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Natasa Kovacevic
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PhD in English, University of Florida
MA in English and TESOL, University of Kentucky
BA in English, University of Belgrade, Serbia
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613B Pray Harrold |
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734.487.2075
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nkovacev@emich.edu
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| Courses:
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| Novel in a Global Perspective
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| Studies in Literature and Culture |
| Women in Literature |
| Postcolonial Literature and Theory |
| Recent Trends in Contemporary Literature |
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Recent Publications: |
Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe’s Borderline Civilization, Routledge, 2008 (hardback); 2009 (paperback)
“Late Communist and Post-Communist Avant-garde Aesthetics: Interrogations of Community,” in Postcommunism, Postmodernism and the Global Imagination, forthcoming with Columbia University Press, East European Monographs series, in 2009
“Anti-Communist Orientalism: Shifting Boundaries of Europe in Dissident Writing,” in In Marx's Shadow: Knowledge, Power and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia, forthcoming with Lexington Press in 2009
“Yugoslavia, an ‘Almost Forbidden Word’: Cultural Policy in Times of Nationalism,” article-interview with Dubravka Ugrešić, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist theory 17.3 (2007): 299-315.
“History on Speed: Media and the Politics of Forgetting in Milan
Kundera’s Slowness,” Modern Fiction Studies 52.3 (Fall 2006): 634-55.
“Beyond the Politics of Emancipation: Radical (Im)Possibilities in
Virginia Woolf,” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, 16.3 (2005):
333-57.
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| Research Interests: |
| Postcolonial literature and theory
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| Comparative British/American and Eastern European literature
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| Multiculturalism, globalization, neoimperialism |
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