Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory (profile)
Ph.D. University of Minnesota (Comparative Literature)
Teaching:
20th- and 21st-century South Slavic literature and cultural history; Yugoslav modernism; philosophy and literature; critical and social theory; literature of exile.
Research interests:
Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature; Danilo Kiš; Dubravka Ugrešić; critical theory (Frankfurt School); intellectual history.
Current book project:
The Concept of Statelessness in Second-World Literature
Publications:
- “The Subject in Palanka: The Philosophy of Parochialism and the Work of Immanent Critique.” Parochialism in Translation, special issue of EuropeNow, edited by Suzana Vuljevic, no. 52, 15 February 2024.
- “From Hard Slavic Endings to Making Things Possible: The Political in Saša Stanišić’s Prose” (with Lilla Balint). Peripheral Europes, special issue of Critical Quarterly, edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Ivana Perica, vol. 65, no. 4, 2023, pp. 40-58.
- “From Exile to ‘Retro-Utopia’: A Yugoslav Writer’s Return.” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 30, no. 2, 2021, pp. 367-386.
- “Making the world philosophical again.” Filozofija i ekonomija: [zbornik], edited by Tomislav Krznar, Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo, 2020, pp. 367-379.
- “Circuits of influence: Brodsky’s Platonov and the ontology of alienation.” History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature, edited by Asher Ghaffar, Routledge, 2019, pp. 113-129.
- “Materialist Regressions and a Return to Idealism.” Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought / Kontradikce. Časopis pro kritické myšlení, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 63-91.