# 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](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/29974828.2026.2618850).” *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. - “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.