Valentina Markasović (1997) graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia with a BA and MA in History and English Language and Literature. She currently works there as a teaching assistant and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Literature and Cultural Identity program. She also works as an English teacher and a freelance translator. Her primary fields of interest are popular and fantastic literature, children’s and young adult literature, with a focus on the representation and construction of women’s identities.