting conformism – reflections on subversiveness in sequels, International Scientific Journal HORISONS, Bitola, December 2017, Series A, Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 21, pp 259-269, ISSN 1857-9884;

The metaphor or silence and the madness of the Macedonian literary woman, International magazine for social sciences VIZIONE, Skopje, July 2018, pp 57-67. Vol. 30, pp 57-67. ISSN: 1409-8962

Published translation and other:

• A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh, Makavej, Skopje, October 2023 (print, e-book, and audio book) ISBN – 978-608-205-520-6
• Katherine Mansfield, “Je Ne Parle Pas Français“ – Knizevno zitie: spisanie za knizevnost, umetnost i kultura, Makavej Skopje, September 2023, p.154 ISSN – 1857-5730
• Vladimir Nabokov, Mary, IKONA Skopje, 2023
• Kate Chopin, The Awakening, IKONA Skopje, 2022   ISBN – 978-608-4993-11-7
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, IKONA Skopje, 2020, ISBN – 978-608-66669-1-0
• Rozita Zakeva, Desire, a poetry collection, 2024 (Macedonian into English)
• Compendium of texts and materials for Business English 1 and Business English 2 undergraduate and graduate courses, 2022