Popović, Ljudmila

Popović, Ljudmila

Comparative Literature and Humanities scholar; Associate Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science 

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Comparative Literature and Humanities scholar; Associate Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science 

Ljudmila Popovich is a Comparative Literature and Humanities scholar associated with the University of Colorado at Boulder, whose doctoral work focuses on the issues of women’s migrations and migrant women's subjectivity in relation to globalization processes. An Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, she serves as the Chair of the Academy’s Membership Communications Committee. She is an Associate Expert on Gender Issues and Humanities within the Seventh Research Framework Programme at the European Commission. Additionally, Popovich is an Associate Scholar of The Mediterranean Seminar, Interdisciplinary and Interuniversity Forum for the Study of Mediterranean Societies and Cultures, University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Colorado at Boulder. She has published on a range of interdisciplinary topics such as international cinema, nationalism and women’s issues, new economic paradigm and global crisis. Equally interested in creative work, she has been publishing poetry both in her native Montenegro and in the U.S., as well as performing as an international dance artist. As an activist, Popovich is engaged in the environmental and women’s issues in her resident community of Denver, Colorado.