Mina Zdravkovic

I am completing my Ph.D. in English at Boston University, English department. My work focuses on the twentieth century novel (British, American, and some Continental) and examines the ways in which lateness as an aesthetic, cultural, and linguistic category informs the prose of writers in exile: concepts of pastiche, intertextuality, and self-reflexivity are crucial to it. The title of my dissertation, which I am writing under mentorship of professors Aaron Fogel and Ha Jin, is “On Late Style and Twentieth Century Novel: Textuality, Spectacle, and the Real in the works of Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, and W. G. Sebald.” I have been a recipient of several prestigious awards in Serbia and US, among them Boston University’s Albert Gilman Award in 2001, and have published work on contemporary authors, the latest of which is an article on Peter Weiss’s two books of fictional autobiography Exile (Leavetaking and Vanishing Point), forthcoming in Compendium of Twentieth Century Novel, New York: Facts on File, 2007.
My other areas of interest include literary theory, film theory, and creative writing (fiction). At Boston University, I have taught classes on contemporary fiction, drama, film, and writing.
I am currently working on a book of short stories Kafka’s Wall and on a documentary screenplay on literacy in Serbia.