Tatjana Aleksic

Other areas of research: Literary Theory; Postmodern Fiction; Contemporary Balkan literature, with an emphasis on Serbian and Modern Greek fiction; Balkan Film; Myth, History, and Memory; Nationalism; Postcolonialism; Exile; Issues of Identity; Gender Issues; Music.

Tatjana Aleksic received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in 2007 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2007. She is the editor of Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans (2007). Additional publications include articles on nationalism, gender, language, and myth and translations into Serbian of short fiction, haiku, and medical textbooks.  She is the recipient of research awards from the University of Michigan (2008), Serbian Ministry for the Diaspora (2008), and a Rutgers University Dean’s fellowship (2002-2004).  She is active in National Association for Slavic Studies, the American Comparative Literature Association, and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ongoing projects include a book manuscript on sacrifice, the body, and the nation.  Teaching interests in Comparative Literature include undergraduate courses on twentieth-century culture and history, women and myth, and graduate seminars on nationalism, and poststructuralist theory.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Monograph

Sacrificed Body: Balkan Community Building and the Limits of Freedom. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Edited Volumes

Mediated Resistance: The Struggle for Independent Mediascapes During the Yugoslav Dissolution, Tatjana Aleksić and Aleksandar Bošković, eds. Forthcoming Brill, in 2017.

Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans, Tatjana Aleksić, ed.Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Ltd., UK, 2007.

 Articles and Book Chapters

 “Sex, Violence, Dogs and the Impossibility of Escape: Why Contemporary Greek Film is so Focused on Family.” Journal of Greek Media and Culture, Vol. 2/2 (2016): 155-71.

“Zajednica, moć i telo” [Community, Power and the Body].Sarajevske sveske 45/46 (2014): 259-70.

 “The Body of a Political Masochist: Torture, Performance and Power in Elias Maglinis’s The Interrogation.” Modern Greek Studies: Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 16/17 A (2013/14): 505-24.

 “National Definition through Postmodern Fragmentation: Milorad Pavić's Dictionary of the Khazars.” Slavic and East European Journal(SEEJ) 53:1 (Spring 2009): 86-104.

“The Sacrificed Subject of Rhea Galanaki’s Ismail Ferik Pasha.”Journal of Modern Greek Studies 27:1 (May 2009): 31-54.

 “Of Families and Other Sacred Cows on the Serbian Screen” Scholarship as the Art of Life: Rajka Gorup Festschrift, Slavica Publishers, 2016: 33-51.

 “Making Patriarchal History Women’s Own: Eugenia Fakinou’s The Seventh Garment.” Myth and Violence in Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras, Bahun-Radunović and Rajan, eds. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011, 143-160.

Affiliation(s)

• Comparative Literature, CREES, Slavic Languages & Literatures

Field(s) of Study

• Areas of research:  Literary Theory
• Postmodern Fiction
• Contemporary Balkan literature, with an emphasis on Serbian and Modern Greek fiction. Languages: Serbo-Croatian working knowledge of French, Italian, Latin, Modern Greek