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Sunčana Tuksar, Assistant Professor, PhD

Title: Assistant professor
Function:Assistant Professor; Philology (English Language and Literature) and Social Science (Information and Communication Science / Communications / Film)
Location: 12
E-mail: E-mail
Department: Katedra za strane jezike (FET)
Graduation year:1996
mr.sc. graduation year:2000
PhD graduation year:2020

Teaching

undergraduate

graduate

Consultations

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Biography

Suncana Tuksar, PhD (22-11-1972); (orcid.org/0000-0003-0550-4307) (22-11-1972) is from Zagreb. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in English Language and Information and Communication Sciences (Communicology) at Faculty of Economics and Tourism "Dr. Mijo Mirkovic" and Design and Audio-Visual Communications Study Programme at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. She teaches the following course: Film and Multimodal Competences, Transmedia Storytelling and Digital Nomads, English Language .   

S. Tuksar has completed MA in English and Literature at Faculty of Philosophy, Department of English, University of Zagreb, Croatia and received a doctorate on the topic of transmedia (narratological and semiotic) communication at J. J. Strossmayer Doctoral School of Communicology in Osijek, Croatia.

Her expertise is in the following area: 

  • Transmedia Storytelling
  • Digital nomads and transculturality
  • Research area in literary and film representations and adaptation processes 
  • Digital and visual literacy as the 21 century critical thinking 
  • Film and multimodality
  • Semiotics

The scientific and professional methods of Suncana Tuksar include:

a. Actively participating in the summer school MODE (2014) – Multimodal Methods for Analysing Communication in UCL Institute of Education University of London, UK. (URL: https://mode.ioe.ac.uk/), with lectures and activities conducted by the expert pioneers of multimodal approach, dr. Gunther Kress, dr. Theo van Leeuwen and dr. Carey Jewitt;

b. Researching by receiving the PhD research grant in Centre for Multimodal Communication, Department of Language and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (2018). She attended the Doctoral Programme for Language and Communication; Erasmus + Higher Education Learning Agreement for Traineeship;

c. Establishing the innovative narratological-semiotic methodology in Croatia for analysing and teaching transmedia and film and applying it to her course study programmes;

d. Establishing and leading an international institutional project LangComm – Languages of Communication; Transmedia Approach, with special emphasis on visual literacy and critical thinking for digital nomads as young professionals, with special regard to transcultural competences and multiplatform adaptation processes. 

Tuksar’s expertise comprises of the following:

  • (2014-present) Research area in transmedia and transcultural communication in media and film, visual literacy, multimodality and semiotics.
  • (2020) A sole holder of a PhD thesis “Transmedia and Cultural-Identity Strategies of Film Representations” in Croatia and the organization, in the field of transmedia multimodal communication.
  • (1996-2020) Scholarships and grant at Emerson College, England (dance, drama and storytelling); SDU Denmark Language and Communication Department; Fashion as Design Modern and Contemporary Art and Design Specialization, online, MoMA, New York.
  • (2020-2022) Author of two monographs in Croatian on transmedia culture and film (Prekoračenja; Transmedijska kultura i film, Unutarnji poslovi književnih figura), a university textbook in English (Happenstance 20200s: Language, Media, Communication), several book chapters, many literary reviews and newspaper articles.
  • (2024) Coauthor of a most recent monograph in English with a Provost Professor Henry Jenkins (Multiverse of Storytelling; Fashion and Film feat. Imaginary Worlds). The book aims at film and narratology schools, scholars, academic researchers and those with general interest in communication, storytelling, film, and popular culture.

 

Curriculum Vitae/Education

2021

FASHION AS DESIGN - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN SPECIALIZATION

MoMA, New York

2018

DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK – CENTRE FOR MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION

https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/c_cmc

55 Campusvej, Odense, Denmark

Higher Education Erasmus+ Trainee and Researcher in Language and Communication

Research field:

  • Transmedia Narratology
  • Storytelling
  • Film and Multimodality
  • Language and Communication
  • Social Semiotics
  • Postclassical Narratology  
  • Visual Literacy
  • Transcultural Competences 

      01/02/2015 – 01/04/2020

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) IN SOCIAL SCIENCES/INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES – COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek

3 Sv. Trojstva Sq 31000 Osijek, Croatia

http://www.unios.hr/doktorska/  

  • Scientific area: Social Sciences
  • Scientific field: Social Sciences - Information and communication science; Communicology and Mass Media

      2017

      DOCTORAL WORKSHOP UNIVERSITY OF PESC

Participant of the workshop University of Pecs, Hungary

“The Benefits of Adult Learning and Education – the Social Side of Skills Development and Social Empowerment in Research Orientations”

      2014 

      MODE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

Participant of the Summer School MODE – Multimodal Methods for Analysing Communication

UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

https://mode.ioe.ac.uk/  

Field(s) of study:

  • Social Semiotics, (Moving) Image and Digital Design
  • Multimodality
  • Digital production
  • Social Media Analysis
  • Online Platforms and Tools

      2000

      MA (Master of Arts) IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY

3 Ivana Lucica St 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

https://anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr/?lang=en  

1996 

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE CERTIFICATE OF PROFICENCY IN ENGLISH

University of Cambridge, England (ESOL)

East Grinstead, United Kingdom

1996

EMERSON COLLEGE EDUCATION STUDIES PROGRAMME

Foundation and First Year Education Studies Programme

Forest Row, East Sussex, England

http://www.emerson.org.uk/

Field of study:

  • Art, Drama, Dance and Storytelling Education

List of select publications

Recent publications  

(2025) "AI-Drive Communication: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Consumerism and Social Control in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four“. PALIMPSEST / ПАЛИМПСЕСТ: Vol. 10. No. 19 (2025).

(2024) Multiverse of Storytelling; Fashion and Film feat. Imaginary Worlds. Pula: Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. (Coauthors of the book: Suncana Tuksar and Henry Jenkins). 

(2022) Contemporary Fashion and Film; Transmedia Approach. "Fantom slobode", 2/22. Zagreb: Durieux. Book chapter. 

URL: http://durieux.hr/wordpress/fantom-slobode/ 

(2022)  “Music, Fashion and Theatre as Transmedia Dramaturgy in Woody Allen’s Film Blue Jasmine“. PALIMPSEST / ПАЛИМПСЕСТ International Journal for Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Research.  

(2022) Happenstance '20s; Language, Media, Communication. Pula: Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli. (tisak, e-knjiga); University textbook. 

(2022) „Učinci kružnog djelovanja imidža, zadovoljstva studijem, radne angažiranosti i radnih ponašanja studenata u akademskom okruženju“ / "The Influence of Circular Effect of the Faculty Image, Student Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Students Work Behaviour in Academic Environment". Nova prisutnost : časopis za intelektualna i duhovna pitanja, Vol. XX No. 2, 2022, str. 361-373.  

(2022) „Storytelling, Communication and Film in ELT; A Prototype for Developing Discursive Analytical Skills”. The Journal of Positive School Psychology , Vol. 6, No. 5, str. 7636–7653. Izvorni znanstveni rad. (Suautorski rad). 

(2021) Unutarnji poslovi književnih figura/Internal Affairs of Literary Figures. Monograph. Juraj Dobrila University of Pula.

(2021) „Chapter Four: Nostalgic Stereotypes in Ireland - The Invisible Nuances of Storytelling"; "Chapter Six: Conceptual Metaphor - Conclusion". Pula: Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, str. 123-131, 177-203.  Book chapters. 

(2021)Transgressions; Transmedia Culture and Film. Monograph. Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. 

(2021) "Unlocking Newspaper Headlines: Deconstructing the East-West Transcultural Stereotypes in Times of COVID-19". Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT); e-ISSN 1309-4653; Publisher: Karadeniz Technical University. 

(2021)" 'The Accidental Tourist' in the Context of Zoomed-in Images in the Multicultural Interpersonal Video Communication". Palimpsest, International Journal for Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Research in Stip. https://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/PAL/about. 

(2021) "Internet, multimedija i uloženi trud pri učenju engleskog jezika"/ "Internet, Multimedia and the Effort in English Language Learning". Hum, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Mostar. https://hrcak.srce.hr/hum.

(2021) "Transmedijske funkcije filmskih stilskih figura i jezičnih odstupanja od norme u informativnim televizijskim emisijama"/"Transmedia Functions of Film Literary Figures and Lexical Aberrations in TV News".  Suvremene teme / Contemporary Issues; International Interdisciplinary Journal, Zagreb, Vol. 11 No. 1, 2020, 51-67. https://doi.org/10.46917/st.11.1.3; Hrčak ID: 248821 https://hrcak.srce.hr/248821.

(2020) "Michel Houellebecq: otmica događaja"/"Michel Houellebecq: Kidnapping the Event".  Hrvatski filmski ljetopis, Croatian Film Association Zagreb. http://www.hfs.hr/novosti_detail.aspx?sif=5601#.YKplu7UzZPY.

(2018) "Film, interkulturalne vježbe i usvajanje vokabulara u nastavi engleskog jezika"/"Film, Intercultural Tutorial and Vocabulary Acquisition in EL Teaching". Journal of the Internationa Interdisciplinary Conference Media and Media Culture – European Realities / Zbornika skupa održanog 4-5 svibnja 2017; Međunarodni interdisciplinarni znanstveni skup Mediji i medijska kultura – europski realiteti, Osijek.

(2018) "Film Text in the Classroom: Exploring the Theme of Branding the Identity". Journal; International Conference 16th Days of Mate Demarin - Reaching Horizons in the Contemporary Education. Pula, Croatia.

Professional memberships

International and domestic collaborations  

2021/2022 LangComm - Laguages of Communication – Institutional Project FET/KIT. A guest lecturer within the project Erasmus+ Programme; School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechinic Institute of Porto. https://www.ipp.pt/

2021/2022 LangComm - Languages of Communication – Institutional Project FET/KIT. A guest lecturer within the project Eramsus+ Programme; University of Greenwich, London, UK. https://www.gre.ac.uk/

2021 – CURRENT ENIEDA member; European Network for Intercultural Education Activities;

Sustainability Research Centre University of Bremen, Germany. http://www.enieda.eu/; https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/artec/members/dr-sylke-meyerhuber.

2020/2021 TRICO*/UNIPU – A host to the UmA pilot-project. Stereotypes. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Master Degree in Cultural Managment, Maderira. https://www.uma.pt/en/directorio/svetlana-kurtes/.

2020/2021 TRICO/UNIPU* A host to a pilot-project guest lecturer. Multidisciplinary Enrollment Project for Graduate Students: Interdisciplinary Scopes and Focus. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Communication and Space Technologies.  https://www.fer.unizg.hr/en.

2020/2021 TRICO/UNIPU – UNINA - A host to a pilot-project. Stereotypes. Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy. Erasmus ' students' Exchange Programme http://www.unina.it.

2019 – CURRENT Multimodality and Film. J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek,

Department of Information Sciences. Participation with the module, Pregraduate Study Programme http://www.unios.hr/en/about-university/university-units/.  

2019 Politics of Identity in Film in English Language Teaching. University of Naples Federico II.

Guest lecturer at Mind, Gender and Language Course of Doctoral Study Programme

2018 'Sojourner’ and Cultural Representations in the Film Narrative. Member of the international scientific conference committee Borders&Crossings International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing. Culture and Tourism, Faculty of Interdisciplinary, Italian and Cultural Studies, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia. https://www.unipu.hr/borders2018. 

2018

Erasmus+ Exchange as Cross-Cultural Management in the English Language Programme. A host of an international guest lecturer from Faculty of Business, Management and Informatics in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. 

2018 – CURRENT HDPL member of Croatian Applied Linguistic Society. http://hdpl.hdpl.hr/home.

2017 The Art of Public Speech. Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Communicology, Osijek.

2017 J. J. Interculturality in Film – Stereotypes and Cultural Implications. A guest lectuer at J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Culturology - Film and Cultural Implications. http://www.uaos.unios.hr/eng/o-akademiji-2/.

2017 Why We Travel – Intercultural competences in Film and Some New Implications of Irish Cinematography.

A guest lectuer.at J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Culturology - Intermediality and Intertextuality. 

2016 Cultural Shock in Fiction. Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Communicology, Osijek.  http://www.unios.hr/doktorska/en/ .                                                                                                        

 

A member of an editorial team at "Libera Libera", Zagreb, ISSN 1331-9868; author of professional papers on literature, literary criticism and culture;  :

1) Tuksar, Sunčana (2017): „Opsjednutost znanjem i pitanje uporišta“, Libra Libera (40): str. 146. – 164., URL: https://issuu.com/libralibera/docs/libra_40. 

2) Tuksar, Sunčana (2016): „Internet i engleski jezik: mehanika kauzalnih zbivanja, azijski primjer i edukacija forever“, Libra Libera, (38/39): str. 89.-105, URL: http:/www.bib.irb.hr/1073700.

3) Tuksar, Sunčana (2015): "Edupunk", Libra Libera, (36): 103 - 141, svibanj 2015., URL: https://issuu.com/libralibera/docs/libralibera36.

4) Tuksar, Sunčana (2005): „Moda izvan kontrole“, Libra Libera, (16): str. 56.-65., URL: http:/www.bib.irb.hr/1073814.

II. Prevođenje, pisanje književnih osvrta, kulturno-teorijskih i komunikoloških analiza i kritika: Treći program hrvatskog radija, Libra Libera, Zarez i dr.:

1)Tuksar, Sunčana (2006): "Paco Underhill: The Science of Shopping (Zašto kupujemo: znanost kupnje)", URL: https://katalog.kgz.hr/pagesresults/bibliografskiZapis.aspx?&currentPage=1&searchById=1&sort=0&spid0=1&spv0=kupci&xm0=1&selectedId=284002490; https://mvinfo.hr/knjiga/2446/zasto-kupujemo-znanost-kupnje; http://library.foi.hr/lib/knjiga.php?sqlx=51414&sqlid=20&B=20&H=.

3) Tuksar, Sunčana (2005): "Glamorama", Libra Libera, (16): str. 56.-65., URL: http:/www.bib.irb.hr/1073817.

3) Tuksar, Sunčana (2004): “Iskupljenje u kaosu”, Zarez, URL: http://www.zarez.hr/clanci/iskupljenje-u-kaosu

4) Tuksar, Sunčana (2004): “Šiznuto, erotično, ljubavno, histerično”, Zarez, URL: http://www.zarez.hr/clanci/siznuto-eroticno-ljubavno-histericno

5) Tuksar, Sunčana (2004): "Nevina samoubojstva", Zarez, URL: http:/www.bib.irb.hr/1073848.

6) Tuksar, Sunčana (2002): “Uho, grlo, nož”, Zarez, URL: http:/www.bib.irb.hr/1073846. 

7) Tuksar, Sunčana (2002): “Spleen odrastanja”, Zarez, URL: http:/www.bib.irb.hr/1073847.

8) Tuksar, Sunčana (2002): "Pozdravite svi Nove puritance", URL: http:/www.bib.irb.hr/1073849.  

9) Tuksar, Sunčana: "Erik Davis: Don’t Look Back in Anger" (2000), Zbornik Trećeg programa hrvatskoga radija (57): str. 93.-96, 2000.; ISSN 0353-9873, URL: http://www.katalog.kgz.hr/pagesResults/bibliografskiZapis.aspx?&currentPage=1&searchById=1&sort=0&spid0=1&spv0=ep&xm0=1&nbf=1&selectedId=248000248.

 

 

**Tranmedia Interactive Communication (Online) pilot-project by Sunčana Tuksar, PhD, Higher Lecturer.

 

List of select projects

Finishe projects 

2022-2025

 LangComm - Languages of Communication; Tansmedia Approach. International institutional project at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (project leader). 

2022 

Multimodality and Transmedia. Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching and Training. Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy.  (Sole Alba Zollo, PhD Associate Professor).   

2022 - 

TRICO; Transmedia Interactive Communication (Online). Međunarodni projekt Fakulteta ekonomije i turizma "Dr. Mijo Mirković"; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli. (Prijava u tijeku); (Voditeljica: dr. sc. Sunčana Tuksar). 

2021-2023

Aspekti suvremenog japanskog jezika i kulture. Institucijski prijekt Odsjeka za azijske studije. Filozofski fakutlet. Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli. (Voditeljica: dr. sc. Dragana Špica). 

2021-2022

Suvremena hrvatska modna fotografija od 1990-ih do 2020-ih. (Ur.). ULUPUH-a i Ministarstva kulture. Zagreb, Republika Hrvatska. (Voditeljica: dr. sc. Petra Krpan)

2022

Many Languages of Communication; Multimodal Social Semiotics. Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching and Training. University of Maderia, Portugal. (Svetlana Kurtes, PhD). 

2021

English Language and Communication, Intercultural Skills and Competences, Multimodal Visual Literacy. Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Training. University of Greenwich, London, UK. (Tina Sego, PhD). https://www.gre.ac.uk/international.

2021

English Language and Multimedia Online classes: Critical Thinking Analytical Skills and Methods. Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching Training. Politechnico do Porto. Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo, Porto, Portugal (Candida Silva). https://www.esht.ipp.pt/.

2020

Intercultural Competences and Communication. Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching Training. Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy.  (Sole Alba Zollo, PhD Associate Professor).  http://www.unina.it.

2018

Fashion as Culture, Identity and Communication on Film. Erasmus + Staff Teaching Mobility Programme Rome – Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. Lecturer at the Department of Storia Culture Religioni. 

2016 

Project expert member. Embassy of Ireland Croatia. The Culture Shock Round Table Bloomsday. A round table participant and a member of an organisational board of Bloomsday Festival Project, Pula – Croatia. https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/croatia/news-and-events/2015/bloomsday-croatia/. 

2017

Project expert member. Embassy of Ireland Croatia. Intercultural Training with Film in the EL Class. A     guest speaker and a mentor of Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Culture and Tourism EL students’ team at the teacher’s symposium Bloomsday Project Croatia, Pula, Croatia. https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/croatia/news-and-events/2015/bloomsday-croatia/

2005

Project expert member. INTERNATIONAL BOARD FOR BRITISH COUNCIL IN PRAGUE; English Teaching Professionals Summer School, Podebrady, The Czech Republic. info.praha@britishcouncil.cz ; Course leader in the field of: Creative Writing in EL Class Study Programme and Film in EL Classroom

Past employments

2023. - 

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PHILOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE; ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES (COMMUNICOLOGY AND FILM) 

2010 - 2023 

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERT; SENIOR LECTURER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE  

  • Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Interdisciplinary, Italian and Cultural Studies; Department of English

1 I. M. Ronjgova St 52100, Pula, Croatia 

http://www.unipu.hr 

  • A full-time higher lecturer: English Language, Film and Intercultural Competences, English Language and Culture, Transmedia Storytelling
  • Pregraduate and Graduate Study Programme of Culture and Tourism; Pregraduate and Graduate Programme at Department of English

Main purpose of the job is to carry out research, teaching and communication within the study programme in the area of the English language, culture, communication and media

2002 - 2008 

SECONDARY EDUCATION TEACHING PROFESSIONAL

Sesvete Grammar School

7 Bistricka St 10260, Zagreb, Croatia 

  • Teacher of English
  • Mentor for students from the English Department at the University of Zagreb
  • Mentor for newly qualified teachers of English

Hobbies and interests

Examples from the media: transmedia communication, non-fiction writing and columnist, film, literary and media criticism: