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Ivana Bičak is a scholar specializing in early modern poetry and its intersections with science, medicine, and satire. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Leeds (2015) and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Exeter, Durham University, and as a guest researcher at Aarhus University’s Centre for Environmental Humanities. She has been awarded prestigious fellowships, including the LBI Research Fellowship at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute and the Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant. Currently, she coordinates ELIT 490, a senior project course.
Her research focuses on how early modern poetry engaged with anatomy, medicine, and astronomy, using archival and manuscript sources. She explores the grotesque in John Milton’s *Paradise Lost*, the influence of Roman satire on Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, and the role of humor in scientific discourse. Recent work includes studies on animal-human blood transfusion satire and anatomical poetry in Denmark and England.
Bičak’s awards reflect her interdisciplinary contributions, including grants for research at the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Santorio Fellowship for Medical Humanities. She has published widely in journals like *Renaissance Studies* and *Milton Quarterly*, and her book chapters appear in volumes such as *Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe* (Brill, 2021).
In public engagement, she has written blog posts for platforms like the Royal Society, discussing topics like Copenhagen’s Anatomy House and early modern drug satires in Spain. Her teaching spans Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, and eighteenth-century studies.
