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Margaret Beissinger
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Research Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures |
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038 East Pyne |
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Tuesdays/Thursdays 2:00PM-3:00PM or by appointment |
| telephone: |
609-258-3874 |
| e-mail: |
mhbeissi@princeton.edu |
| education: |
PhD in Folklore & Mythology (South Slavic and Romanian) (Harvard University, 1984); AB in Folklore & Mythology (Harvard University 1976) |
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My scholarship and teaching center on Balkan oral traditions, Romani (Gypsy) culture, oral epic, and Balkan languages and literatures. I am especially interested in the role of Roma as performers of traditional and popular culture in Balkan society, oral epic as a genre, and gender and narrative in eastern Europe. Until fall 2006, I was an Associate Professor in the Slavic Department and Folklore Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I also taught Balkan languages and comparative oral literature.
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current project:
I am in the process of writing Culture and Performance among Romanian Gypsy Musicians (a book on southern Romanian Gypsy musician families, their worlds, and repertoires, based on extensive fieldwork). Two articles are being completed this summer/fall (2007): "History and the Making of South Slavic Epic" for Homer and Archaeology, ed. John Bennet and Paul Halstead, and "Court Poetry, Village Verse: Romanian Oral Epic from Medieval Times to the Present" for Medieval Oral Literature, ed. Karl Reichl. Also in process is a reading of fictional representations of female Roma in the works of Pushkin, Stankovic, and Voiculescu ("Fate, Free Will, and Imagined Gypsy Identities: Literary Depictions of Romani Women").
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courses:
Courses taught:
Romani (Gypsy) Culture in Russia and Eastern Europe (FRS 151)
Balkan and East European Oral Traditions (Comp. Lit./Slavic/Hellenic Studies)
Beginning Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I (BCS 101)
Beginning Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II (BCS 102)
Romanian (Reading Course)
Bulgarian (Reading Course)
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"'Muzica Oriental': Identity and Popular Culture in Post Communist Romania."
in Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourses. Ed. Donna A. Buchanan. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. 95-141. (forthcoming)
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"Roma."
in Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife. Vol. 3. Ed. William M. Clements. Westport, CT: The Greenwood Press, 2006. 395-408.
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"Romani (Gypsy) Music Making at Weddings in Post Communist Romania: Political Transitions and Cultural Adaptations."
in Folklorica: Journal of the Slavic and
East European Folklore Association. Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 2005): 39-51.
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"The Performance of 'Oriental Music' in Contemporary Romania."
in Ethnic Identities in Dynamic Perspective. Eds. Sheila Salo and Csaba Prónai. Budapest: Gondalat Ethnic and National Minority Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2003. 229-36.
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"Rites of Passage and Oral Storytelling in Balkan Epic and the New Testament."
in Oral Tradition: A Special Issue--The Bible in Ancient and Modern Media. Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall 2002): 236-58.
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"Gender and Power in the Balkan Return Song."
in Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 45, No. 3 (Fall 2001): 403-30.
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"Occupation and Ethnicity: Constructing Identity Among Romani (Gypsy) Musicians in Romania."
in Slavic Review. Vol. 60, No. 1 (Spring 2001): 24-49.
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"Teaching South Slavic Languages: A Survey of Textbooks and Reference Works."
in The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures. Eds. Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin. Bloomington: Slavica Publishing, 2000. 609-26.
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"Creativity in Performance: Words and Music in Balkan and Old French Epic."
in The Oral Epic: Performance and Music. Ed. Karl Reichl. Intercultural Music Studies. Vol. 12. Ed. Max Peter Baumann. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000. 95-113.
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"Epic, Gender, and Nationalism: The Development of Nineteenth Century Balkan Literature."
in Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community. Eds. Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 69-86. And "Introduction." coauthored with Jane Tylus and Susanne Wofford. 1- 17.
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"Balkan Folklore and Literature."
in Folklore and Literature: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce A. Rosenberg. Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 1998. 42-46.
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"Text and Music in Romanian Oral Epic."
in Oral Tradition. Vol. 3, No. 3 (October 1988).
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