| Dr. Petrovic was born May 20, 1933 in Vucitrn, Kosovo, Serbia, Yugoslavia to father, Masan, and mother, Zivka. He married his wife, Klara, from Lodz, Poland in Paris, France on November 10, 1960. Dr. and Mrs. Petrovic have two daughters, Tamara, and Jasmina, and son, Petar and one granddaughter, Natasha (Petar's child).
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| Degree | Field | Date | Granting Institution |
| B.A. | a. Serbian Language & Literature b. French Language & Literature | 1953 | Classical College No. 5, Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| Superior Diploma | Comparative Literature | 1957 | University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| M.A. | French Language & Literature | 1962 | University of Montreal, P.Q., Cananda |
| Ph. D. | Slavic and Comparative Lit. | 1967 | University of Montreal, P.Q., Canada |
Research and Other Educational Training
Scholarship given by the French Government (1957-1961) for study and research on Ph.D. thesis on Marcel Proust at La Sorbonne, Paris, France (discontinued in 1961). Study, research, and completion of doctoral thesis: Ivo Andric: L'homme et l'oeuvre at the University of Montreal (1962-1966). Research and study on contemporary Serbian novelists, Dobrica Cosic and Mesa Selimovic, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia during the summer of 1973. NEH Grant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hall for post-graduate study of modern French literature in 1977.
| 1961-1964 | Classical College of St. Jean, St. Jean, P.Q., Canada | -Asst. Prof. |
| 1964-1965 | Royal Military College of St. Jean, St. Jean, P.Q., Canada | -Asst. Prof. |
| 1965-1967 | Nebraska Weslyan University, Lincoln Nebraska | -Associate Professor |
| 1967-present | University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania | -Professor |
| Fren 423 Seventeenth Century French Studies Literary, philosophical, and social expression in France from 1610 to 1789. |
Fren 425 Eighteenth Century French Studies The French literary and philosophical enlightenment from 1715 to 1789. |
Fren 427 Nineteenth Century French Novel The development of the French prose narration as reflected in the literary movents of romanticism, realism, and symbolism. |
Fren 429 Nineteenth Century French Poetry The development of the French poetic forms from the romantic to the symbolist movement inclusively. |
| Fren 431 Twentieth Century French Novel The development of the French prose narration from the Dreyfus case to the present. |
Fren 431 Twentieth Century French Drama The development of the French dramatic forms from the Theatre Libre to the present. |
Greek 205 Legacy of Greece and Rome Survey of the artistic and cultural treasures of classical Greece and Rome with a focus on their enduring legacy in our own civilization. |
Greek 295 Greek Culture-Travel This travel course is a study of the treasures of classical Greece and a visual and empirical examination of its remains in the present, with a special emphasis of its influence in our own society.Click here to see details. |
| LIT 208 French Masterpieces in English Translation The study of selected major works from the leading French writers of the nineteenth and twentieth century that have made an important contribution to the development of Western civilization. Such authors as Stendhal, Flaubert, Gide, Proust, Camus, and Malraux will be discussed. |
LIT 209 Masterworks of Russian and Slavic Literature A survey of major literary achievments of Slavic peoples. Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Cosic, Sienkiewicz, and Pasternak will be read. No knowledge of Slavic languages is required. All readings and lectures are in English. |
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