Modern Greek Studies Association

Tatjana Aleksić

Associate Professor

Comparative Literature
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan

Degrees

2002 MA in English Literature and Theory, University Of Nis, Serbia
2007 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Principal Publications

The Sacrificed Body: Balkan Community Building and the Limits of Freedom, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Edited Volumes:

Mediated Resistance: The Struggle for Independent Mediascapes During the Yugoslav Dissolution, Tatjana Aleksić and Aleksandar Bošković, eds. Forthcoming Brill, in 2017.

Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans, Tatjana Aleksić, ed., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Ltd., UK, 2007.
Introduction & Chapter One

"The Sacrificed Subject of Rhea Galanaki's Ismail Ferik Pasha." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 27:1 (May 2009).

“National Definition through Postmodern Fragmentation: Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars.” Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ) 53:1 (Spring 2009).

"Grief Can only Be Written in One's Mother Tongue." Literature of Exile, Agnieszka Gutty, ed. New York, Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009.

"Disintegrating Narratives: Mock-historical Documentation in the Fiction of Dubravka Ugrešić and David Albahari." Bilgi University Press, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008.

"The Balkan Immurement Legend: Between Myth and a Nationalist Project." Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans, Tatjana Aleksić, ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Ltd., UK, 2007.

"Extricating the Self from History: Bait by David Albahari." MMLA Journal 39:2 (Fall 2006).

"Benevolent Racism: Can the Other Represent Itself?" Facta Universitatis, 2002.