Social, cultural and national identities
Dr Dejan Djokic, Lecturer in Serbian and Croatian Studies
His research interests lie in political and social history of Yugoslavia in the first half of the 20C, Serb-Croat relations, national and other identities among the South Slavs, and history of the Cold War in Europe. Dr Djokic is currently completing a book on interwar Yugoslavia and has recently edited a special issue of 'European History Quarterly' on contacts and debates between various socialist groups and individuals in both Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War, which challenges indirectly the East-West division of the continent.
Dr David Norris, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Dr Norris's research interests include modern Serbian cultural studies; the relationship of literature to culture and ideology in small nations; Serbian and Croatian literature; literary and cultural theory and methodological issues in literary history. He writes about the evolution of a specific Balkan semiotics in the Western imagination and cultural developments which have helped to shape Balkan identities and histories. His current work concerns dominant patterns of representation in Serbian literature and film during the civil wars of the 1990s in the region.