LJILJANA BOGOEVA SEDLAR ON RADMILA

I met Radmila Nastić in the early 1990s. She came to me at the advice of Professor Vida E. Marković, whose student and assistant I was and whose courses I continued to teach after her retirement. She wished me to take up mentoring doctoral students whose thesis she could not supervise because she needed all the free time she could get for the multivolume memoire she was writing. When we met, Radmila had already obtained her master’s degree in English for a thesis on Eugene O’Neill. Working on a comparative study of Harold Pinter and Edward Albee was a natural continuation of her prior interests in modern drama. The thesis, published in 1998 as Drama in the Age of Irony (my suggested title was Political Use of the Absurd) was very well received by the Serbian public and made it possible for Radmila to begin her career in the academia. Several decades later, this special volume of Lipar is a testimony of a life well spent. It is a tribute by students and colleagues from several universities where she has taught, but especially the Faculty of Philology and Arts of University of Kragujevac, whose faculty member she has been since 2005. A genuine love of literature translates into a life of dedication to the best that has been known and thought by humanity. Professor Nastić has shared this love with the students she tirelessly encouraged in their quest for knowledge and supported in their desire to find original ways to demonstrate and develop their creativity. After being once her mentor, it is a privilege, now, to be her colleague and friend. Ljiljana Bogoeva Sedlar

Lipar / Journal for Literature, Language, Art and Culture / Year XVIII / Volume 63

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Излагање на конференцији The Viewing of Politics and the Politics of Viewing: Theatre Challenges in the Age of Globalized Communities, The School of English of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 20 April 2013, “Political Theatre Now Is Even More Important Than It Ever Was”.

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