Dr. Selimovic specializes in 20th and 21st century Latin American narrative, focusing on women authors’ urban prose. She is particularly interested in the multiple ways in which late twentieth-century Latin American women authors imagine and depict the city as a source of both dangers and possibilities for their female subjects. In addition to her research interests in urban studies and gender, she has given papers on fiction by contemporary Latin American women writers, and published book reviews on both literary and cultural studies of Latin America and Spain. She has been awarded a Lilly Discovery Grant for 2006-2007 at Saint Mary’s College.

In addition to her academic experiences, Dr. Selimovic remains in touch with socio-political and cultural developments of her homeland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, volunteering for many different international organizations such as Network Bosnia and the United Nations. In 2004, she completed a three-month-long service at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as a translator between English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.