Frane Karabatic
Lecturer —

Contact
- E-mail: frane.karabatic@austin.utexas.edu
- Office: BUR 570
- Office Hours: FALL 2020: Mondays and Wednesdays 12pm-1pm, and by appointment
Interests
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Russian language pedagogy; language teaching methodology; creating language instructional materials; second language acquisition; Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian cinema; masculinity in the twentieth-century Russian literature.
Biography
Frane is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian studies and teaches primarily courses related to Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Russian language. He is also working on finishing his PhD studies at the University of Kansas focusing on second language acquisition. He holds an MA in Slavic Languages & Literatures from the University of Kansas, and an MA in Croatian and Italian Language & Literature from the University of Split, Croatia. His secondary research focuses on masculinity in the twentieth-century Russian literature. He has been teaching B/C/S as a second language since 2009. In the past, together with B/C/S, he has been also teaching all levels of Italian and elementary Russian. In addition to teaching at the University of Texas, Frane has significant experience working as an interpreter and in teaching courses at the University of Kansas, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Iowa, and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Besides language classes, he has also taught South Slavic Literature and Civilization; The Peoples and Cultures of South-Eastern Europe through Film; Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe; Literatures of Central and Eastern Europe; Cinema in Communist and Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe; The Vampire in Literature, Film, and Television.