Vesna Goldsworthy
teaches modern English literature and drama at the University of London and St. Lawrence University, New York. She is the author of Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination , 1998, and has contributed to a number of articles and books including, most recently, the Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, 1999; Representing Lives: Women and Autobiography, 1999; Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies, 2000.
Eurozine Articles
Not quite European... Scrutinizing the Balkan's neo-colonialism
Interview with Vesna Goldsworthy
Victims and perpetrators of the Balkan myth. [more]
Invention and in(ter)vention: The rhetoric of Balkanization
Vesna Goldsworthy looks at how Western commentators romanticize the Balkans' history of alleged bloodshed, feudal hatreds and perpetual war. How can these myths be debunked? [more]





