Zrinka Stahuljak

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Zrinka Stahuljak
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Stahuljak in 2018
Born (1969-02-27) 27 February 1969 (age 56)
Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia
OccupationHistorian
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Zrinka Stahuljak (born 27 February 1969) is a Croatian historian based in the United States. She worked as a fixer during the Croatian War of Independence and emigrated to the United States, obtaining her doctorate from Emory University becoming a scholar of medieval studies. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2020 corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, she is author of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages (2005), Pornographic Archaeology (2012), and Les Fixeurs au Moyen Âge (2020), as well as co-editor of Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World (2013). She is a full professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

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Biography

Zrinka Stahuljak was born on 27 February 1969 in Zagreb. [1] Her parents worked as musicians; her father a violist who worked with HNK Zagreb and her mother a soprano singer. [1] Her maternal grandmother was a Italian Slovene who was born in Trieste and became a postwar refugee in Croatia. [1] She was educated at the Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb, graduating in 1987. [2]

Stahuljak studied at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she specialized in English and French language and literature, and studied abroad at the University of Kansas for six months. [1] [2] Her studies at UZ were interrupted by the Croatian War of Independence, though she did graduate in 1993. [2] During the war, she worked as a fixer; Juliette Rigondet at L'Histoire noted that her time as a fixer inspired her academic work, noting that she wrote a book on medieval fixers. [1] Feeling that Croatia had beocme less open to diversity following independence, she emigrated to the United States in 1993 and returned to UK, where she got her master degree in 1995. [1] She obtained a doctoral degree in medieval French literature from Emory University in 2000. [2] After teaching at Boston University since 2001, she moved to University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, before becoming a full professor there in 2013. [2] In 2019, she became director of UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. [2]

Stahuljak specializes in Old French and how medieval literature addresses medieval society. [2] Her work includes the books Bloodless Genealogies of the Middle Ages (2005), Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes (2011, as co-author), Pornographic Archaeology (2013), By The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies (2015), Médiéval contemporain: Pour une littérature connectée (2020), and Les Fixeurs au Moyen Âge (2020). [2] She and Noah D. Guynn co-edited a volume, Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World (2013). [3] She also contributed to several books published by The J. Paul Getty Museum. [4] [5] [6] She is also series editor for Éditions Macula  [ fr ]'s Anamnèses: Médiéval/Contemporain series. [2]

In 2016, Stahuljak was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Medieval & Renaissance Literature. [7] In 2020, she was elected corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. [2]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rigondet, Juliette (2020). "Zrinka Stahuljak : formidable passeuse". L'Histoire. No. 471. pp. 30–31. ISSN   0182-2411.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Stahuljak Zrinka". www.info.hazu.hr. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Shorter Notices". Medium Ævum. 83 (1): 171–188. 2014. doi:10.2307/43633088. ISSN   0025-8385. JSTOR   43633088.
  4. ↑ Inglis, Erik (2020). "Review of A Knight for the Ages: Jacques De Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry". Speculum. 95 (4): 1209–1210. ISSN   0038-7134. JSTOR   48734405.
  5. ↑ Inoue, Noriko (2020). "Review of Grammetrical Templates in the Second Half-Line of Middle English Alliterative Verse". Speculum. 95 (4): 1207–1209. ISSN   0038-7134. JSTOR   48734404.
  6. ↑ Goehring, Margaret (2017). "Review of The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East, MorrisonElizabeth, StahuljakZrinka". Renaissance Quarterly. 70 (2): 789–790. ISSN   0034-4338. JSTOR   26560438.
  7. ↑ "Zrinka Stahuljak". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  8. ↑ Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate (2007). "Review of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: "Translatio," Kinship, and Metaphor". Speculum. 82 (1): 240–242. ISSN   0038-7134. JSTOR   20464077.
  9. ↑ Burgess, Glyn S. (2007). "Review of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: 'Translatio', Kinship, and Metaphor". The Modern Language Review. 102 (3): 850–851. doi:10.2307/20467474. ISSN   0026-7937. JSTOR   20467474.
  10. ↑ Busby, Keith (2009). "Review of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translation, Kinship, and Metaphor". Modern Philology. 107 (1): 126–128. doi:10.1086/605832. ISSN   0026-8232. JSTOR   10.1086/605832.
  11. ↑ Classen, Albrecht (2007). "Review of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages". Mediaevistik. 20: 421–422. ISSN   0934-7453. JSTOR   42586557.
  12. ↑ Lacy, Norris J. (2007). "Review of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor". The French Review. 81 (1): 158–159. ISSN   0016-111X. JSTOR   25481041.
  13. ↑ Rockwell, Paul V. (2007). "Review of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor". Medium Ævum. 76 (1): 148–149. doi:10.2307/43632322. ISSN   0025-8385. JSTOR   43632322.
  14. ↑ Reis, Levilson C. (July 2012). "Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes". French Studies. 66 (3): 383–383. doi:10.1093/fs/kns129.
  15. ↑ Theuerkauf, Marie-Luise (2011). "Zrinka Stahuljak, Virginie Greene, Sarah Kay, Sharon Kinoshita and Peggy McCracken, Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes" (PDF). Óenach: FMRSI Reviews. 3 (1): 13–22.
  16. ↑ Blix, Goran (2014). "Review of Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation". The American Historical Review. 119 (2): 615–616. ISSN   0002-8762. JSTOR   23785165.
  17. ↑ Forth, Christopher E. (2015). "Review of Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, StahuljakZrinka". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 89 (2): 336–337. ISSN   0007-5140. JSTOR   26309027.
  18. ↑ Nye, Robert A. (2014). "Review of Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation". The Journal of Modern History. 86 (3): 691–693. doi:10.1086/676720. ISSN   0022-2801. JSTOR   10.1086/676720.
  19. ↑ Quinlan, Sean M. (2016). "Review of Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 25 (1): 206–208. ISSN   1043-4070. JSTOR   24616639.
  20. ↑ Skinner, Patricia (2015). "Review of Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World". The Modern Language Review. 110 (2): 541–542. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.110.2.0541. ISSN   0026-7937. JSTOR   10.5699/modelangrevi.110.2.0541.
  21. ↑ Goehring, Margaret (2017). "Review of The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East". Renaissance Quarterly. 70 (2): 789–790. ISSN   0034-4338. JSTOR   26560438.
  22. ↑ Klosowska, Anna (2023). "Zrinka Stahuljak, Les fixeurs au Moyen Age: Histoire et littérature connectées" (PDF). H-France Review. 23 (111).
  23. ↑ Wilson, Rowan. "How middle men brought the world to medieval Europe". TLS. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
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