Andrea Lešić

Andrea Lešić-Thomas began studying Yugoslav literature and general literature (in Belgrade, 1991-1994), graduated in Russian and French, received a master's degree in European literature, and received a doctorate in Roland Barthes and Mikhail Bakhtin (all in London, at Queen Mary, University of London, between 1994 and 2001). In London, she taught as a lecturer in Serbo-Croatian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (1998-2001), and, after her doctorate, Russian literature at Queen Mary, University of London (2001-2005). Since April 2008, she has been working at the Department of Comparative Literature and Information Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, where she teaches mainly literary theory courses in all three cycles of studies. She has written on comparative literature (French, Russian, and Southeast European literatures) and literary theory (especially structuralism, narratology, and Bakhtin, as well as the problem of memory). Her scientific research focuses on the problem of cultural memory, cognitive poetics, love stories, and vampires. She has participated in about 30 international scientific conferences. She has published in journals such as Modern Language Review, Paragraph, International Journal of the Humanities, Sarajevske sveske, Novi Izraz and Zeničke sveske. She is the author of the books Bahtin, Bart, strukturalizam: Književnost kao spoznaja i mogućnost slobode (Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2011), opularni žanrovi i alternativni svjetovi: Atwood, Le Guin, Byatt  (Sarajevo: University Press, 2022) and Constructions of Hope and Hopelessness: War and Traumatic Memories in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature and Culture (Sarajevo: Slavistički komitet, 2024). She was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Novi Izraz (2020-2024). She is the president of the PEN Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina.