Entered Ph.D. program in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies under the auspices of the Slavic department in September 2004, Date of Ph.D. candidacy: August 2006

Previous Education: M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin - Madison, April 2003
B.A. English Literature, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, April 2000
Undergraduate Certificate in Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, April 2000.

Research Interests: Serbo-Croatian Literature and Culture, Balkan Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies, 19th -century Russian Intellectual History
Hometown: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Minor: History

Courses taught/positions held:
Instructor, University of Pittsburgh Summer Language Institute, Summer 2008
• Intensive Beginning Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian 6 week course
Graduate Teaching Assistant , Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin - Madison, September 2004 - present
• Fall semesters 2005 and 2006: First semester Serbo-Croatian / Intensive introduction to Serbo-Croatian
• Spring semesters 2005 and 2006: Second semester Serbo-Croatian / Uvod u srpsku i hrvatsku literaturu
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin - Madison, September 2003 - May 2004
• Fall semester 2003: Comparative Literature 203: Introduction to Cross-Cultural Literary Forms: Literature and Film
• Spring semester 2004: Comparative Literature 202: Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Literature: Interpreting and Rewriting the Life of Jesus Christ in Modern Literature
Dissertation Title/Topic: Post-Yugoslav Identities and the East–West Paradigm: Postcolonial Spaces on the Margins of Europe

Comparative Problematic: "European but not quite": Balkanism and the Response of the Yugoslav Intelligentsia

Languages: Serbo-Croatian (native), English (near native), Russian (intermediate reading), German (novice)

Selected Conference presentations:

“Odgovornost BiH intelektualaca,” (Responsibility of Bosnian Intellectuals) Panel discussion with Prof. Fahira Fejzic, American Corner, Sarajevo City Library, June 20, 2007.

“‘Sarajevans Shave Without Soap or Water’: Conviviality and Discourses of Multiculturalism in Sarajevo,” Weihnachts-Workshop-Wien: “Alternative Histories of Urban Consumption: Disease, Disguise, and Displacement in the Modern City,” Co-organized by University of Vienna and York University, December 14 – 16, 2006.

"'Provincialism, the Highest State of Primitivism': New Primitives and the Othering of Rural Identity in Yugoslavia," Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association 2006. "The Human and its Others" Princeton University, March 23 - 26, 2006.

"Historicizing Bosnia: Kosta Hörmann and Bosnia's Encounter with Modernity," 121 st annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 27 - 30, 2005.
"The Balkans in the Age of 'Globalization': Balkanism Revisited," Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association 2004. "Global Ethnic Networks: Old and New" University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 15 - 18, 2004.

"The Balkans as a Bridge Between East and West: Ivo Andri?'s The Bridge on the Drina and Western Imaginings of Bosnia," meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Associations: 24 th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13 -15, 2003.

Selected Publications:

"Historicizing Bosnia: Kosta Hörmann and Bosnia's Encounter with Modernity" Wechsel Wirkungen : The Political, Social and Cultural Impact of the Austro-Hungarian Occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1878-1918) , forthcoming 2009..
"The Balkans and The Other Heading : Identity and Identifications on the Margins of Europe" Spaces of Identity (spacesofidentity.net),6:2, 2006.
"Rumors of War" in Bilbija, Fair, Milton, and Payne ed. The Art of Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
"Living in the Shadow of the Bridge: Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina and Western Imaginings of Bosnia" Spaces of Identity (spacesofidentity.net), 3:3, August 2003.

Awards and Fellowships:

• Title VIII Southeastern Europe Research Fellowship – American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS), October 2006 – June 2007, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia