Denis is a PhD student in German and Comparative Literature. Prior to Northwestern, he studied at Arizona State University, and graduated in 2005, earning degrees in German and English Literature. Before arriving to the United States in 1998, Denis lived in Germany for five years, whereto he emigrated following the collapse of Yugoslavia, the country of his birth.
Denis' interests are wide-ranging, but if hard-pressed to enumerate the ones he is presently most preoccupied with, those would be, in no particular order: topics dealing with identity and identity formation, globalization, nationalism, avant-garde, literature/philosophy dialectic, aesthetic theory, inter- and multiculturalism, problems of translation, philosophy, literature/culture dynamics, exile literatures, all within the wide context of late 19th to 21st century literatures in German, English, and Slavic languages.