Ranka Primorac

Dr. Ranka Primorac is an Associate Professor of African Literature at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on African literatures and cultures within World Literature frameworks, examining the novel's role in negotiating modernity, socio-political crises, and spatial-temporal dynamics. She holds a BA from the University of Zagreb, a Master's from the University of Zimbabwe, and a PhD from Nottingham Trent University. Currently, she is writing *Queues of Limitless Hope*, analyzing postcolonial Southern African Bildungsroman under decolonization contexts.

Her teaching encompasses African, Postcolonial, and World Literatures, alongside novel theory and critical approaches. She has served as a reviewer for journals like Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Journal of Southern African Studies, and publishers such as Boydell & Brewer and Legenda. Active in research networks like the Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, her work challenges Eurocentric literary hierarchies by centering African narrative forms.

Primorac supervises PhD students in English literature and accepts new applicants. Her funded projects include studies on non-aligned movements in world history and the mapping of Southern African textual landscapes. She advocates for re-evaluating literary value systems to better understand African cultural imaginaries.