Former Faculty

Books and Monographs

Women Engaged/Engaged Art in Postwar Bosnia: Reconciliation, Recovery, and Civil Society, (Pittsburgh, PA: Carl Beck Papers, 2010)

Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina, Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), ForeWord Magazine Silver Medal Book of the Year in History

Their Fathers’ Voice: Vassily Aksyonov, Venedikt Erofeev, Eduard Limonov, and Sasha Sokolov (New York: Peter Lang, 1993)

For Henry Kučera: Studies in Slavic Philology and Computational Linguistics, editor with Andrew Mackie and Tatyana McAuley (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Studies, 1992)

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, AND ESSAYS:

Editor, with Nataša Milas and Trevor Jockims, Kinokultura, Special Issue 14: Bosnian Cinema (August 2012)

“Women Engaged in Postwar Bosnian Film,” in Kinokultura, Special Issue 14: Bosnian Cinema (August 2012)

“Women on the Home Front and Cultural Preservation in the National Museum of Sarajevo (1992-1995),” in From Petersburg to Bloomington: Essays in Honor of Nina Perlina (Boomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2012): 251-263

“Sputniki Belly Ulanovskoi” (Bella Ulanovskaia: A Literary Pantheon), in Bella Ulanovskaia: Odinnokoe pis’mo (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010): 348-357

TRANSLATIONS:

Lydia Zakharova, “Diary Entry from a Russian Nurse at the Battlefront, 1915” in Susan R. Grayzel, The First World War: A Brief History in Documents (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012)

Alma Lazarevska, “Plants are Something Else,” Translated from the Bosnian and Introduction by Cynthia Simmons, 91st Meridien, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall, 2011); http://iwp.uiowa.edu/91st/vol7-num2

John Michalczyk, Director, Confronting Amnesia (2009), Interviews, Russian to English

“V. S. Kostrovitskaia,” Bonnie G. Smith, Europe in the Contemporary World 1900 to Present: A Narrative History with Documents (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007): 359-360

“Sofia Pavlovna Iur’eva,” “Anna Nikitichna Shabanova,” “Ivanova,” “Lidiia Zakharova,” in Margaret R. Higonnet, ed., Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I (New York: Plume, 1999)

BOOK REVIEWS:

Dubravka Žarkov, The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia (Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2007), Minerva Journal of Women and War Spring (2010): 121-123

Ronelle Alexander, Bosnian Croatian Serbian: A Grammar with Sociolinguistic Commentary and Ronelle Alexander and Ellen Elias-Bursać, Bosnian Croatian Serbian: A Textbook with Exercises and Basic Grammar, Nationalities Papers 4 (2008): 776-778

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myths, Memories, and Monuments, The American Historical Review 5 (2007): 1649-1650

Swanee Hunt, This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace, Slavic and East European Journal 4 (2006): 746-747