Dr Vesna Lopicic is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia. She has published a study entitled Fall into Culture: Human Nature in the Work of W. Golding and M. Atwood (2002), two collections of essays on Canadian literature and a number of course books and readers. She co-edited (with B. Mišic Ilic) the collection of essays, Identity Issues: Literary and Linguistic Landscapes, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2010). She teaches English Literature, and British and Canadian Studies courses. Her special interests are the Serbian Diaspora and the novel in English.
Dr Biljana Mišic Ilic is a Full Professor in the English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia. Her areas of academic interests include syntax, pragmatics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics. She is the author of two coursebooks on syntax, a monograph on syntax-pragmatics interface, and a collection of linguistic essays covering topics in syntax, semantics and discourse. She co-edited (with V. Lopicic) nine books of proceedings from national and international conferences, as well as Identity Issues: Literary and Linguistic Landscapes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).