Ana Mitrić

A member of the Jepson School faculty since 2004, Ana Mitric is responsible for integrating the study of literature into an interdisciplinary program. Her primary areas of specialization are 20th-century British literature and the history and theory of the novel. Additionally, she has backgrounds in feminist studies, critical theory and political philosophy. To traditional areas of concern for scholars of leadership, such as power, influence, authority, and ethics, she brings commitments to gender and cultural studies.

Since coming to the university from the English department at the University of Virginia, she has contributed to the Jepson School's curriculum by teaching required courses, such as Foundations of Leadership Studies and Critical Thinking, as well as by creating two new electives, Literature and Leadership: Fiction & the Moral Imagination and the Women's Movement. She also teaches the first-year Core course and serves on the Advisory Board of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.

In both her teaching and her research, she is interested in illuminating the intersections of public and private life. Her dissertation work on civility and national identity in English fiction, for instance, leads her to understand politeness as the first form of politics. Her new book project, For Civilization's Sake, looks at the work of modern British novelists in relation to historical crises of war and imperial decline and alongside texts of the period that investigate what it means--for both individuals and nations--to be civilized.