Cooper, Henry R. jr.

Cooper was graduated from the selective Bronx High School of Science of New York City (1960-1963), received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York (C.C.N.Y., 1967), and a Masters Degree in Slavic literatures (1969) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic literatures (1974) from Columbia University in the City of New York. He taught Russian and Polish at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A., from 1974 to 1981, and Russian and South Slavic languages at Indiana University from 1981 to 2010. He anticipates retirement in October 2010. At Indiana he has served as director of the Russian and East European Institute, Acting Dean for International Programs, and chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
He was elected corresponding member of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1995.
His writings include scholarly monographs and articles on Slavic literatures and Slavic literary history as well as translations of prose and poetry from Slovene, Serbian, and Croatian. He is the author or co-author of several anthologies of South Slavic literatures in English translation, and has served as editor of Slovene Studies: Journal of the Society for Slovene Studies.
His principal works include: The Igor Tale: An Annotated Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Non-Soviet Scholarship on the Slovo o polku Igoreve, 1978; Papers in Slovene Studies, 1978; The Language of Pushkin, 1980, revised 1994; Francè Prešeren, 1981; To Honor Jernej Kopitar, 1780-1980, 1982; Four Hundred Years of the South Slavic Protestant Reformation, 1584-1984, 1984; Lubi Slovenci: A Festschrift to Honor Rado L. Lencek on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, 3 October 1986, 1987; Indiana Slavic Studies: A Volume to Honor William Edgerton, 1990; Marko Marulić, Judith (translation), 1991; France Prešeren: Poems/Pesmi (translation), 1999); Slavic Scriptures: The History of the Formation of the Church Slavonic Version of the Holy Bible, 2003; Bilingual Anthology of Slovene Literature, 2003; Anthology of Bulgarian Literature, 2007); and Anthology of Croatian Literature (in preparation). In addition he has published over 100 scholarly articles, book reviews, and additional translations.
He has been or currently is a member and past president of the Society for Slovene Studies, the Southeast European Studies Association, the Bulgarian Studies Association, the North American Serbian Studies Association, the Early Slavic Literature Association the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, the Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius, and other professional organizations. For ten years he was chair of the board of Slavica Publishers of Indiana University. He has also served on Fulbright and ACLS selection committees. He has received significant grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for International Education, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of State.
In addition to his election to the Slovene Academy, he has received the following honors and recognitions: Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma Chapter (C.C.N.Y.), 1966; Pi Delta Phi (French Honor Society, C.C.N.Y.), 1966; Graduate Honors in Slavic, CCNY, 1966-67; Prize for Papers in Problems of Slovene Culture, 1976-77; Order of the Yugoslav Flag with Gold Star, 1989; Zahvala (Acknowledgment), Government of the Republic of Slovenia, 1992; and the John W. Ryan Award for International Service, Indiana University, 1994. He has also received the following fellowships and awards: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1967; NDFL-NDEA Fellowships, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969; New York State Regents Fellowships, 1963-67; Fellow of the Russian Institute, Columbia University, 1968; President's Fellow, Columbia University, 1971-73; Fellow of the Faculty, Columbia University, 1972-73; Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship, 1972-73; Fulbright Fellowship (Poland), 1974; Fellowship, Skup slavista u Vukove dane, Belgrade, 1973; Grant, League of Slovenian-Americans, 1976; Fellowship, XIIth and XVIth Seminars of Slovene Language, Literature and Culture, Ljubljana, 1976, 1980; Fellowship, Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985; IREX (Bulgaria), August 1979, August 1980; Fellowship, XXXIInd Yugoslav Seminar for Foreign Slavists, Zadar and Belgrade, 1981; Fellowship, Zagreb Slavistics School, Dubrovnik and Zagreb, 1982, 2002; President's Council on International Programs Research Award, Indiana University, 1982; ACLS Travel Grant, 1983; IU-Zagreb University Faculty Exchange, 1985; REEI Summer Fellowship, 1985; ACLS-JCEE Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988-89; IREX (Bulgaria), August 1991; ACLS-JCEE Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1995; and an Indiana University Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2003.