Biljana Konatar


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

Wescoe Hall, Rm 2130

Education

Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle
Graduate Certificate in Foreign and Second Language Teaching/Learning, University of Washington Seattle, 2021
M.A. in Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Missouri, 2019

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