Aleksandar Bošković 

MEMBER-AT-LARGE CANDIDATE

Aleksandar Bošković is Senior Lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at Columbia University and a scholar of Slavic and East European modernism, avant-garde studies, and Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cultural history. His work bridges literary studies, film and media theory, visual culture, and experimental artistic practices, with particular attention to questions of cultural memory, transnational modernism, and the politics of representation. He is the author of The Poetic Humor in Vasko Popa’s Œuvre (2008), co-editor of The Fine Feats of “The Five Cockerels’ Gang”: A Yugoslav Marxist-Surrealist Epic Poem for Children (2022), Zenithism: A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (2023), and Ništa / Nothing (2025). He previously served as Co-Director of the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute. 

A member of ASEEES since 2009, he has long contributed to the organization through conference panels, interdisciplinary events, and initiatives fostering dialogue across generations, languages, and fields of inquiry. As a member-at-Large, he would strongly advocate for supporting younger scholars, especially those facing increasing institutional and economic precarity, while also promoting the visibility and importance of less commonly taught Slavic languages and the cultural diversity of the broader Slavic, East European, and Eurasian world. He is committed to strengthening ASEEES as a space for rigorous intellectual exchange, mentorship, and international collaboration across the humanities and arts. At the same time, he believes the organization should continue promoting not only top-notch scholarship, but also intellectually adventurous and publicly engaged forms of “creative scholarship” capable of reaching audiences beyond academia and demonstrating the broader cultural relevance of the humanities today.