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Professor of Slavic languages
Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić
BornBiljana Šljivić
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
ThesisDeklinacija u paštrovskim ispravama 16–18. veka (1966)

Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Шљивић-Шимшић; 20 January 1933 – 4 October 2019) was a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois and an author of several scholastic books, including a Serbian-English dictionary.

Early life and education

Biljana Šljivić was born in 1933 in Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She obtained a degree from the University of Belgrade. In 1962, she moved from Yugoslavia to the United States, and went on to earn a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1966).

Career

In 1967 Šljivić-Šimšić was appointed assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also a research associate to Morton Benson at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is credited as a collaborator in the 1971 edition of the Serbocroatian-English dictionary that was first published in 1971 with the most recent edition dated 2017. Šljivić arrived at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1973, and spent the rest of her career there. First an associate professor, then a full professor, she was also the head of the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literature. She was named emeritus in 2009. In addition to the dictionary, Šljivić-Šimšić is known for textbooks used for learning the Serbian language.

She was one of the founders of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, its first secretary treasurer (1978-1983) and its president (1984-1986).

Selected publications

Honors

In 2021 there was a monograph published to honor her work.

References

  1. Serbocroaian-English dictionary. Prosveta. 1971.
  2. ^ "Online promocija monografije o deklinaciji u paštrovskim ispravama 16–18. vijeka – Montenegrina.net | Kultura, umjetnost i nasljeđe Crne Gore. Culture, Arts & Heritage of Montenegro". February 11, 2021. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  3. Meyer, Alfred G. (1967). "News of the Profession". Slavic Review. 26 (4): 713–715. doi:10.1017/S0037677900116390. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2492643. S2CID 251375017.
  4. Benson, Morton; Šljivić-Šimšić, Biljana (1971). SerboCroatian-English dictionary (Srpskohrvatsko-engleski rečnik). : University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-7636-1. OCLC 258533.
  5. "Serbocroatian-English Dictionary | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. 2017. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
  6. University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Staff directory. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. 1978–1979 – via University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  7. "UIHistories Project Repository". uihistories.library.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  8. The ultimate 2000 : directory of ethnic organizations, ethnic media and scholars for the Chicago metropolitan area. Chicago, IL : Illinois Ethnic Coalition. 2000. ISBN 978-0-9658445-2-9.
  9. Sljivic-Simsic, Biljana; Price, Robert F. (January 1987). Advanced Serbo-Croatian 2. Foreign Language Publications. ISBN 9780874151336.
  10. Šljivić-Šimšić, Biljana (1985). Serbo-Croatian, just for you: a first year course. Center for Slavic & East European Studies. OCLC 19766082.
  11. "Past Presidents". North American Society for Serbian Studies. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  12. Reviews for Standard English-Serbocroatian, SerboCroatian-English Dictionary
  13. Reviews for Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia
  14. Reviews for 1985 and 1987 textbooks

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