Andrea Lešić

Andrea Lešić-Thomas began to study Yugoslav literature and general literature (in Belgrade, 1991-1994), graduated in Russian and French, received a master's degree in European literature, and earned a doctorate from 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 language 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 of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, where she teaches mainly literary theory subjects in all three study cycles. She wrote about comparative literature (French, Russian and Southeast European literature) and literary theory (especially about structuralism, narratology, and Bakhtin, as well as about the problem of memory). Through her scientific and research work, she deals with the problem of cultural memory, cognitive poetics, love stories and vampires.

She participated in about 30 international scientific meetings.

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 (Bakhtin, Bart, structuralism: Literature as cognition and the possibility of freedom) (Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2011) and Popularni žanrovi i alternativni svjetovi: Atwood, Le Guin, Byatt  (Popular genres and alternative worlds: Atwood, Le Guin, Byatt) (Sarajevo: University Press, 2022), and editor-in-chief of the magazine Novi Izraz (from summer 2020).