Central European University A Program for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals in the Social Sciences and Humanities Summer University

Tomislav Z. Longinovic 

Education

Ph. D. , 1990, University of Iowa, Comparative Literature Program, Dissertation: "The Improbable Universe: Ideology, Identity and Borderline Poetics in the Twentieth Century Slavic Novel," Daniel Weissbort, supervisor

M. F. A. , 1984, University of Iowa, Department of English-Creative Writing, Thesis: "Moment of Silence," James A. McPherson, supervisor

B. A. , 1981, University of Belgrade (Yugoslavia) , Faculty of Philosophy, Thesis: "The Impact of Psychedelic Research on Identity Theory," Dr. Josip Berger, supervisor

Study Abroad programs

Oxford Academy of English, Oxford, England, Summer 1972, 1973

Positions held

Fall 2001 Visiting Professor, Harvard University

2001-present Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

Fall 2000 Chair, Slavic Languages, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

1999-2000 Visiting Professor, Central European University (Budapest)

1999-present Director, The Cultural Translation Project, (Global Studies, UW-Madison)

1997-99: Associate Chair, Slavic Languages, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

1996- 2001: Associate Professor, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

1990- 1996: Assistant Professor, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

1988-1989: Translation Coordinator, U. of Iowa, International Writing Program

1984-1987: Teaching Assistant, U. of Iowa, General Education in Literature Program

1983: Research Assistant, U. of Iowa, Creative Writing Program

Honors and awards

Vilas Associate, UW-Madison (1999-2000)

Ford Foundation, "Media, Performance, Identity" Research Circle Startup Grant, 1998/99

Canada Council, Literary History Project Grant, 1996-2000

IREX Short-Term Travel Grant, 1995

Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanties, U. of Wisc., 1995

Global Cultures Course Development Award, U. of Wisc., 1994

Graduate School Research Committee, U. of Wisc., Summer 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998

Hilldale Faculty-Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 1991

Best Literary Contribution in Yugoslavia, 1990

Writing Fellow, International Writing Program, U. of Iowa, 1982

Professional activity

Board Member, Banja Luka Communications College (2001-

North American Editor, New Moment, Belgrade (Yugoslavia), 1998-

PMLA Advisory Committee, 1998-2001

Executive Committee Member, "Legacies of Authoritarianism"

U. of Wisc. Faculty Research Circle, 1998-

Member, "Comparative Literary History of East Central Europe" Editorial Board, 1998-

Faculty Associate, International School for Theory in the Humanities

(Santiago de Compostela), 1997-

Member, Executive Council, Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, U. of Wisc. (1995-

Member, IREX Special Projects in Eastern Europe Selection Committee, 1995.

Member, Editorial Board, Serbian Studies, 1994-1997.

Member, MLA Executive Committee, Slavic Literatures and Cultures, 1993-1998.

Contributing Editor, Periplus (Oxford University Press), 1993-.

Advisory Editor, Modern Poetry in Translation, 1992 -.

Expert Consultant, "East European Literature," Worldwide Books Project, 1991.

Referee, books and articles submitted to PMLA, Comparatist, Northwestern University Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Peter Lang's "Balkan Series."

Member: MLA, AAASS, NASSS, ACLA, ICLA, M/MLA, AWP, Phi Beta Delta.

Bibliography

Books

Co-Edited and Co-Translated Volume, with Daniel Weissbort: Red Knight: Serbian Women Songs. (London: King's College/Menard Press, 1992), 125pp. Wrote critical introduction: "When Body Sings Itself" (15-20).

Borderline Culture: The Politics of Identity in Four Twentieth Century Slavic Novels (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993), xiii, 197pp.

Edited Volume: David Albahari, Words are Something Else, tr. Ellen Elias- Bursaç (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996), 215 pp. Edited and with an Afterword by T. Longinoviç

Articles

"Ogled o tehnologiji ljubavi." (An Experiment in the Technology of Love). Vidici. 7 (1980) : 10-14.

"Sta je staza savrsenstva," (What is the Path of Perfection?) in Damapada: Staza savrßenstva (Belgrade: Prosveta, 1981) : 7-23.

"Recnik tehnologije." (A Dictionary of Technology). Vidici. 1/2 (1981) : 1- 27. A collaborative theoretical issue banned by the Yugoslav government.

"Prince Marko's Death: Text, Performance and Desire in the Oral Tradition." Serbian Studies. 13.3/4 (1986) : 65-76.

"Images of the White City: Belgrade in the Poetry of Crnjanski and Popa." Serbian Studies. 6.2 (1991) : 91- 96.

"Anti-Apollo: Lyricism and Abjection in Life is Elsewhere," in Milan Kundera and the Art of Fiction, ed. Aron Aji, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992): 183-201.

"Eastern Europe after 1989: A Psychopolitical Analysis," in Periplus, eds. D. Weissbort and A. K. Mehrotra, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993): 164-175.

"Between Serbian and English: The Poetics of Translation in the Works of Charles Simic." Modern Poetry in Translation: New Series. 3 (1993) : 167-174.

"Postmodernity and the Technology of Power: Legacy of the Vidici Group in Serbia." College Literature. 21.1 (1994) : 120-130.

"East within the West: Ivo Andric and Bosnian Cultural Identity," in The Bridge Still stands: Ivo Andric Revisited, ed. Wayne Vucinich, (Berkeley: International and Area Studies, 1996), 123-138.

"I, Witold Gombrowicz: The Formal Imperative and the Power of Writing," in Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Form, Sexuality, Exile, ed. Ewa Ziarek (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998)

"Prastanje kao resenje za drustvenu krizu" (Forgiveness as a Solution to Moral Crisis) in Moralnost i drußtvena kriza (Belgrade: Institut za pedagoska istrazivanja, 1995), 315-326. Co-authored with Robert Enright, Elisabeth Gassin and David Loudon. Platform for conflict resolution strategies in former Yugoslavia.

"Between Serbian and English: The Poetics of Translation in the Works of Charles Simic." Charles Simic: Under Discussion, ed. Bruce Weigl (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), 148-155. (reprint)

"Artaud in the Balkans." Belgrade Circle. 1/2 (1995), 265-269.

"Literature on the Border: Trials of Central European Cultural Identity." New Moment. 8 (1997), np.

"Chaos, Knowledge and Desire: Narrative Strategies in Dictionary of the Khazars. The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol XVIII, 2 (1998), 181-190.

"Krajevi Jugoslavije: krv i pesma u ratu i miru," in Zene, slike, umisljaji, ed. Branka Arsiç (Belgrade: Centar za Zenske studije, 2000), 78-92.

"Music Wars: Blood and Song at the Ends of Yugoslavia" in Music and Racial Imagination, Ron Radano and Phil Bohlman, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).

"The Perpetual Return of the Past: Kosovo Myth and Serbian Nationalist Discourse" in Specter of the Nation, Obrad Savicc, ed. (Belgrade: Belgrade Circle, 2001), 370-395.

"Internet Nation: The Case of CyberYugoslavia" in The Public Domain (Amsterdam/New Delhi: Sarai, 2001), 117-123

Conferences Organized:

"Brothers No More", U of Wisc.-Madison (organization of international workshop with participants from the former Yugoslavia), 1999

"Translating Identities", U of Wisc.-Madison (organization of international workshop on translation studies), 1999

"Translating Cultures" U of Wisc.-Madison (organization of international workshop on translation studies), 2000