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Stijn Vervaet
Lic. in East European Languages and Cultures (Russian & Serbo-Croatian, Ghent University, 2002), Postgraduate (Russian as a Foreign Language, MGU, Moscow, 2003), PhD in East European Languages and Cultures (2007, Ghent)
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- Office: Room 130.016, Blandijnberg 2 (3rd floor)
- Tel:09/264.36.94
- Office hours: by appointment
- E-mail:
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Research interests |
- Contemporary Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian fiction
- Cultural history of the (Habsburg) Balkans
- Cultural memory studies, trauma studies, comparative Holocaust studies
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Current project |
Intersecting Memories: The Representation of the Holocaust and State Violence in (Post-)Yugoslav Literature (FWO, Oct. 2011-Oct. 2014)
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Recent publications
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- “Whose Museum? Whose History? Whose Memories? Remembering in the Work of Dubravka Ugrešić”, Comparative Critical Studies 8.2-3 (October 2011), 295-306.
- “A Different Kind of War Story: Aleksandar Zograf's Regards from Serbia and Toma Lavrič's Bosnian Fables”, Slavic and East European Journal 55.2 (Summer 2011), 166-187.
- “Writing War, Writing Memory: The Representation of the Recent Past and the Construction of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Bosnian Prose”, Neohelicon 38.1 (June 2011), 1-17.
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Past projects
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- “Contested Pasts: the Representation of the Past and the Construction of Cultural Memory in Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian Literature during the 1990s” FWO, October 2008-September 2011 (Director: prof. dr. Raymond Detrez http://www.slavistiek.ugent.be/personeel/detrez )
- “Centra en periferieën in Oostenrijk-Hongarije. De dynamiek van de ontwikkeling van nationale identiteiten in Bosnië-Hercegovina 1878-1918 aan de hand van literaire werken” FWO, October 2003-September 2007 (Director: prof. dr. Raymond Detrez http://www.slavistiek.ugent.be/personeel/detrez )
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