Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Miranda Jakiša

Miranda Jakiša Professor of South Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Vienna since 2019. Before that she was from 2008 Professor of South and East Slavic Literatures at Humboldt University Berlin. She is President of the Austrian Association of Slavonic Studies and Head of Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft Wien.

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Research interests

  • Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian literatures and cultures (18.-21.st centuries)
  • Oral Epics of the South Slavs - Heroic Tradition and its contemporary remains
  • Aesthetic strategies of dissensus, cultures of resentment
  • Literature and cultural identities, Transnational Literature in Slavic Studies, multilingualism, cultures of gastarbajt
  • Yugoslav partisan literature and film, (Post-)Yugoslav film
  • Documentary and postdramatic theater

Fellowships

  • Fellow at Imre-Kertesz-Kolleg "Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert" at the University of Jena, 10/2013-3/2014
  • Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, 8/2014-9/2014 and 6/2023-8/2023
  • Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University in research area "Cultures and Politics of Resentment", 8/2017-7/2018
  • Visiting Fellow at Aleksanteri-Insitut at the University of Helsinki, 4/2023-5/2023

Recent publication

Südslawisches Wien. Zur Sichtbarkeit und Präsenz südslawischer Sprachen und Kulturen im Wien der Gegenwart, Böhlau: Wien 2022. (with Katharina Tyran)