Affiliate Professor; Slavic, Baltic, and East European Studies Librarian
Contact Information
(206) 543-5588
132 Suzzallo
Office Hours:
Spring 2023 - By appointment, when available from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily
Fields of Interest
Biography
Full CV (146.81 KB)Research
Selected Research
- Michael Biggins, trans. Vladimir Bartol. Al-Araf: a Collection of Literary Sketches. Ljubljana: Sanje Publishing, 2015.
- Michael Biggins, trans. and author of afterword. Drago Jančar. The Tree With No Name. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.
- “Americanizing Slovene Literature, or, Taking the Day-Tripper’s Path to the Summit Instead of the North Face: Slovene to English Literary Translation on the Society’s Fortieth Anniversary,” in Slovene Studies, vol. 35 (2013), no. 1-2: p. 55-70.
- Michael Biggins, trans. Florjan Lipuš.The Errors of Young Tjaž. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.
- Michael Biggins, trans. Tomaž Šalamun. The Blue Tower. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
- Michael Biggins, trans. Drago Jančar. The Galley Slave. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.
- Michael Biggins, trans. Boris Pahor. Necropolis. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
- “Post-1989 Publishing on Previously Suppressed Topics: Trends in Czech Contemporary History, with Reference to Poland,” in Books, Bibliographies and Pugs: a Festschrift to Honor Murlin Croucher (Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica Publishers, 2006): 13-29.
- Michael Biggins, trans. and author of afterword. Vladimir Bartol. Alamut. Seattle: Scala House Press, 2004. (European edition: Ljubljana: Sanje, 2005. Paperback edition: San Francisco: North Atlantic Books, 2007.)
- "Tomaž Šalamun," in South Slavic Writers Since World War II. Detroit : Gale Press, 1997 (Dictionary of Literary Biography ; vol. 181): p. 288-294.
- "Edvard Kocbek," in South Slavic Writers Before World War II. Detroit : Gale Press, 1995. (Dictionary of Literary Biography ; vol. 147): p. 79-86.
- Michael Biggins, trans. Katarina Marinčič. Three. Translation typescript completed
Research Advised: Graduate Masters Theses
Courses Taught
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Winter 2020
Autumn 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Autumn 2017
Spring 2017
Winter 2017
Autumn 2016
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- A GIFT FOR SHARING SLOVENIA - November 30, 2022
- Affiliate Professor Michael Biggins Interviewed in Slovenian Newspaper - October 5, 2021
- Dr. Michael Biggins Receives Trubar Award - January 12, 2021
- Applications Now Being Accepted for the 2020 UW-University of Ljubljana Scholars Exchange! - August 1, 2019
- UW - University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Scholars Exchange, 2019 - October 31, 2018
- Michael Biggins to deliver keynote address at the annual "Midwest Slavic Conference" - March 20, 2018
- UW - University of Ljubljana Scholars exchange - October 25, 2017
- Visit to UW by Slovene Government Minister - October 25, 2017
- Russian Architecture Event recieves write up on Russian news site - May 12, 2017
- Visiting Scholar of Slovene Literature at UW Fall Quarter 2016 - July 28, 2016
- Visit to UW by Slovenian Prime Minister - December 17, 2015
- Slovene national news article about Affiliate Professor Michael Biggins - June 3, 2015
- UW and University of Primorska (Slovenia) in research collaboration 2015-2017 - April 20, 2015
- Michael Biggins named 2015 Janko Lavrin laureate - February 27, 2015
- Ostromir Gospels - September 22, 2014
- Biggins interviewed for Slovene literary magazine - November 7, 2013