About me

 I  come from a small country called Montenegro (it used to be one of the six republics of former Yugoslavia) located in Southern East Europe. We had a lot of rivers, lakes, many mountain peaks, and the Adriatic Sea. I used to be an English teacher there before I moved to the USA in 2007. I finished my MA in English and Communication at the State University of New York in Potsdam. I participate regularly on numerous conferences and webinars. I enjoy networking and working on my self-growth as an academic. I love to write academic papers and poems about life. I have two new scholarly works in preparation for publishing and I have written sixty-five poems, in English and Serbian. Hopefully, I will publish them shortly. One of my favorite authors is Theodore Dreiser. I published my first academic article called "The Language of Clothes in Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie” a few years ago. I am a big fan of Semiotics (the study of signs and symbols). I plan to go for a Ph.D. in English and expand my research Interpolation of Mass Culture and Successive Consumption of Material things in Our Society by applying the Semiotic approach. I am multilingual. I speak five languages and understand more than ten. My biggest passion is traveling, making new friends, and learning about their cultures. I also like various sports. I love skiing, playing basketball, tennis, badminton, biking, and hiking.

Besides writing and sports, I love teaching. It is a rewarding and appealing profession. I am an Adjunct for English Composition at New Jersey City University and Adjunct Lecturer in Communication Studies at LaGuardia Community College in NYC. Also, I teach English courses (fully online) for Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana, where I lived for a couple of years. Recently, I became engaged with COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) at LaGuardia Community College. It is one of the best pedagogical experiences I have ever had. So far, I have implemented five COIL projects in two years and a half.

New projects in this field are coming up. I am looking forward to collaborating with many professors and students across the globe.

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