Stijn Vervaet

Stijn Vervaet is an Associate Professor in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Balkan Studies at the University of Oslo. His research interests lie in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature, comparative literature, cultural history of the Balkans and Central Europe (^19th-21st centuries), cultural memory studies, and multilingualism. He has published two monographs, one on the construction of national identities in Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature under Austro-Hungarian rule(Centar i periferija u Austro-Ugarskoj, Synopsis 2013) and one on the transgenerational transmission of Holocaust memory in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav fiction(Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory, Routledge 2018). He has co-edited the thematic issue Mapping Minority Multilingualism: Perspectives from Central and South-Eastern European Borderlands (2022, with Marija Mandić), and the volume Post-Yugoslav Constellations: Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Literature and Culture(De Gruyter 2016, with Vlad Beronja). He is currently preparing a book on literary multilingualism in Yugoslav imperial and post-imperial fiction.