Biljana Konatar
- Multi-Term Lecturer
- Lanugage Coordinator, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian
- Linguistic Anthropology | Sociolinguistics | Language Pedagogy | Heritage Language Learning | Syntax | Translation and Interpretation
Contact Info
Education —
Research —
Research interests:
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Sociolinguistics
- Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegren, Serbian & Russian
- Language Pedagogy (Heritage and Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning)
- Translation and Interpretation
Selected Presentations —
Konatar, B. (2024, May), What to Call Language and Literature Subject in Montenegro? An Analysis of Speakers' Attitudes, 23rd Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
Konatar, B. (2024, April), Enclitic Placement in Unrehearsed Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian Narration: Heritage vs. Non-Heritage Speakers, REECAS Northwest Conference, ASEEES Northwest Regional Conference, University of Washington, Seattle.
Konatar, B. (2023, August), “Contested Ideologies and Double Standards? The Case of Montenegro," Slavic Linguistics Society Conference (SLS-18), Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava.
Grants & Other Funded Activity —
Presidential Dissertation Fellowship in Arts and Humanities, Graduate School, UW, Seattle, 2023
Charles E. Townsend Memorial Fund Award, Honorable Mention, Slavic Linguistics Society, 2023
Chester Fritz International Fellowship, Graduate School, UW, Seattle, Summer 2023
Slavic Linguistics Society Conference 18 (SLS-18), Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, Travel Grant, 2023
Joff Hanauer Fellowship for Excellence in Western Civilizations, UW, Seattle, 2022-23