People - Faculty - Crnkovic
Gordana P. Crnkovic
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature
Areas of Study: comparative literature, Former Yugoslavia's, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian literature and film, English and American literature, East European literature and film, literary theory.
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, 1993
Current Interests and Research: Gordana P. Crnkovic is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature , as well as a member of Cinema Studies and the Program for Theory and Criticism. She spent the first part of her life in Croatia, former Yugoslavia, where she double-majored in Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. Crnkovic pursued her graduate work at Stanford University’s Program in Modern Thought and Literature, where she focused on theory and on American, English, and Eastern European literature. She is the author of Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2000,“Rethinking Theory” series), and a co-editor, with Sabrina P. Ramet, of Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!: The American Impact on European Popular Culture, since 1945 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Along with many articles, Crnkovic is the author of the texts of various genres included in Zagreb Everywhere, an unorthodox video portrayal of the city of Zagreb, the result of a collaboration with video artist Victor Ingrassia and composer David Hahn. This video had multiple public projections and was presented at the festival Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2003). Crnkovic’s interests include film, and some of her film articles are available on the web, such as the recent “From the Eye to the Hand: the Victim’s Double Vision in the Cinema of Roman Polanski,” in Kinoeye: New Perspectives on European Film (www.kinoeye.org).
At the University of Washington Crnkovic teaches courses on post-World War II European novel, on East European literature and film in comparative perspective, on literary theory, thematic courses such as one on travel literature and film that draws on American, English, and Eastern European materials, a course on literature and film of the former Yugoslavia, and the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language.
Select Awards:
- IREX (International Research and Exchange Board, 2005)
- Associate Professor Research Initiative Grant from the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. UW, 2005-06.
- NCEEER (National Council for Eurasian and East European Research), 2003.
- Stanford University’s Dissertation Fellowship (Geballe Fellowship).