Tomislav Longinovic

Title: 

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature

Affiliate, Department of Comparative Literature

Education: 

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1990

Phone: 
262-4311
Language: 

Serbian-Croatian

Research Interests: 

South Slavic literatures and cultures; Serbo-Croatian language; literary theory; Central and East European literary history; comparative Slavic studies; translation studies; cultural studies.

Courses Taught: 

Serbo-Croatian; Slavic and East European Folklore; Literatures and Cultures of Eastern Europe; Critical Theory.

Selected Publications: 

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES

  • Vampire Nation: Violence As Cultural Imaginary (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011)
  • Vampires Like Us: Writing Down "the serbs" (Belgrade: Beogradski krug, 2005)
  • David Albahari, Words are Something Else, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać, edited and with an afterword by T. Longinovic (Evanston:  Northwestern University Press, 1996), 215 pp.
  • Borderline Culture: The Politics of Identity in Four Twentieth Century Slavic Novels  (Fayetteville:  University of Arkansas Press, 1993), xiii, 197 pp.
  • Co-Edited and Co-Translated Volume, with Daniel Weissbort: Red Knight: Serbian Women Songs (London: King's College/Menard Press, 1992), 125pp.

 

RECENT ARTICLES

  • “Serbo-Croatian: Translating the Non-Identical Twins,” in Translation and Opposition, ed. Dimitis Asimakoulas (Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2011), 283-295.
  • "Millennial Memories," The Other Shore (A Journal of Slavic and East European Immigrant Experience) 1 (2010): 33-46.
  • “Dziewczyna zwana Walizka: Witold Gombrowicz jako hybrida kulturowega przekladu,” in Witold Gombrowicz, Nasz Wspolczesny (Krakow: Universitas, 2010), 79-86.
  • “East-Central European Literatures, Twenty Years After,” East European Politics and Societies 23 (Nov 2009): 552 – 581 (co-authored, refereed article).
  • “Epic Masculinity Among ‘the serbs’: Mourning the Nation in the Post-Oriental Condition,” in Balkan Literatures in the Age of Nationalism, eds. Murat Belge and Jale Parla (Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2009), 91-129.

Contact Us

Slavic Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
Voice: (608) 262-3498
Fax: (608) 265-2814
slavic@slavic.wisc.edu