Accession UAA-2007-053 - UAA-2007-053

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UAA-2007-053

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UAA-2007-053

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  • [1940-2007] (Creation)
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    Dimic, Milan

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4.52 m of textual records

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(1933 - 2007)

Biographical history

Milan Velimir Dimic was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1933. Dimic taught at the University of Belgrade from 1956 to 1963 before moving on to the University of Tubingen where he had been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Research Fellowship in their Department of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature.

Dimic joined the University of Alberta (U of A) in 1966 where he would become the founding chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. He took a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the U of A in 1968. Dimic was also appointed Chair of the Interdepartmental Program for Comparative Literature at the U of A. In 1973 Dimic took the position of Professor of Comparative Literature at the U of A. In the following year of 1974, Dimic became the founding editor of the journal, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.

In the following years Dimic took on several appointments including in 1983 when he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of the Humanities. In 1988 Dimic was appointed as University Professor at the U of A and maintained this position until 1998 when he became Professor Emeritus. It was also in 1998 when he became Editor Emeritus of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. From 2001 to 2004 Dimic became a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Throughout his career Dimic held several positions in the International Comparative Literature Association including, Vice President (1991-1994) and Special Advisor the President and Executive Council (1997-2001). Dimic published multiple articles on theory, literature and folklore throughout his career.

Dimic was married to Marguerite Garstin who passed away in 2006. Dimic passed away on March 11, 2007 in Belgrade.

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Personal and professional papers.

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good

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  • English

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    Main

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    open

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    accession register; index

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    7.17.2007

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    Contains materials transferred from UAA-2008-004.

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    DBRACEWELL 4.2.2009

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