Nikola Moravcevic
Nikolas Moravcevich (Serbian Cyrillic:? Latin: Nikola Moravcevic) is a university professor, critic and writer. He was born in a family of Serbian officer of Yugoslav Royal Army in Zagreb, on 10th December 1935.
After he completed undergraduate studies at the Academy for Theatre Arts at the University of Belgrade in 1955, he moved to the United States. After three years of service in the U.S. Army, he continued his graduate studies, obtaining a magisterial degree in Theatrical Directing from the School of Theatre Arts at the Institute of Chicago in 1961, and in 1964 a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.
He subsequently taught at Steven's College in Missouri as an assistant professor (1964-66) and at the University of Illinois at Chicago as an associate professor (1968-71) and full professor (1971-1993). At UIC he also held several administrative positions. In 1968, he founded the Slavic Department and served as its head for thirteen years (until 1981). From 1981 to 1988, he served as the University's Vice-Chancellor and director of campus development.
His scholarly work includes over a hundred and fifty essays and critical reviews in the spheres of Russian, French and Serbian Literature, published in various collections of essays, several leading encyclopedias and a wide array of scholarly journals in the United States and Canada. The periodicals which have most of his scholarly contributions are in Comparative Literature, Slavic and East European Journal, Drama Critique, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Drama Survey, Comparative Drama, Russian Literature, L'Europe du Sud-Est, Comparative Literature Studies, Russian Language Journal, Bucknell Review, The New Review, Journal of Baltic Studies, Books Abroad, World Literature Today, The South Slav Journal, Slavic Review, and Serbian Studies.
His most notable creative literary endeavor is a historical novel Albion, Albion, which was published in Belgrade in the fall of 1994. This work was chosen as one of the ten best novels written in Serbian language during that year in best-sellers throughout 1995. Moravcevic also received, in the summer of 1998, the Rastko Petrovic Literary Award for the best Serbian novel written in Diaspora.
In 2003, he published another historical novel, Light of The West – Lux Occidentalis.
Dr. Moravcevich is a member of several American and international scholarly associations and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the Wroclaw University in Poland. From 1980 to 1994, he served as the Chief Editor of the only scholarly journal in America dedicated to the Serbian culture, Serbian Studies. Since 1990, professor Moravcevich has been a member of the Crown Council of Aleksandar Karadordevic.
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