Tomislav Longinovic is professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and published fiction writer in both English and his native Serbo-Croatian. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and his academic books include Borderline Culture (1993) and Vampire Nation (2011). He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled The Secret of Translation: Emerging Border Cultures. At OSU, he is giving a talk on “The Balkan Route: Space, Translation, Imagination”