Dr. Nadira Puškar Mustafić, an Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature at the International University of Sarajevo, specializes in American and English Literature and cultural studies courses. She holds a PhD from Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera in Osijek and is the university's Cultural Studies program coordinator. In 2021, Dr. Puškar Mustafić was an Erasmus Exchange professor at Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey. In the summer of 2023, she received the SUSI Scholars grant from the US State Department, which included a period at the Contemporary Literature Institute in Montana, followed by study tours in New York and Washington D.C.
In 2020, Dr. Puškar Mustafić published 'Tears in the Audience: Catharsis in Contemporary Auto/Biographical American Drama,' funded by the Croatian Ministry of Education and Citadela Libri. She has authored numerous literary criticism articles in local and international journals. Additionally, Dr. Puškar Mustafić has reviewed books for the Taylor & Francis Group, demonstrating her active engagement in the academic community.