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Dept of Slavic Lang & Lits
3010 Modern Languages Building
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1275
734.647.2141
bastolz@umich.edu

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965

Professor Stolz is a well-known historical linguist specializing in the South Slavic field. His research interests include Serbo-Croatian historical grammar, language standardization in the South Slavic area, and Slavic folklore.

• First-Year Serbo-Croatian: SC 131/132
• Second-Year Serbo-Croatian: SC 231/232
• Directed Reading of Serbo-Croatian Literautre: SC 439
• Introduction to Slavic Folklore: Slav 240
• Fundamentals of Slavic Linguistics: Slav 483

Publications:

Professor Stolz is the author and editor of a number of specialized studies, including "Serbo-Croatian as a Balkan Diplomatic Language during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" (1984), Konstantin Mihailovic, Memoirs of a Janissary (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1975), "The Bugarstica as South Slavic Oral Traditional Poetry" (Folia Slavica 1984), "Dositej Obradovic i koncepcija jezika i nacije" (Naucni sastanak i Vukove dane, Belgrade, 1989), "Philologia Militans: N.S. Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson on the Church Slavonic Legacy" (with J. Toman; American Contrib. to the 11th Congress of Slavists, 1993)and "Znacaj 1847. za srpsku kulturu", Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, Belgrade, 1997 (in press). He is currently preparing a monograph on language and nationalism in the Former Yugoslavia.