Jim Hicks

Jim Hicks is a former Executive Editor of the Massachusetts Review. During his years working for the Program in Comparative Literature, he served as both chair and graduate program director and was nominated three times for the University’s Distinguished Graduate Mentor award. 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  studied in France, lectured in Italy, and taught in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a Fulbright Professor of English. He  also directed a three-year 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. His translations include short pieces by Italo Calvino, Ananda Devi, Juan José Saer, Izet Sarajlić, and longer works by Erri De Luca. His Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2013. In 2024, his translation of Federica Marzi's novel, My Home Somewhere Else was published by Sandorf Passage, and his translation, with Anna Botta, of Sami al-Ajrami's The Keys to My House: A Gaza Diary will be published by Interlink Books in 2026.

WORKING LANGUAGES

• Italian
• French
• Spanish
• Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian