Publications

  • “Cardiogram of a City: Ivan Martinac and Topophilia of Split.” In Archivism and Appropriation in Post-Yugoslav Cinema. Eds. Nace Zavrl and Nikola Radić. Forthcoming 2026.
  • “Rules of Indifferent Places: Public Institutions and Youth in Two Croatian Films.” Studies in Eastern European Cinema. Screening Social and Economic Transformations in East-Central Europe. Eds. Constantin Parvulescu and Bogdan Popa, 2026.
  • “The South Slavic Serpent-Groom Ballad: A Myth of Rebirth.” In Dragons Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Ed. Joseph F. Nagy. Turnhout, Chicago: Brepols and Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming 2026.
  • “Sovjetski revolucionarni režiseri, američki film i disertacija koja je potresla akademski svet.” (Soviet revolutionary directors, American film, and the dissertation that shook the academic world), introduction to Petrić, Vladimir. Soviet Revolutionary Films in America (1926-1935)/Sovjetski revolucionarni filmovi u Americi (1926-1935). Transl. Aida Vidan. Belgrade and Cambridge, MA: Kinopravda Institute and Harvard Film Archive, 2024.
  • “Držić’s Magician and Lucić’s Captive Maiden: Oral Sources and the Croatian Renaissance Drama.” In Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century. Eds. David F. Elmer and Peter McMurray. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. Also in n Classics@ 14: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of Milman Parry and Albert Lord. Ed. David Elmer. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016.
  • “South Slavic Women’s Ballads.” In The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore. Ed. Margaret H. Beissinger, Oxford University Press, e-edition 2022, print 2024.
  • Lectia Application for Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian, National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland, 2022. https://lectia.app/
  • “Rajko Grlić and Cadences of Reality.” In Rajko Grlić, One More for the Road. A director’s notes on exile, family and film. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2021.
  • “Croatian Film under Ideological Pressure: The State, Its Citizen, and the Faltering Future.” Co-authored with Jurica Pavičić. In Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits. Eds. Ana Grgić and Lydia Papadimitriou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
  • “Framing the Body, Vocalizing the Pain: Perspectives by the South Slavic Female Directors.” Studies in European Cinema. Recent Quality Film and the Future of the Republic of Europe, 2018 (15:2-3): 125-145.
  • “Shredding History: Documentary and the Undocumentable in Makavejev’s Hole in the Soul.” In Mysteries of Makavejev: Eros, Ideology, Montage. Eds. Vadim Erent and Bonita Rhoads. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2018, pp. 115-125.
  • “Perceptions of Authority and Freedom in Late Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Film.” Studies in Eastern European Cinema. Europeanization in East-Central European Fiction Film and Television (1980-2000), 2017 (9:1): 33-46.
  • “Cultural-experiential approach to teaching Croatian as a second language / Kulturološko-iskustveni pristup poučavanju hrvatskoga kao inoga jezika.” In Croaticum: Savjetovanje za lektore hrvatskoga kao inoga jezika. 3 zbornik radova. Eds. Ivančica Banković-Mandić, Marica Čilaš Mikulić, Antonio-Toni Juričić. Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet, 2017: 117-129.
  • “Irresistible Irreverence: Dušan Makavejev’s Amateur Films and the Yugoslav Cine-Club Scene.” Experimental Cinema in State Socialist Eastern Europe; special issue Studies in East European Cinema, 2016 (7:1): 53-67.  
  • “Aida Begić’s Invisible Worlds.” Absinthe: New European Writing, 2013 (20): 134-144.
  • “Narratives of Otherness and Crisis in South Slavic Film / Narativi drugosti i krize u južnoslavenskom filmu.” In Komparativni postsocijalizam: slavenska iskustva. Ed. Maša Kolanović. Zagreb: Zagrebačka slavistička škola, 2013 :331-350.
  • “Gender and Genre in Traditional and Virtual Settings: Examples from the South Slavic Oral Heritage.” In Child's Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies. Eds. Joseph Harris and Barbara Hillers. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (Ballads and Songs – International Studies), 2012: 250-267.
  • “Patterns of Transmission: Mothers and Daughters in the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.” In Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario a discipulis collegis familiaribus oblatum. Eds. V. Bers, D. Elmer, D. Frame, and L. Muellner. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2012.
  • “Bosnian Poetry.” “Croatian Poetry.” “Serbian Poetry.” In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Roland Greene et al. Fourth edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 159, 319-20, 1294-1295.
  • In Contrast: Croatian Film Today. (Co-edited with Gordana P. Crnković). Zagreb, Oxford, New York: Croatian Film Association & Berghahn Books, 2012. Electronic edition Kinokultura, special issue on Croatian film, May 2011.
  • “Spaces of Ideology in South Slavic Film.” Studies in East European Cinema, 2011 (2:2): 173-192.
  • “Marin Držić i usmena riječ: tragom formule, teme i mita.” (Marin Držić and Oral Expression: Tracing Formula, Theme and Myth). Dubrovnik (Matica hrvatska), 2010 (21:4): 65-83.
  • “A Path of No Return: Goran Rušinović’s Buick Riviera.” ARTMargins. Contemporary Central & East European Visual Culture, 2010 (April).
  • Beginner’s Croatian. (Co-authored with Robert Niebuhr). New York: Hippocrene Books, 2009.
  • Beginner’s Serbian. (Co-authored with Robert Niebuhr). New York: Hippocrene Books, 2009.
  • “Srđan Golubović’s The Trap.” KinoKultura 8, 2009.
  • “Women, Gender, and Folk Singers: Eastern Europe.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Volume V: Practices, Interpretations and Representations. Ed. Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007:50-52.
  • “Capturing the Unutterable: Drago Štambuk and Languages within a Language.” Most/The Bridge, 2007 (1-2): 113-117.
  • “Armed With Words: Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian War Fiction since the 1990s.” Most/The Bridge, 2005 (1-2): 140-144.
  • Embroidered with Gold, Strung with Pearls: The Traditional Ballads of Bosnian Women. Cambridge: The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature & Harvard University Press, 2003.
  • “Danijel Dragojević.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. South Slavic Writers Since World War II. Vol. 181. Ed. Vasa D. Mihailovich. Detroit, Washington, D. C., London: Gale Research, 1997: 70-74.
  • “Milivoj Slaviček.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography. South Slavic Writers Since World War II. Vol. 181. Ed. Vasa D. Mihailovich. Detroit, Washington, D. C., London: Gale Research, 1997: 327-331.
  • “Four Marital Fights in Anna Karenina in Light of Gender Linguistic Analysis.”  Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics, 1995 (3): 159-186.