Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
About
Languages: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Modern Greek, French, Italian, Latin, traveller's Spanish, English.
Affiliations: Slavic Languages and Literatures
Teaching interests: I am increasingly involved with film and usually teach it through thematic courses that encompass at least a few of the cultures of my primary interest. My most recent courses have used a comparative approach to futurism by focusing on sci-fi and fantasy movies that we watch and discuss with the help of some theory (difficult, but when we work together it becomes much clearer) which provides us with a more abstract vocabulary by which we learn to discuss our complex ideas about topics raised by our movies. Other courses I have recently taught have dealt with migration and exile narratives, the Holocaust, or even vampires.
Recent courses:
- Futurist fictions and Utopia
- Migration and exile
- Violence against women
- Women in myth and myths about women
- The Holocaust and contemporary racism
Research interests: My primary area of work is the Balkans, i.e. what used to call itself Yugoslavia for most of the 20th century, as well as Greece. I am currently working on a historical media project on Cyprus.
Book publications:
- The Sacrificed Body: Balkan Community Building and the Fear of Feeedom (2013)
- Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans (editor, 2007).
Other publications:
- Media cluster in The SEEJ, Vol. 52 (editor, 2021)
- I have also published articles and book chapters on vampire cinema, political violence, language, or memory, among other topics.
