Office: Calhoun 3

Phone: 512-471-3607

jkolsti@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, Harvard University, 1968

Research interests:
Albanian oral epic songs and ballads

Courses taught:
Russian, Serbian/Croatian, Old Church Slavonic, Bulgarian
Old Russian Literature
Medieval Slavic Manuscripts
Slavic Folklore
Balkan Nationalism/Literature and Film

Recent Publications:
Reviews of articles on the Roma and books on the Bosnian poet Mak.
Dizdar and a bilingual anthology of Albanian epic poetry.

Awards/Honors:
Harry Ransom Teaching Award, 1989
Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas, 2007