Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS)

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BACKGROUND

Born on January 1, 1946, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.  Citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Residence in Sarajevo until February, 1994.  Permanent residency status in the U.S.A. since November 1997.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo, 1978
Field: American Literature

M.A., Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH, 1972
Field: American Studies

B.A.,  University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo, 1970
Major: English Literature

Titles of Theses and Dissertations:

B.A.: "Aspects of English/Indian Civilizational Dialogue:
M.K. Gandhi, R. Tagore, E.M. Forster, A. Huxley"
(defended 1970)

M.A.: "Shifting Narrative Perspectives in Sinclair Lewis's Fiction" (defended 1972) Ph.D.: "The American Social Novel in Serbo-Croatian Literary
Criticism from 1918 to 1941" (defended 1978)

RESEARCH WORK

(Institution and Field)

Oxford University Library,  1976, 1980, 1984
British Library (England),     (American literature
University of London Libraries    English history
English travel writing)

Zagreb University Library,  1976
Zagreb (Croatia)  (Reception of American literature in Yugoslavia)
Serbian National Library,  1977
Belgrade (Yugoslavia) (Reception of  literature in Yugoslavia)

J.F. Kennedy Institute, 1986
Berlin (Germany) (American Studies)
Indiana University Main Library, 1990-91
Bloomington, Indiana  (American Studies English travel writing on Bosnia)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Loyola University Chicago
Chicago

Adjunct Professor of English May 2005-present Lecturer in Composition Aug 2003-May 2005
North Park University
Chicago

Lecturer in Composition Aug 2004-present
BIR (Business and Industrial Training)
Chicago

Instructor in language and literature March 2005--2007
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL
Fall 2003

Lecturer in composition
Indiana University East Richmond, IN

Assistant to the Chancellor Jan 1999-June 2003
Adjunct Professor of English   Jan 1995-2005

Teaching: Literature, Composition,

Balkan history
Earlham College Richmond, IN
Feb 1994-1998

Visiting Professor of

Literature and Intercultural Studies Teaching: American Studies,

Comparative Literature, Humanities (Courses: American Literature,

American Culture, Modern European Novel, Travel Literature, Jewish Studies, Humanities I & III)
Miami University
Oxford, OH

Visiting Professor, Honors Program 1997; 1998 Teaching: South Slavic Topics
Ball State University Muncie, IN

Visiting Professor Fall 1997

Teaching: world literature

Antioch University

Yellow Springs, OH

Spring 1996

Pierson-Lovelace Visiting Professor

Teaching: Modern European Novel

Public Lectures on Bosnia and

American Studies

University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo, Bosnia 1972-1994

Full Professor, 1990-
Department of English

(Faculty of Philosophy)

Teaching: American and English Studies

(Courses in American and English Social and Cultural History, American and English Literature)

Indiana University Bloomington, IN

Aug 1990-Jun 1991

Fulbright fellow, postdoctoral research in American Studies

Interuniversity Postgraduate Center Dubrovnik, Croatia 1982-1988

Lecturer in American Studies Seminar

(Zagreb University--Indiana University)

POSITIONS HELD

• Chair, Department of English, 1978 - 1980;
• Faculty of Philosophy, 1992 - 1994
• University of Sarajevo
• President, Faculty Council 1988 - 1990
• Faculty of Philosophy, Sarajevo
• Vice-Dean, Faculty of Philosophy 1985 - 1988

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Grant, Bloomington, IN, 1990-1991
• The Veselin Masleša Publishing House, Sarajevo, Book Award for At the Gates of the East: British Travel Writers on Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, 1990
• The United States Information Agency (USIA) study trip grant, U.S.A., 1982
• British Council research grants, London, Oxford, 1976, 1980, 1984
• Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, graduate study scholarship, 1970-1972
• The Hasan BrkiAward for academic excellence, University of Sarajevo, 1969

SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES (Selected)

• Conference on Travel Writing, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Milwaukee, October 22, 2004 (with paper: "The Uses of Travel in V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River")
• Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah, Georgia, March 27-29, 2003 (with paper: "The Arabian Nights and the Five-Year Plan: Anthony Rhodes and Bosnia")
• Conference on Travel Writing, Cleveland, October 25-27, 2002 (with paper: "A Dark Pastoral:  Louis Adamic's The Native's Return")
• Conference on Travel Writing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 10-13, 1999 (with paper: "Snowy Domes and Gay Turbans: American Travelers on Bosnia, 1897-1941")
• Conference on Travel Writing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, November 14-16, 1997 (with paper: "Under Western Eyes: British Travelers on Bosnia in the 19th Century")
• Conference on Peace and War Issues, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1994 (with paper: "Bosnian Muslims: Unwilling Warriors")
• Conference of the Austrian Association of American Studies, Salzburg, Austria, 1991 (with paper: "Teaching American History at the University of Sarajevo")
• Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), London, England, 1990
• Conference on Women Travelers in the Balkans, Bradford, England, 1987 (with paper: "Two Victorian Ladies and Bosnian Realities, 1862-1875: G.M. MacKenzie and A.P. Irby")
• Conference on English studies in Yugoslavia, Zagreb, Croatia, 1987 (with paper: "British Travelers on Bosnia")
• Conference of EAAS, Budapest, Hungary, 1986
• The Louis Adamic Symposium, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1981 (with paper: ""The Response to the Work of Louis Adamic in the Criticism in Serbo-Croatian between the Two World Wars")
• Conference on the Nolit Publishing House, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979 (with paper: "American Social Novelists in Yugoslavia Between the Two World Wars")
• The Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Salzburg, Austria, 1975

LECTURES (Selected)

• Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, April 19, 2006 ("An Immigrant's Deal: Two Lives for the Price of One")
• Loyola University Chicago, Sep 13 and 14, 2005 (Shared-Text Symposium: "An Immigrant's Deal: Two Lives for the Price of One")
• Earlham College, Richmond, IN, 1997 (The Emerson Lecture: "John Updike and the Poetry of the Commonplace")
• Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH, 1996 ("Bosnian Dreams and Nightmares")
• Antioch University, 1996 ("A Squirrel on the Power Line: A Bosnian View of American Culture")
• Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 1996 ("A Bosnian View of American Culture")
• Antioch University, 1995 (Workshop: "The Ordeal of Bosnia")
• Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1995 ("Bosnian Muslims: Unwilling Warriors")
• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1994 ("The Americanness of Early American Literature,"
• "Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Interdisciplinary Country")
• Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 1994 ("Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Interdisciplinary Country")
• Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN, 1994 ("The War in Bosnia")
• California State University, Sacramento, CA, 1994 ("Bosnia and America as Multicultural Countries")
• University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 1994 ("Bosnian Muslims: Unwilling Warriors")
• DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, 1994 ("The Current Bosnian Situation")
• Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 1994 ("Something into Nothing: The Case of Bosnia")
• Indiana University East, Richmond, IN, 1994 ("The War in Bosnia")
• Antioch University, 1994 ("Bosnia: Past and Present")
• University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 1987 ("Bosnian-English Cultural Relations")
• University of Graz, Graz, Austria, 1985 ("Kurt Vonnegut: Photographer and Prophet," "Mak Dizdar's Poetry")
• February 1994--June 1996: Several TV, radio and newspaper interviews in Washington, D.C. (CBS, Voice of America, National Public Radio), Indiana, Ohio, California, Canada; articles in The Christian Science Monitor and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

• Co-editor, Duh Bosne/Spirit of Bosnia,  2006--present online, bilingual journal
• Member, Literary Translators' Association 1990--present of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Member, The International Society for 1997--present
  Travel Writing (ISTW
• International Contributing Editor 1993--2000
• The Journal of American History, Bloomington, IN
• Consultant, the Open Society Institute's 1995 - 1997(the Soros Foundation) Supplementary Grant
• Program for Students from former Yugoslavia
• Member, Bosnian-Herzegovinian-American 2008--present Academy of Arts And Sciences

PUBLICATIONS

[Note: Items published in English are indicated thus: "in English".  All other items are in Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian]

I. BOOKS

• 1. Messages and Responses: The American Social Novel in the Criticism in the Serbo-Croatian Language from 1918 to 1941. Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1980.
• 2. (Editor). At the Gates of the East: British Travel Writers on Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1989. In Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian.
• 3. (Editor). At the Gates of the East: British Travel Writers on Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs; New York: Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2001.

II. ARTICLES

• 1. "The Humaneness and Efficacy of Gandhi's Principles." Pregled (a Sarajevo periodical) 40.6 (1970): 780-787.
• 2. "English Intransitive Verbs vs. Serbo-Croatian Reflexive Verbs." Reports 3 (YSCECP-Yugoslav Serbo/Croatian-English Contrastive Project). Ed. Rudolf Filipovi. Zagreb-Washington, D.C., 1970. 52-61. In English.
• 3. "Intransitive Verbs + Adverbials or Complements Containing Non-Finite Verb Forms." Reports 4 (YSCECP). Ed. Rudolf Filipovi. Zagreb-Washington, D.C., 1971. 11-22. In English.
• 4. "The Idea of Mission in American History." Encyclopaedia moderna (a Zagreb periodical) 9. 28-9 (1974): 50-55.
• 5. "Redemption through Experience: James Dickey's Deliverance." Izraz (a Sarajevo periodical) 20.5 (1976): 780-790.
• 6. "Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God," Trei program Radio Sarajeva (a Radio Sarajevo periodical) 3 (1977): 546-554.
• 7. "The Reception of the American Social Novel in Yugoslavia between the Two World Wars: A General View." ?ivot (a Sarajevo periodical) 27/53.5 (1978): 561-572.
• 8. "The American Social Novel." Pregled, 48.9 (1978): 1121-1141.
• 9. "The American Social Novel and Yugoslav Social and Cultural Conditions between the Two Wars." Godišnjak Instituta za jezik i knji?evnost (an annual publication of the Sarajevo Language and Literature Institute) 7 (1978): 109-139.
• 10. "Translation of American Social Novels in Serbo-Croatian between the Two Wars." Mostovi (a Belgrade translators' journal) 9.4-36 (1978): 305-316.
• 11. "Roundabout Ways and Means: The American Social Novel in Yugoslavia Between the Wars." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (T?bingen) 4.2 (1979): 145-153. In English.
• 12. "David Copperfield-- the Favorite Child." Preface. David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens. Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1981. 5-13.
• 13. "The Response to Adamic's Works in the Criticism in the Serbo-Croatian Language between the Two Wars." Louis Adamic: simpozij, Ljubljana, 1981. 281-287.
• 14. "British-Bosnian/Herzegovinian Cultural Relations." Enciklopedija Jugoslavije (Encyclopaedia Yugoslavica). 1982 ed.
• 15. "British-Montenegrin Cultural Relations." Enciklopedija Jugoslavije. 1982 ed.
• 16. "Kurt Vonnegut: Photographer and Prophet." Knji?evna smotra (a Zagreb periodical) 15.51-2 (1983): 18-21.
• 17. "Alfred Tennyson." Engleska knji?evnost 3 (a history of English literature). Ed. Veselin Kosti. Sarajevo-Belgrade: Svjetlost--Nolit, 1984. 17-26. (The article was also published in the Sarajevo periodical Lica, 1983, 5/6/7, 75-79.)
• 18. "Mak Dizdar's Stone Sleeper: History into Metaphor." Books in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) 3.4. (1984): 235-237. In English.
• 19. "The English Department of the Faculty of Philosophy of Sarajevo." Books in Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.6 (1985): 431-432. In English.
• 20. "The American Writers in Bosnian/Herzegovinian Newspapers and Periodicals between the Wars." Socijalistika misao i knji?evnost u Bosni i Hercegovini izmedju dva rata. Proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Institute of Literature, Sarajevo, 1985, 199-205.
• 21. "British Travelers on Bosnia and Herzegovina until the End of the Nineteenth Century," Godišnjak Instituta za knji?evnost (Sarajevo) 16 (1987): 282-294.
• 22. "Bosnia and Herzegovina in English Travel Writing: 1848-1878." Knji?evna smotra 21.69-72 (1988): 10-14.
• 23. "Two Victorian Ladies on Bosnia." Odjek (a Sarajevo periodical), 42.10 (1989): 16-17.
• 24. "Oliver Twist: Against an Expression on the Human Face." Preface. Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1990. 5-7.
• 25. "James Fenimore Cooper," Radovi Filozofskog fakulteta u Sarajevu (a Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy periodical) 11 (1990): 15-22.
• 26. "The Extraordinariness of the American Quotidian: John Updike's Roger's Version." Izraz 34.68 (1991): 55-62.
• 27. "Two Victorian Ladies and Bosnian Realities, 1862-1875: G.M. MacKenzie and A.P. Irby." Black Lambs & Grey Falcons: Women Travellers in the Balkans. Eds. John B. Allcock & Antonia Young. Bradford: Bradford UP, 1991. 1-7. Second edition: Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. 1-8. In English.
• 28. "American Literature, 1775-1836: an Overview." Godišnjak Instituta za knji?evnost, (Sarajevo) 20 (1991): 245-257.
• 29. "Escape from Sarajevo." Earlhamite (Richmond, Indiana) Summer 1994: 18-22.
• 30. "'Uncle' Radovan's Past." The Christian Science Monitor 19 July 1995: 19.
• 31. "Bosnia: an Interdisciplinary Country." Earlhamite Summer 1995: 18-21.
• 32. "The 'Unease of Being' of a Refugee Scholar." The Chronicle of Higher Education 16 May, 1997: B6.
• 33. "A Squirrel on the Power Line." Earlhamite Winter 1998: 25-29.
• 34. "Snowy Domes and Gay Turbans: American Travelers on Bosnia, 1897-1941." East European Quarterly 36.1 (2002): 27-38.
• 35. "Travelogue as a Dark Pastoral: Louis Adamic's The Native's Return." An American Scholar in Sarajevo: Papers Honoring Prof. Zvonimir Radeljkovi on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Ed. Srebren Dizdar. Sarajevo: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Special Editions 7 (2003): 95-100.
• 36. "Bosnian Muslims: Unwilling Warriors." Iranian.com. November 19, 2003.
• 37. "Balkans." Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Jennifer Speake. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn-Taylor & Francis, 2003. Vol. One, 67-71.
• 38. "Plagiarism between Orientalism and Balkanism: Anthony Rhodes and Bosnia." East European Quarterly 41.2 (2007): 149-166.

III. REVIEWS

• 1. "Svetozar Koljevi's Ways of Words." Godišnjak Instituta za jezik i knji?evnost (Sarajevo) 8 (1979): 359-364.
• 2. "A Comprehensive and Analytical Survey." Oslobodjenje (a Sarajevo daily) 12 March 1980: 11. (A review of Engleska knji?evnost 1, a history of English literature).
• 3. "James M. Mellard, The Exploded Form: The Modernist Novel in America (1980)." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 9.2 (1984): 220-224. In English.
• 4. "Svetozar Koljevi's The Whims of the Novel." Trei program Radio Sarajeva 17.63-4 (1989): 492-496.
• 5. "An Astute Observer of Literary Trends: Zvonimir Radeljkovi's Dreams and Mornings." Oslobodjenje (Sarajevo) 10 March 1990: 11.
• 6. "Between Dream and Reality--Zvonimir Radeljkovi's, Dreams and Mornings." Knji?evne novine (a Belgrade literary periodical). 43 (1990): 11.
• 7. Rev. of The Bosnian Student Project: A Response to Genocide, by Doug Hostetter. Quaker Life, Richmond, Indiana, September 1998, 30.

IV. INTERVIEWS

•1. (With Zvonimir Radeljkovi), "An American Centaur: a Conversation with John Updike." Knji?evna smotra 36 (1979): 3-7.

•2. (With Z. Radeljkovi), "African Tradition and the Individual Talent: a Conversation with Chinua Achebe." Trei program Radio Sarajeva 27-28 (1979-80): 435-442.

•3. (With Z. Radeljkovi), "Writers Speak: E.L. Doctorow." Oslobodjenje 26 Nov. and 3 Dec. 1988 (two installments).

•4. (With Z. Radeljkovi), "Susan Sontag: Literature Is What You Should Re-Read." An Interview with S. Sontag, Sarajevo, April 10, 1993.  Novi izraz, 7. 27-28 (2005): 124-132.  Published in English in Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 2.2 (Apr 2007) <http:// www.spiritofbosnia.org/?lang=eng&x=57&y=59>.

•5. Interview given to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Prague, the Czech Republic), August 18, 2002. Host: Sabina abaravdi.

V. TRANSLATIONS

• 1. Kofi Awoonor. "Art, Music, Languages"(a chapter from The Breast of the Earth). Most (a Mostar periodical) 7 (1980): 41-47.
• 2. "Formula" (a chapter from Albert B. Lord's A Singer of Tales). Towards a Poetics of Yugoslav Folk Poetry. Ed. Svetozar Koljevi. Belgrade, 1982, 469-515. (The translation was also published in the periodical ?ivot, 30/59.2 (981): 197-233).
• 3. Dathorne, O.R. "Characteristics of African Literature." (With Ivo Slavni). Most 9.42 (1982): 41-49.
• 4. (With Anne Pennington & Stephen P. Meyer), a translation of thirteen poems by Mak Dizdar, Books in Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.4 (1984): 238-248.
• 5. (With Z. Radeljkovi & M. Suško). New Chinese Poetry. Sarajevo, 1985.
• 6. Dathorne, O.R. Afrika knji?evnost u dvadesetom stoljeu (African Literature in the Twentieth Century). (With I. Slavni). Sarajevo, 1985.
• 7. (With an introduction and commentaries). "Early English Travel Writers on Bosnia and Herzegovina." Oslobodjenje 20-23 Aug. 1985 (four installments).
• 8. Translation of five stories. Antologija amerike novele XX stoljea (an anthology of the American short story). Ed. Mario Suško. Sarajevo, 1986. (The second, enlarged edition was published in 1990).
• 9. (With an introduction and commentaries). "British Travelers and Bosnian Roads." Oslobodjenje 13-22 Feb. 1988 (ten installments)
• 10. (With an introduction and commentaries; translation with Z. Ridjanovi). "Mostar in the British Travel Writings of the Nineteenth Century." Most 15.73-4 (1988): 99-107.
• 11. (With an introduction and commentaries). "Travnik in 1851: a British Eyewitness Account." Glasnik Arhiva i Društva arhivskih radnika Bosne i Hercegovine (a Sarajevo archivists' journal) 28 (1988), 99-110.
• 12. (With an introduction and commentaries; translation with Z. Ridjanovi). "Bosnia and Herzegovina through British Eyes: 1848-1889." ?ivot 38.5-6 (1989): 443-465 and 38.7-8, 117-128.
• 13. Bellow, Saul. Ne propusti dan (Seize the Day). Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša/Svjetlost, 1990.

Mak Dizdar.  "Hi?a u Milama" (House of Mile), "Jabukov cvijet" (Apple Blossom), and

"Krinovi" (Lilies).  Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 1.1 (Jan 2006) <http:// www.duhbosne.org/?lang=eng>.

Marko Vešovi.  "I ja sam ko knez Andreja" (I, Too, Like Prince Andrey), "?enska

bluza (Girl's Blouse), "Ka?e Rebeka Vest" (Says Rebecca West), "Izvee lije?eš u postelju" (In the Evening You Lie Down in Bed).  Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 1.2 (Apr 2006) <http://www.duhbosne.org/?lang=eng>.

Marko Vešovi, "Potpis"(Signature), "Ova pucnjava," (This Shooting), "Besmrtan tren

(A Deathless Moment).  the new renaissance.  Spring, # 38; 12.3 (2007): 78-83.

William Tribe, "A Walk to Višegrad, 1959-60." Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 2.2 (Jan

2007) < http://www.spiritofbosnia.org/?lang=eng&x=47&y=56>.

Lawrence Durrell, "Sarajevo" (Sarajevo).  Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 2.2

(Jan 2007) < http://www.spiritofbosnia.org/?lang=eng&x=47&y=55>.

Lawrence Durrell, ["Letter to Anne Ridler"].  Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 2.2

(Jan 2007) < http://www.spiritofbosnia.org/?lang=eng&x=47&y=54>.

(With Anne Pennington & Stephen P. Meyer), Mak Dizdar. "Gorin."  Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 2.3 (July 2007) <http:// www.duhbosne.org/?lang=eng>.

(With Anne C. Bigelow).  Abdulah Sidran, "Molitva u Milanu" (Prayer in Milan).  Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 2.3 (July 2007) <http:// www.duhbosne.org/?lang=eng>.

(With Marko Vešovi).  Joseph Brodsky, "Bosnia Tune" ("Bosanska pjesma"). Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 2.3 (July 2007) <http:// www.duhbosne.org/?lang=eng>.

(With Marko Vešovi).  "Pjesme od Josifa Brodskog"  (Poems by Joseph Brodsky).  Plima XI/57-58 (2007): 56-73.

(With Wayles Browne).  Marko Vešovi,"Grob, peina" (Grave, Cavern).  Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 3.2 (April 2008) <http:// www.duhbosne.org/?lang=eng>.

Marko Vešovi, "Šumska tišina i osama" (Stillness and Solitude of Woods).   Duh Bosne (Spirit of Bosnia) 3.2 (April 2008) <http:// www.duhbosne.org/?lang=eng>.

Glenview, Illinois, June 2008

Omer Had?iselimovic