Nataša Durovicová

Editor, International Writing Program

natasa-durovicova@uiowa.edu

Education:

ABD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Office:

100 SHSE

Phone:

319-335-2089

Office Hours:

Mon. 1:00-3:00 p.m.; Weds. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Selected Publications:

World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives, co-editor with Kathleen Newman (London: Routledge, 2009)

“Los Toquis, or, Urban Babel, in Global Cities: Urbanism, Architecture, Cinema, Linda Krause and Patrice Petro, eds. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003). Reprinted on-line in http://www.rouge.com.au #7

“Local Ghosts: The Human Body and Early Sound Cinema,” in Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi, eds. Il film et suoi multipli (Udine: Faculta degli studi, 2003) . Also available via http://epa.oszk.hu/00300/00375/00001/durovicova.htm

Research Interests:

early sound; voice in cinema; Central/East European cinemas; film historiography; theories of space; translation in hybrid media (cinema, www); politics of translation; world Englishes

Nataša Durovicová is an editor at the International Writing Program, where she publishes 91st Meridian, the program’s online journal, and teaches or co-organizes a variety of contemporary literature courses issuing from the program’s residency. As a film scholar she does research on various aspects of language transfer in world cinemas, and on cinema in its national and post-national formations.