Marina Antić
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, 19 th -century Russian Intellectual History
Hometown: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Minor: History
Courses taught/positions held:
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: Working title: Serbo-Croatian Literature and Culture and the 'East' / 'West' Cultural Paradigm
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:
"'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 2006.
"The Balkans and The Other Heading : Identity and Identifications on the Margins of Europe" Spaces of Identity (spacesofidentity.net) forthcoming 2006.
Reprint "Living in the Shadow of the Bridge: Ivo Andrić's The Bridge on the Drina and Western Imaginings of Bosnia" Pax Balkanica, Sarajevo, forthcoming 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.
Review of Embroidered with Gold, Strung with Pearls: Traditional Ballads of Bosnian Women by Aida Vidan. Slavic and East European Journal 48 No. 1, Spring 2004: 510-11.
"Living in the Shadow of the Bridge: Ivo Andrić's The Bridge on the Drina and Western Imaginings of Bosnia" Spaces of Identity (spacesofidentity.net), 3:3, August 2003.