CURRICULUM VITAE

GORDANA P. CRNKOVIĆ

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media University of Washington, Seattle

EDUCATION Ph.D., Stanford University. Program in Modern Thought and Literature. 1993. Ph.D. Thesis: “American, English and Eastern European Literature Against Closure: A Dialogical Perspective.”

M.A., Stanford University. Program in Modern Thought and Literature. 1991. M.A. Qualifying Essay: “Presentation of ‘the Other’—a Yugoslav Video in San Francisco.”

B. A., University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Comparative Literature. 1986. B.A. Thesis: “Crime and Punishment as a Gnoseological Aspect in Döblin's Berlin-Alexanderplatz.”

B. A., University of Zagreb. Philosophy. 1986.

PUBLICATIONS BOOKS

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film: Fires, Foundations, Flourishes. London and New York: Continuum/ Bloomsbury, 2012. Peer reviewed. 301 pages. Paperback edition: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

In Contrast: Contemporary Croatian Film Today. Co-editor with Aida Vidan. Zagreb: Croatian Film Association, and New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. 263 pages. Electronic version published in KinoKultura, Special Issue no. 11, May 2011.

Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!: The American Impact on European Popular Culture, since 1945. Co-editor with Sabrina P. Ramet. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. Peer reviewed. 264 pp.

Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2000. “Rethinking Theory” series. Peer reviewed. 164 pages.

VIDEO Zagreb Everywhere. An experimental video and an unorthodox lecture on the city of Zagreb, Croatia. Produced by MiroJoy group, Seattle. Texts and reading Gordana P. Crnković. Video art Victor Ingrassia. Soundscape David Hahn. Premiered at the University of Washington, Seattle, May 23, 2001. Multiple public projections in the US and abroad, also presented at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (Paris, Feb 2003, Berlin, Nov 2003). 49-minutes-long. http://vimeo.com/45275095. Sample clips (in Quick Time format) from this video can also be viewed at: http://www.victrolux.com/L2/zagreb/Zagreb_Everywhere.html

BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES “A Betrayal of Enlightenment: EU Expansion and the Estonian Border State.” In Andrew Hammond, ed., The Novel and Europe: Imagining the Continent in Post-1945 Fiction. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, October 2016.

Gordana P. Crnković – CV 2 “Reclaiming Charisma, Resetting the Senses: Vladimir Arsenijević’s In the Hold.” In Serbian Studies Research, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015, pp. 151-165.

“Mothers of Invention: Milcho Manchevski’s Delightful Icons.” In Maria Hristova, guest ed., KinoKultura, Special Issue 15: Macedonian Cinema (August 2015), at http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/15/crnkovic.shtml

“Ja sam ti, ti si ja: o oslobađajućem antinacionalizmu.” In Maša Kolanović, ed., Komparativni postsocijalizam: Slavenska iskustva. Zagreb: Zagrebačka slavistička škola, 2013, 351-366. Book chapter.

“Nenacionalistička kultura, u podzemlju i na površini.” In Reneo Lukić, Sabrina P. Ramet, Konrad Clewing, eds., Hrvatska od osamostaljenja: Rat, politika, društvo, vanjski odnosi. Zagreb: Golden marketing—Tehnička knjiga, 2013, 223-240. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“Suvremena hrvatska književnost: pod Orwellovom zvijezdom.” In Reneo Lukić, Sabrina P. Ramet, Konrad Clewing, eds., Hrvatska od osamostaljenja: Rat, politika, društvo, vanjski odnosi. Zagreb: Golden marketing—Tehnička knjiga, 2013, 259-281. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“Vibrant Commonalities and the Yugoslav Legacy: a Few Remarks.” In Radmila Gorup, ed.: After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013, 123-134. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“O studiju južno-slavenskih književnosti i o opstanku studija književnosti uopće” [“On the Studies of South Slavic Literature and on the Survival of the Studies of Literature in General”]. Sarajevske Sveske [Sarajevo Notebooks] 35-36, January 2012, at: http://www.sveske.ba/bs/content/o-studiju-juznoslavenskih-knjizevnosti-i-o-opstanku-studija- knjizevnosti-uopce. 7 pages. Article.

“O Nedžadovim američkim predavanjima” [“On Nedžad's American Lectures”]. In Nedžad Ibrahimović's O poeziji, pticama i drugim varkama [On Poetry, Birds, and Other Shams]. Sarajevo: Rabic, 2011, pp. 117-123. Afterword.

“Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain and the Ethics of Listening.” Slavic Review vol. 70, no. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 116-136. Peer reviewed. Article.

“The Poetry of Prose, the Unyielding of Sound.” In Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin, eds., The Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 79-94 and 303-308 (notes). Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“The Border Guard’s Focus and the Women’s Diversions: Insights of the New Slovenian Film.” In Ksenija Vidmar Horvat, ed., The Future of Intercultural Dialogue: Views from the In-Between. Ljubljana: Znanstvenoraziskovalni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, 2008. 22 pages. Book chapter.

“Contemporary Croatian Literature: Under the Star of Orwell.” In Sabrina P. Ramet, Konrad Clewing, Reneo Lukić, eds., Croatia since Independence: War, Politics, Society, Foreign Relations. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008, pp. 269-292. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“Non-Nationalist Culture, Under and Above the Ground.” In Sabrina P. Ramet, Konrad Clewing, Reneo Lukić, eds., Croatia since Independence: War, Politics, Society, Foreign Relations. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008, pp. 233-250. Peer reviewed. Book chapter. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 3 “The Battle for Croatia: Three Films by Vinko Brešan.” In Sabrina P. Ramet and Davorka Matić, eds., Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value Transformation, Education & Media. Texas A & M University Press: College Station, 2007, pp. 247-275. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“Vladimira Arsenijevicia Pod pokładem: Zadziwiający bohaterowie i wyzwania serbskiej transformacji.” [Polish translation of “Vladimir Arsenijević’s In the Hold: Charismatic Characters and the Challanges of Serbian Transition.”] In Halina Janaszek-Ivaničková, ed., Literatury słowiańskie po roku 1989 w dialogu z Europą i światem. Nowe zjawiska, tendencje, perspektywy, t. I. Transformacja. [Slavic Literatures After 1989, vol. 1.] Warsaw: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, 2006, pp. 222-230. Book chapter.

“‘Bitka za Hrvatsku’: tri filma Vinka Brešana” [translation of ‘The Battle for Croatia’: Three Films by Vinko Brešan]. Published in Croatian in Davorka Matić and Sabrina P. Ramet, eds., Demokratska tranzicija u Hrvatskoj: transformacija vrijednosti, obrazovanje i mediji [Democratic Transition in Croatia: Transformation of Values, Education and Media]. Zagreb: Alea, 2006, pp. 213-239. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“From the Eye to the Hand: the Victim’s Double Vision in the Cinema of Roman Polanski.” Kinoeye: New Perspectives on European Film 4:5, 29 Nov 2004. Polish Cinema issue, part 1. Article, 60 pages. http://www.kinoeye.org/04/05/crnkovic05.php

“Inscribed Bodies, Invited Dialogues, and Cosmopolitan Cinema: Some Brief Notes on Agnieszka Holland.” Kinoeye: New Perspectives on European Film, 4:5, 29 Nov 2004. Polish Cinema issue, part 1. Article, 27 pages. http://www.kinoeye.org/04/05/crnkovic05_no2.php

“Croatian literature,” “Macedonian literature,” “Serbian literature,” “Ivan Gundulić,” “Miroslav Krleža,” “August Šenoa,” “Ivo Andrić,” “Petar Hektorović.” Primary contributor in charge of writing, revising, or enlarging these entries. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2005. Online 2004 at http://www.britannica.com. Encyclopedia entries. Apx. 17 pages.

“About 100 Pairs of Pants and Oil.” Interview with Gordana Crnković interspersed with text of her lecture on “Globalization and World Literature,” given at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2003. Župa: Magazine of the Society of the Academic Thought ODPILK, Ljubljana, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 18-23. An interview.

“Retrieving a Picture from Motion (on Zagreb Everywhere).” Kinoeye: New Perspectives on European Film 3:10, 29 Sept 2003. Article, 6 pages. http://www.kinoeye.org/03/10/crnkovic10_no2.php

“Farewell, My Love (Vesna Ljubić’s Adio kerida, 2001).” Kinoeye: New Perspectives on European Film, 3:10, 29 Sept 2003. Article, 15 pages. http://www.kinoeye.org/03/10/crnkovic10.php

“American ‘Utility’ vs. ‘Useless’ Reflection: On Possible Futures on Both Sides of the Atlantic.” In Sabrina P. Ramet and Gordana P. Crnković, eds., Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!: The American Impact on European Popular Culture, since 1945. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, pp. 9-12. Peer reviewed. Book introduction.

“Have a Nice Day: from the Balkan War to the American Dream and the Things that Shape the Way We See Each Other.” In Sabrina P. Ramet and Gordana P. Crnković, eds., Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!: The American Impact on European Popular Culture, since 1945. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, pp. 158-172. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

Entries for Croatian and Serbian women writers whose work is translated in English (Drakulić, Parun, Ugrešić, Velmar-Janković, Vrkljan). In Jane Eldridge Miller, ed., Who's Who in Contemporary Women Writing. London and New York: Routledge Press, 2001. 8 pages. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 4

“Underground Anti-Nationalism in the Nationalist Era.” In Vjeran Pavlaković, ed., Nationalism, Religion, and Culture in Croatia in the Tuđman’s Era, Donald W. Treadgold Papers no. 32. Seattle: Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 2001. 25 pages. Peer reviewed. Article.

“Women Writers in Croatian and Serbian Literatures.” In Sabrina Petra Ramet, ed., Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999, in “Post-Communist Cultural Studies” series, pp. 221-241. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“Gender Construction in Literature: a Historical Survey. In Sabrina P. Ramet, ed., Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999, in “Post-Communist Cultural Studies” series, pp. 243-258. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“John Cage: ‘No One Can Have an Idea Once He Starts Really Listening.’” [“John Cage: Jednom kad zaista počnete slušati, na um vam neće pasti ideje. “] Književna smotra: Časopis za svjetsku književnost 31.1 (1999), pp. 49-58. Zagreb: Croatian Philological Society, 1999. Article.

“An Interview with Agnieszka Holland.” Film Quarterly 52.2 (Winter 1998-99), pp. 2-9. Berkeley: University of California Press. An interview.

“George Orwell: 1999, Croatia.” Zarez (Zagreb) March 1, 1999, pp. 36-37. Article.

“Two women writers and a changing Eastern Europe.” In Nina A. Efimov, Christine D. Tomei, Richard L. Chapple, eds., Critical essays on the prose and poetry of modern Slavic women. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998, pp. 43-65. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

“On Nations and the ‘Global Village.’” 2B/To Be: A Journal of Ideas 11-12 (Chicago, IL: The American Institute of Polish Culture, 1997, pp. 105-109. Article.

“Death and the Maiden.” Film Quarterly 50.3 (Spring l997), pp. 39-45. Berkeley: University of California Press. Peer reviewed. Review article.

“Turning Life into Poetry: What Can America Learn from Eastern Europe?” 2B/To Be: A Journal of Ideas 4.9-10. Chicago, Il: The American Institute of Polish Culture, 1996, pp. 104-107. Article.

“Ex Ponto and Unrest: Victimization and ‘Eternal Art.’” In Wayne S.Vucinich, ed., Ivo Andrić Revisited: the Bridge Still Stands. Berkeley, CA: IAS, UC Berkeley, 1995, pp. 63-81. Book chapter.

“Utopian America and the Language of Silence.” In Charles Junkerman and Marjorie Perloff, eds., John Cage: Composed in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 167-187. Peer reviewed. Book chapter.

"Communicating the War in Croatia: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Studies.” In Kerstin Behnke and Pericles Lewis, eds.,VanishingPoint:Aesthetics/Discipline(s)/Politics. Stanford: Comparative Literature Department, Stanford University, 1994, pp. 57-68. Article.

“Why Should You Write About Eastern Europe, or: Why Should You Write About ‘the Other’?” Feminist Issues 12.2 (Fall 1992), pp. 21-42. Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers University. Peer reviewed. Article.

“That Other Place.” Stanford Humanities Review 1.2-3 (Fall/Winter 1990), pp.133-140. Article.

Gordana P. Crnković – CV 5 “Postmodernism and the Avant-Garde.” Radio Station 101, Zagreb, 1986. 5 pages. Article.

FORTHCOMING and UNDER REVIEW Miranda Jakiša and Nikica Gilić, eds. Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film and Visual Culture. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2015. Forthcoming in Slavic Review.

“Praise for the Unaccomplished, a Brush with Austen.” Under Review at the Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize Competition 2017, UK.

REVIEWS Magdalena Tutka-Gwóźdź, ed., Shattered Mirror: The Problem of Identity in the Post-Yugoslav Documentary. Trans. Marta Maria Chmielowiec. Kraków: EKRANy, 2013. Slavic Review 74.3 (Fall 2015), pp. 628-630.

Catherine Portuges and Peter Hames, eds. Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. Slavic Review 73.2 (Summer 2014), pp. 413-415.

Patrick Hyder Patterson. Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. Slavic and East European Journal 57.3 (Fall 2013), pp. 511- 512.

Pavle Levi. Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. Slavic Review, vol. 67, no. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 211-212.

Dubravka Đurić and Miško Šuvaković, eds. Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant- gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Slavic and East European Journal, 51.1 (Spring 2007), pp. 178-180.

Tony Fabijančić. Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2003. Slavic and East European Journal 48.2 (Summer 2004), pp. 342-343.

Josip Novakovich. Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys. Buffalo, New York: White Pine Press, 2003. Slavic and East European Journal 48.1 (Spring 2004), pp. 153-154.

Dubravka Ugrešić. The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays. Translated by Celia Hawkesworth. Post- Communist Cultural Studies, general editor Thomas Cushman. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Slavic and East European Journal 43.3 (Fall 1999), pp. 544- 546.

Vesna Ljubić. Ecce Homo: Behold the Man. Film Quarterly 52.4 (Summer 1999), pp. 37-39. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Two New Novels by Czech Writers. Ivan Klima: Waiting for the Dark. Waiting for the Light (trans. by Paul Wilson, New York: Grove Press, 1994). Milan Kundera: Slowness (trans. by Linda Asher from original French, New York: HarperCollins, 1996). AATSEEL Web page, Reviews. (Winter 1997), 8 pages. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/book-reviews/klima-kundera.html

Timrava. That Alluring Land. Edited, translated from Slovak and with an introduction by Norma L. Rudinsky. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Slavic and East European Journal 38.2 (Summer 1994), pp. 395-397. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 6

“Milivoj Solar's Myth on Avant-Garde and Myth on Decadence.” Radio Station 101, Zagreb, 1986.

CONFERENCE PAPERS “Why Do We Read About the People Who Read?” ACLA Annual Convention, UCLA, March 2018.

“A Different Kind of Utopia: A Woman and the City in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cinema.” ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington D.C., November 2016.

“Essays from the Other Side: the Writers on the Critics.” ACLA Annual Convention, Harvard University, March 2016.

“Yugoslavia’s Socialist Past and the American Students’ Present.” The 2nd International Conference “Socialism on the Bench”, Pula, Croatia, October 2015.

“‘Being Nobody’ as a Socialist Pursuit, and the Novels by Austen, Steinbeck, and Selimović.” ACLA Annual Convention, Seattle, March 2015.

“The Montenegrin Exception? Good Global and Bad Local in New Montenegrin Cinema.” ASEEES Convention, San Antonio, Texas, November 20-23, 2014.

“In Close-Up: the New Montenegrin Cinema and its Literary Inspirations.” University of Chicago, the 19th Biennial Balkan and South Slavic Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Folklore. April 2014.

“Literary Apocalypse: on Meša Selimović’s Dervish and Death.” Conference on “Russian and East European Arts, World Stage." University of Oregon, Eugene, May 18, 2012.

“Bosnian Film Today.” Panel "What did South Slavs Record about the Wars (and How Film Saved their Sanity)." AAASS Convention, Los Angeles, Nov 2010.

"Bitter Sabres and Golden Liberty: War and Peace in Croatian Poetry, 15th to 21st Century." Discussant, AAASS Convention, Los Angeles, Nov 2010.

“Vibrant Commonalities and the Yugoslav Legacy.” E Unum Pluribus: Post-Yugoslav Cultural Space and Europe. Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York. March 26-28, 2010.

“’The Real Road to Me’: Contemporary Bosnian Cinema.” Paper presented by invitation at the international conference “Bosnia and Herzegovina: the Record Since Dayton.” Oslo, Norway, October 23, 2009.

"Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain and Its Silent Children.” MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 27, 2008.

“Rationalities and Communities in Miroslav Krleža’s On the Edge of Reason. AAASS Annual Convention, November 2007, New Orleans.

“Translation of the Poetic Prose.” MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 2006. Paper given by invitation of the President of the MLA, at the panel connected to this year’s Presidential Forum on the “Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound.”

“Two Deaths, Quran, and a Novel (Bosnian Meša Selimović’s Death and the Dervish).” The conference on “Knowledge and Belief.” Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, October 2005. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 7

“Contemporary Croatian Literature.” Presented at the conference “Croatia after the War,” Inter- University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2005.

“Whose Music Do They Listen to?”: Anti-Nationalism and Croatia of the 1990s.” Presented at the conference “Croatia after the War,” Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2005.

“Arsenijević’s Aura of the Leaders vs. the Aura of the Individuals.” AAASS Annual Conference, December 2004, Boston.

“Facts and Fictions of the War: Examples from the Croatian Literature of the 1990s.” AAASS Annual National Convention, Pittsburgh, November 21, 2002.

“Underground Anti-Nationalism in the Nationalist Era.” University of Iowa conference on the cultures of the former Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States. Iowa City, April 21, 2001.

“Underground and Public Culture in Croatia since 1990.” AAASS Annual National Convention, November 2000.

“John Cage: A Matter of Time.” MLA Special Session “John Cage at the End of the Millennium.” MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.

“Laughing Through It All: Revisiting the Films of Dušan Makavejev.” AAASS Annual National Convention. Seattle, November 22, 1997.

“Cosmopolitanism in the Literatures of the Former Yugoslavia.”A panel discussion at the AAASS Annual National Convention. Seattle, November 22, 1997.

“For Their Little Truths: The Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš.” The 25th annual Twentieth- Century Literature Conference. Panel on “Cold War and Literature.” University of Louisville, February 1997.

“Unexpected Reflections: East European Writers on ‘the West.’” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Washington D.C., December 1996.

“The Cinematic Community and Multi-National Identity in the Films of Agnieszka Holland.” Sixth Annual Symposium on Cultural Studies of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 1996.

Conference on “The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989.” The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington. Panel on Yugoslav Successor States. Discussant. Seattle, March 23, 1996.

“Socratic Dialogue Between East and West in the Writings of Irena Vrkljan.” MLA Annual Conference, Comparative Literature session “Eastern European Intellectual Culture: Points of Contact with the West.” San Diego, December 1994.

“Dubravka Ugrešić’s American Fictionary and the Non-Marketable Refusal to Conform.” AATSEEL Annual Conference, session “Central and East European Literature.” San Diego, December 1994.

“Closing of the Croatian Mind: Resignation and Resistance.” A panel discussion at the AAASS Annual National Convention. Philadelphia, November 20, 1994.

Gordana P. Crnković – CV 8 “Dositej's Autobiography, Vuk's Dictionary, and the Revenge of the Colonized.” MLA Annual Conference, Comparative Literature session "The Colonial Eye.” Toronto, December 28, 1993.

“Post-Yugoslav Space: Literature, Identity, Culture.” A panel discussion at the AAASS Annual Conference. Honolulu, November 19, 1993.

“‘The Sun Shines from My Palm:’ Bosnian Refugees’ Impersonation of a Destroyed World.” Program in Modern Thought and Literature Conference “When Worlds Collide: Culture and the Crisis of the Nation.” Stanford University, April 17, 1993.

“Three Eastern European Women Writers and Their Contact with ‘the West.’” AATSEEL Annual Conference. New York, December 28-30, 1992.

“The Gender Revolution Within the ‘Gentle’ Revolution: Women in the Transition to Post-Communism.” Co-written with Szonja Szelenyi. Human Dimensions Conference. University Forum, Helsinki, July 6-10, 1992. Also presented as Jing Lyman Lecture, Stanford University, May 26, 1993.

“Cultural Studies and Eastern Europe’s ‘Talking to the West.’” The Eighth International Conference of Europeanists. Organizer: the Council for European Studies, Columbia University. Chicago, March 27-29, 1992.

“The Aestheticization of Politics in Eastern Europe.” Department of Comparative Literature Conference on ‘Aesthetics, Discipline(s), Politics.’ Stanford University, October 25, 1991.

“Writing About Eastern Europe: a Case Study.” Western Humanities Conference on “‘Political Correctness’ and Cultural Studies.” UC Berkeley, October 21, 1990.

“Introduction to the Introduction to Yugoslav Women Writers.” Department of Comparative Literature Conference on “The Institutional Frame-up: Policing the Borders of Gender, Culture and Signification.” Stanford University, May 5, 1990.

EMPLOYMENT Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature. September 2013 to present. University of Washington, Seattle.

Associate Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature. September 2001 to September 2013. University of Washington, Seattle.

Assistant Professor, Slavic department, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, September 1993 to September 2001.

Instructor. Stanford University. “Women and Feminism in Eastern Europe.” Feminist Studies Program undergraduate seminar. Winter 1992.

Instructor. Stanford University. “The Writing Process: Literature East and West.” English Department. Winter 1990.

Instructor. Stanford University. “Another Europe.” English Department. Winter 1989.

Research Assistant. Stanford University. “Multiculturalism in the USA and Eastern Europe: a Comparative Approach.” For Slavic Department Professor Andrew Wachtel. 1991-92.

Gordana P. Crnković – CV 9 Research Assistant. Stanford University. Field work in Eastern Europe on women's position in post- communism and women's literature. For Sociology Prof. Szonja Szelenyi. Summers, 1990-91.

Teaching Assistant. Stanford University. “The Eighteenth-Century British Novel” with Professor Charles Fifer. Winter 1990.

Teaching Assistant. Stanford University. “Masterpieces of American Literature” with Professor Albert Gelpi. Spring 1988.

Graduate Resident Assistant. Stanford University, 1990-1993.

Translation into Croatian and Recording of “Learning to Speak English, Programs 1 and 2.” California Language Laboratories, Barbara Sullivan, director. 1992.

AWARDS AND GRANTS Collaborative Research Grants in the Humanities fellowship. American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS with funding through the NEH. Project: “Contemporary Croatian Film,” with coworkers from the US, Croatia, UK, Canada, and Australia. The main collaborator of the primary project instigator, dr. Aida Vidan, Harvard University. 2010.

University of Washington—University of Ljubljana Exchange Program Grant Recipient. 2010.

College of Arts and Sciences, Humanities Leadership Fellow. University of Washington, Seattle, 2007-08.

Associate Professor Research Initiative Grant. Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. University of Washington, Seattle, 2005-06.

IREX Short-term Travel Grant, for research in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Summer 2005.

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Research Travel Grant, 2003. Research Project: “Which ‘America’ Do They Have in Mind? Attitudes Towards the US and their Interplay with Nationalist and Anti-Nationalist Trends in the Yugoslav Successor States.”

University of Washington Center for West European Studies Course Development Grant, 2003. “The ‘Old’ (Western) Europe through the Eyes of the ‘New’ (Eastern) Europe: Different Cultural Histories and the Unification of Europe.”

University of Washington—University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Exchange Program Grant, for research in Ljubljana, 2003.

Society of Scholars Research Fellowship, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. University of Washington, Seattle. 2001-02.

College Workstation Initiative Recipient. University of Washington, Seattle, College of Arts and Sciences, 2000.

Jack Straw Production Artist Support Program Grant. For the creation of texts for the spoken-word piece Zagreb Everywhere. Soundscape by David Hahn. Funded by NEA, Washington Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, King County Arts Commission and Experience Music Project. Seattle, 2000.

IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) grant for a year of research in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Yugoslavia. Funds provided by the United States Department of State under the Title VIII program and by the National Endowment for the Humanities. 1998-99. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 10

Teaching Fellowship in the Center for the Humanities. University of Washington, Seattle. Fall 1996.

Travel Grant from the Graduate School. University of Washington, Seattle. Summer 1996.

Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize Fellowship (Geballe Fellowship). Stanford University, 1992-93.

Modern Thought and Literature Program Fellowship. Stanford University. 1987-1991.

Andrew H. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship from the Stanford Center for European Studies. Summer 1990.

INVITED TALKS “Ethics, Time, and Meša Selimović’s Dervish and Death.” Keynote Lecture, AATSEEL Wisconsin 2011, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 20, 2011.

“Javno i privatno obrazovanje, iskustva drugih zemalja [Public and Private Education: Foreign Experiences].” College of Arts and Letters [Filozofski fakultet], University of Zagreb, Croatia. July 12, 2011.

"Post-Yugoslav Spaces, Yugoslav Reappearances." Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, March 4, 2011.

“Austen, Dickinson, Onnepalu, and a Question from the Future.” University of Essex, Colchester, UK, March 3, 2011.

"Post-Yugoslav Spaces, Yugoslav Reappearances." School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, London, UK, March 1, 2011.

“Traveling Into the Unknown: Women’s Cinema and the Post-Yugoslav, Post-Socialist, and Post- Feminist Space.” Tulane University, New Orleans, November 14, 2007.

“Something Strange and Valuable”: The Spanish Civil War, Yugoslav Literature, and Visions of Socialism and Anti-Nationalism in the Former Yugoslavia.” Presentation of research done in collaboration with Prof. Tony Geist (Spanish and Portuguese), as a recipient of the Simpson Center’s Cross-disciplinary Research Initiative award for Associate Professors. Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, March 6, 2006.

“The Battle for Croatia: Three Films by Vinko Brešan.” NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Trondheim, Norway, April 28, 2005.

“Dead Images and Comforting Sounds: on Aleksa Šantić’s “Veče na školju” [“Evening on a Reef”].” University of Oslo, Norway, September 2004.

“Small Countries, Large Cultures.” University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 5, 2003.

“Globalism and World Literature.” University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 30, 2003.

“The Culture of Anti-Nationalism in the Nationalist Era: the Case of the Former Yugoslavia.” University of Wisconsin, Madison. November 1, 2001.

“Postmodernism and Beyond: A History of the Term.” Department of Comparative Literature, University of Zagreb, Croatia. May 19, 1999. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 11

“The Future of Comparative Literature.” Department of Comparative Literature, University of Zagreb, Croatia. December 16, 1998.

“Postmodernism and Cultural Change.” A panel discussion at the Conference on “The New Europe.” Panelist and respondent to Gianni Vattimo's talk on “The Limits of Aestheticization.” University of Washington, Seattle, April 21, 1995.

“The Collective Book: Poetry as Community and the Art of Social Relations.” University of Oregon Comparative Literature Department. Eugene, April 17, 1995.

“Eastern European Students and the American Academy.” A lecture presented for International Baccalaureate Program. Zagreb, February 23, 1994.

“The Literary Text and the European Legacy: Changing Paradigms of Thought?” A panel discussion at the Conference of Philological Association of Pacific Coast. University of Washington, Seattle, November 5, 1993.

“Ex Ponto, Unrest, Knowing Victims and Blind Victories.” Ivo Andrić Centennial Conference. Stanford University, November 23, 1992.

“Yugoslav Women in Fiction and Reality.” Stanford University. A lecture presented for Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies course on “Women and Minorities in Central Europe and the Soviet Union.” January 29, 1991.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND SERVICE Member of the Promotion Committee for Associate Professor James Tweedie. CLCM Department, University of Washington, Seattle. 2017-2018.

Outside Evaluator for a Ph.D. thesis proposal. Central European University, Budapest, Department of Gender Studies. Summer 2017.

Executive Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media. Elected Office, Autumn 2017 to Spring 2020.

Member of the Promotion Committee for Associate Professor José Alaniz. Slavic Department, University of Washington, Seattle. 2017-2018.

Co-Chair, Promotion to the Full Professor Committee of José Alaniz. Slavic Department, University of Washington, Seattle. Autumn 2017.

National Endowment for the Humanities, 2017 Summer Stipends Program. A peer review panelist for applications in film and theater studies. Autumn 2016.

Undergraduate Education Committee. Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media. 2016-17.

Slavic Excellence Prize for the Best Undergraduate and Graduate Paper Committee. Spring 2016.

Search Committee for the Slavic Department administrator. Member. Spring 2016.

Reviewer. American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, Title VIII Research Fellowship Programs. January 2016. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 12

Panel Organizer. “Socialist Texts in Post-Socialist Times” panel, ACLA Convention, Seattle, March 2015. Co-organizer: Professor Benjamin Robinson, Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Tenure Committee for Assistant Professor Sudhir Mahadevan, Comparative Literature Department, Cinema Studies. Member. Autumn 2014.

Assisting Prof. Galya Diment in her writing of a departmental nomination of Dr. Bojan Belić for a Principal Lectureship in Slavic Department. In charge of a section on Dr. Belic’s BCS language teaching. Autumn 2014.

Humanities Major. Committee charged with creating and initiating this new College-wide major. Winter 2013 to present.

Fulbright Scholar Program, Romania. External evaluator. Autumn 2013.

Chair Search Committee, Germanics Department. University of Washington, Seattle, Autumn 2013.

American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ ACCELS. The Title VIII Research Scholar Program and the Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program. Reviewer. 2012.

Guest Lecturer for JSIS 504 A, Bibliography and Research Methods, a graduate class for REECAS students taught by Professor Scott Radnitz, Jackson School of International Studies. Lecture on “Film Within and Outside of Society,” October 25, 2012.

Graduate Advisor and Chair of the Graduate Admissions Committee. Slavic Department, University of Washington, Seattle. 2011-12, 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05.

Evaluation of article submissions for Libri & Liberi (Croatia), PMLA, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, History: The Journal of the Historical Association. 1995 to present.

Manuscript Referee: Cambridge University Press, Northwestern University Press, Duke University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, Ohio University Press, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 1995 to present.

Evaluation of project proposals for Norwegian Research Council. May 2012.

Evaluation of project proposals in the humanities for the Croatian Science Foundation, Opatija, Croatia. 2012.

Evaluation of project proposals in the humanities for the Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Sector for International Cooperation & European Integration, Consultative Bureau for International Projects, Belgrade, the Republic of Serbia. September 2010.

REECAS and FLAS Admission Committee Member. University of Washington, Seattle. Ongoing every few years from 1995, last served in 2008 and 2010.

Chair Search Committee for the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Member. 2009. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 13 Chair of Promotion and Tenure Committee of Prof. José Alaniz, Slavic department, 2008.

Evaluation of applications for the BCS language training in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, for the American Councils for International Education, 2007.

Chair of the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Lecturer Job Search Committee. Slavic Department, University of Washington, 2005.

Member of Alword, Fritz, and Macfarlan Fellowship Committee. College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 2005.

Nomination of Prof. Marjorie Perloff for a Katz Lecturer, and helping with the organization of her visit. 2004.

Executive Board: Association of Women in Slavic Studies. 2002-2006. Also Chair of the Nominating Committee.

Conference Referee: AAASS Annual Meeting, proposals on the former Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States, 1997.

Graduate Admissions Committee, Slavic Department, University of Washington. 2000-01.

Member: Committee for Language Pedagogy, Slavic Department, University of Washington. 2000-01.

Member: Curriculum Committee, Slavic Department, University of Washington. 1996-97.

Chair: Central European Literature Division of the AATSEEL. 1996.

Secretary: Central European Literature Division of the AATSEEL. 1995.

Member: Cinema Studies Committee. College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, March 1996 to present.

Senator: Faculty Senate. University of Washington, September 2001-September 2003 and September 1994-September 1996.

Feminist Studies Program Committee. Stanford University. 1991-92.

Feminist Studies Program subcommittee on budget. Stanford University. 1991-92.

Modern Thought and Literature Program Review Committee. Stanford University. 1990.

INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES AND APPEARANCES “On Love and Books: Bohumil Hrabal’s novel Too Loud a Solitude.” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, November 3, 2017.

One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away: Why Is It the Most Popular Croatian Film of All Times? Lecture given at the 13th Annual Croatia Fest: a Celebration of Croatian History and Culture. Seattle Center, Seattle, October 2016.

“Hrvoje Hribar’s What is a Man without a Moustache?” Lecture given at the 12th Annual Croatia Fest: a Celebration of Croatian History and Culture. Seattle Center, Seattle, October 4, 2015. Gordana P. Crnković – CV 14

“Vinko Brešan’s The Priest’s Children and the Croatian Cinema Today.” Lecture given at the 11th Annual Croatia Fest: a Celebration of Croatian History and Culture. Seattle Center, Seattle, October 5, 2014.

“The Effects of World War II on Eastern Europe.” Lecture given to the history class at Lakeside High School. Seattle, January 10, 2014.

“Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Today.” Women's University Club of Seattle, Classic and Modern Literature Class. February 2, 2011.

“Miroslav Krleža’s On the Edge of Reason and the Foreshadowing of the War.” Invited Guest Speaker. Women's University Club of Seattle, Classic and Modern Literature Class. October 15, 2008.

“Miloš Forman’s Loves of a Blond.” Invited Guest Speaker. Northwest Film Forum, Seattle. September 23, 2008.

John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Invited Guest Speaker. Women's University Club of Seattle, Classic and Modern Literature Class. May 10, 2006.

“Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being.” Invited Guest Speaker. Women's University Club of Seattle, Classic and Modern Literature Class. November 10, 2004.

Bosnian Academy Award Winner “No Man’s Land.” Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, WA, Feb 18, 2003.

“James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and the Limitations of the Identity Politics.” Invited Guest Speaker. Women's University Club of Seattle, Classic and Modern Literature Class. December 11, 2002.

“Irena Vrkljan's Autobiographies Silk, Shears and Marina or About Biography. Invited Guest Speaker. Women's University Club of Seattle, Classic and Modern Literature Class. November 1, 2000.

“Eastern European Film and Women Directors.” Seattle, June 23, 1998. Roosevelt Institute, organized by the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies for the Roosevelt High School teachers.

“Ivo Andrić's Nobel-Prize Winning Novel The Bridge on the Drina.” Invited Guest Speaker. Women's University Club of Seattle, Classic and Modern Literature Class. October 1, 1997.

“Films from Besieged Sarajevo: Vesna Ljubić's Ecce Homo: Behold the Man.” Slavic Salon. Russian House, University of Washington. April 4, 1997.

“John Cage Today.” Invited Guest Speaker. “John Cage Week,” Seattle Central Community College. February 12, 1997.