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Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić

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Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić
Born
Biljana 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.[1]

Early life and education

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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[when?] and a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1966).[2]

Career

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In 1967 Šljivić-Šimšić was appointed assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.[3] 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[4] with the most recent edition dated 2017.[5] Šljivić arrived at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1973, and spent the rest of her career there. First an associate professor,[6] then a full professor, she was also the head of the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literature.[7][8] She was named emeritus in 2009.[2] In addition to the dictionary, Šljivić-Šimšić is known for textbooks used for learning the Serbian language.[9][10]

She was one of the founders of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, its first secretary treasurer (1978-1983)[citation needed] and its president (1984-1986).[11][2]

Selected publications

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  • SerboCroatian-English Dictionary. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1971. ISBN 9780812276367.[12]
  • Silverman, Joseph H.; Armistead, Samuel Gordon (1971). Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia. Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780835797474.[13]
  • Šljivić-Šimšić, Biljana (1985). Serbo-Croatian, Just for You: A First Year Course. Center for Slavic & East European Studies.
  • Sljivic-Simsic, Biljana; Price, Robert F. (January 1987). Advanced Serbo-Croatian 2. Foreign Language Publications. ISBN 9780874151336.[14]

Honors

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In 2021 there was a monograph published to honor her work.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Serbocroaian-English dictionary. Prosveta. 1971.
  2. ^ a b c d "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). [Philadelphia]: 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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