Aida Vidan

Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 2000
Independent scholar
Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Center

Contact Information
vidan@post.harvard.edu

Research Interests
South Slavic oral traditions; Slavic mythology; south Slavic literatures; Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Current Projects
Thematic database of ballads and lyric songs from the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University; a book on connections between south Slavic oral traditions and mythology; translation of a book of poetry by the Croatian poet Drago Stambuk.

Selected Publications
Embroidered with Gold, Strung with Pearls: The Traditional Ballads of Bosnian Women (Cambridge: The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature & Harvard University Press, 2003).