Jasmina Savic

Assistant Professor

Russian: 20th- and 21st-century Russian literature and culture / sexuality / taboo discourses / postmodernism / South Slavic languages and cultures

Jasmina Savic is Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at George Mason University. Dr. Savic’s research focuses on late-Soviet and post-Soviet literature and culture, taboo and sexuality, émigré and underground literature, and public performance. She also more broadly examines cross-cultural taboos and sociopolitical discourses revolving around them. She is interested in comparative studies of (Soviet) Russian, Yugoslav, and U.S. censorships, cultural restrictions, official bans and prohibitions of sexually explicit materials, and anti-obscenity laws.

Prior to Mason, Dr. Savic taught as a lecturer in Russian Studies at Dartmouth College (2021-2024) and the University of Arizona (2019-2020), and as a primary instructor and research scholar at the University of Illinois (2010-2019, 2021). She taught numerous courses in Russian culture, literature, and language, as well as in Slavic cultures and cinema, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian languages.

Courses Taught

RUSS 110: Elementary Russian

RUSS 101: Elementary Russian I

RUSS 201: Intermediate Russian I

RUSS 202: Intermediate Russian II

RUSS 380: Advanced Russian I

RUSS 481 (online): Forth Year Russian

RUSS 325: Major Russian Writers (Vladimir Sorokin)

RUSS 326: 19th-Century Russian Literature

RUSS 353: Russian Civilization (Modern Russia and Its Culture)

Education

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M.A. University of Illinois at Chicago

B.A. University of Belgrade