Nada Petković-Djordjević
Nada Petković-Djordjević
Lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
Editor-in-Chief of Leptir Mašna, the literary magazine of students in balkan studies
Foster 410
(773) 702-0035
petkovic@uchicago.edu
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More information available at: http://home.uchicago.edu/petkovic/
Nada Petkovic is the appointed lecturer of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. She joined the department in 1986 as a visiting Fulbright scholar. Though a native of Belgrade, Serbia, she likes to refer to herself as a 'Yugonostalgic.' She received a degree in Comparative Literature and South Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Belgrade. A pioneer in teaching Serbo-Croatian as a second language, she has always sought out better approaches and techniques for teaching her native language, in its polyphony of tongues and literatures. She is author of an advanced language textbook, "Po naški through Fiction: An Annotated Chrestomathy of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Prose," which examines various grammatical topics through readings in contemporary works of literature. The acquisition of verbal aspect is among her current research interests and at present she is completing a project on Croatian and Serbian verbal aspectual pairs, forthcoming as a searchable database.
Courses
Elementary Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
Intermediate Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
Advanced Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
The History of Yugoslav Conflict
The Burden of the Balkans: A Journey through History, Religion, and Culture