MGSA Survey of Graduate Students

Tatjana Aleksić

Ph. D. Candidate

Comparative Literature

Rutgers University

 


I. Degrees

MA 2002 University of Niš, Serbia (English/Postcolonial Studies)

 

BA 1993 University of Niš, Serbia (English/ Language and Literature)

 


II. Areas of Specialization

Myth and History

Memory

Nationalism

Orality and the Book

Modern Greek Novel

Contemporary Serbian Literature

Contemporary Balkan Literature

Balkan Cinema

Folklore

 

III. Principal Presentations and Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

·       Co-editor of Collection MYTH AND HISTORY IN CONTEMPORARY BALKAN LITERATURES, 2007

·       «Sacrificed for the Nation: A Mythistorical Reading of the Balkan Immurement Legend», CLS, date pending

·       ''Benevolent Racism: Can the Other Represent Itself?'', Facta Universitatis, 2002

 

Book Reviews

·       Dubravka Ugrešić, Lend Me Your Character, Balkanistica, 2007.

·       Miljan Mojašević, Južnoslovenske teme u Kotinom listu «Allgemeine Zeitung» po dopisima Vilhelma Hopea, (1831-1844) [South Slavic themes in Cotta's paper «Allgemeine Zeitung» as reported by Wilhelm Hoppe (1831-1844)], Balkanistica, 2007.

 

Translations

·       Doc. dr Gorana Rančić and dr Ivan Nikolić Histology and Embryology Practice Book, University of Niš Press, 1999.

·       Haiku poetry by Radunka Bogdanović, KŌ, JAPANESE HAIKU MAGAZINE, Fall/Winter 2001.

     

                                                                                         

Online Translations at www.towerofbabel.com

 

·       Translation of Yves Jacques' article ''St. Peter's Rock: An Afternoon in Vatican''.

·       Translation of Michael Bayer's piece of art criticism ''Bosch and Breugel:

      Analysis and Comparison of Triptych Temptation''.

·       Translation of Geither Stewart's short story ''The German Woman and the Carpenter''.

·       Translation of Jim Rovira’s article ''Babel in Biblia''.

 

 

                

Official Presentations

«The Balkan Immurement Myth», 2005 MLA CONVENTION Washington D.C., December 27-30.

 

«Recording Alternative Histories: David Albahari and Theo Angelopoulos», 2005 MMLA CONFERENCE: HISTORY, MEMORY, EXILE, Milwaukee, Nov. 10-13.

 

“A Gaze into the Balkans’ Underbelly: The Films of Emir Kusturica”, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE FILM FORUM, Nov. 27, 2004.               

 


IV. Office Address

Rutgers University

Comparative Literature

205 RAB

131 George Street

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

 

Electronic Address

[email protected]

 


V. Home Address

(no information submitted)

Home Telephone

(no information submitted)

 


VI. Dissertation/Thesis working title and topic

Defining the Nation: Myth and History in Contemporary Greek and Serbian Novel.

 

 


VII. Comments and Additional Information

 

 

Last revised May 22, 2006

 

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