Dr Ana Kocić Stanković currently works as an Associate Professor of American and African American Studies and American Literature at the English Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia.

She completed her BA studies at the English Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš and received her MA degree from the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK, in 2007. Since 2017, after defending her thesis The Collective Representations of Minority Groups in the Culture and Literature of Colonial America, she has held a PhD in Anglo-American literature and culture from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia. Besides teaching courses in American literature, history and culture (American Literature – the Classics, Drama and Poetry/Short Story; American Studies), she has designed and taught a BA elective course in African American Studies, an MA elective course called Images of Others in American Literature and Culture and a PhD elective course American Women Writers. Ana Kocić Stanković has authored a textbook The African American Experience: An Introduction (2021) and a number of papers in national and international academic journals and has presented her work at various international academic conferences and seminars.

She has been a member of The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) and The Serbian Association for the Study of English (SASE) since 2009. She is also acting president of the Serbian Association for Anglo-American Studies (UASS/SAAS) and a member of The European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and the Association for American Studies in South East Europe (AASSEE). She is the alumna of the 2023 SUSI - Study of U.S. Institutes for Scholars program of the U.S. Department of State, hosted by University of Montana. 

Her areas of academic interest include: African American literature and history, American literature – the classics and drama, American women and other minority writers and American colonial history.