Jim Hicks is director of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature. His research and teaching interests include cultural studies, representations of war, comparative studies in American literature, as well as modernist narrative and literary theory. He has studied in France, lectured in Italy, and taught in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a Fulbright Professor of English. He also directed an Educational Partnership Program with the University of Sarajevo as well as the American Studies Diploma Program at Smith College—a small, one-year graduate program for international students. He is the editor of the Massachusetts Review. His book Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2013.