Silvia Anastasijevic, Magistra Artium
Research Assistant to Jun.-Prof. Magdalena Pfalzgraf
Editorial Assistant at Matatu: Journal for African Literary and Cultural Studies (Brill)
Doctoral Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt
Research Interests
- World Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
- Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies
- Humor Studies
- Indigenous Literatures and Cultures
- (Cross-) Media Studies
Functions and Activities
- Co-Chair of the GRADE Initiative “Transcultural Narratives" (Goethe University Frankfurt) since March 2021
- Treasurer of the Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) from May 2020 until May 2022
- Treasurer of the Calliopean Society e. V. from June 2016 until February 2019
- Mentee of SciMento (Mentoring Hessen) from November 2016 until April 2018
Publications
Anastasijevic, Silvia, Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler (Editors). The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature: Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
Anastasijevic, Silvia, Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler (Editors). Moving Centers & Traveling Cultures. Special Issue of Kairos. A Journal of Critical Symposium 4.1, 2019.
"Beyond the Victim-Perpetrator Paradigm: Overcoming 'Single Stories' Through Humor?" Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Edited by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, Pavan Malreddy, and Frank Schulze-Engler. Heidelberg: Heidelberg UP, in print.
“Inside/Outside the Joke? Humor Across and Between Cultures.” Collisions of Cultures: Frictions and Re-Shapings. Edited by Lily Rose Tope and Wolfgang Zach. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac. 2022.
Anastasijevic, Silvia, Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler (Editors). “Moving Centers & Traveling Cultures: Readings in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures”. Moving Centers & Traveling Cultures. Special Issue of Kairos. A Journal of Critical Symposium 4.1, 2019: 1-8.
“Transcultural Humor.” Keywords in Transcultural English Studies. Department of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, December 2019.
Teaching
Epic Tales in Anglophone Media: Heroes, Myths, and Legends
Undergraduate seminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, winter term 2022/23
Reading Indigenous Visual Media
Undergraduate seminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, summer term 2022
Research Colloquium "Transculturality in the Anglophone World"
Co-Chair of the weekly Research Colloquium of the Department of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt, summer term 2021, winter term 2021/22, summer term 2022
Narratives of Ethnic and National Identity
Undergraduate seminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, winter term 2021/22
Revisions, Intertextuality, Adaptations: The Art of Rewriting
Undergraduate seminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, summer term 2021
Fictions of Empire
Undergraduate seminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, winter term 2020/21
Are You Joking? Anglophone Stand-Up Comedy from the 19th to the 21st Century
Undergraduate seminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, summer term 2020
Seriously funny? Transcultural Humor in the English-Speaking World
Undergraduate seminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, winter term 2019/20.
Conferences & Symposia
“Stories Within Stories: Humor and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water.” Postcolonial Theories and Literatures in the Twenty-First Century. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, October 4-5, 2024.
Co-Organizer of the panel “The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature, Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions” with Nadia Butt and Magdalena Pfalzgraf. Postcolonial Theories and Literatures in the Twenty-First Century. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, October 4-5, 2024.
“The Other Within: Humorous Transgressions in The Infidel.” 19th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. University of Toronto (Online), July 11-15, 2022.
"Beyond the Victim-Perpetrator Paradigm: Overcoming 'Single Stories' Through Humor." 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies. Goethe University Frankfurt, May 26-29, 2022.
“Transcultural Encounters: Remembering the Colonial Past through Comedy.” 5th Annual Memory Studies Association (MSA), University of Warsaw (Online), July 5-9, 2021.
“Transcultural Comedy and the Migrant Experience.”17th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Cardiff University (Online), June 28-31, 2021.
Co-Chair of the 5th Annual Postgraduate Forum “Postcolonial Narrations 2018” with Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler: Organization of the conference "Moving Centers and Traveling Cultures", Goethe University Frankfurt, October 10-12, 2018.
"Transcultural Encounters: Remembering Colonial History Through Comedy." 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies. Goethe University Frankfurt, May 21-24, 2020. Conference canceled due to pandemic.
"Toward a Theory of Transcultural Humor." 29th Annual Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies. Université du Quebec à Montréal, July 10-14, 2017.
"Transcultural Humor and the City: Cross-cultural Encounters in Urban Spaces." 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. University of Oviedo, April, 3-7, 2017.
"Inside/Outside the Joke: Forms of Exclusion and Inclusion in Transcultural Humor." 17th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. University of Stellenbosch, July 10-15, 2016.
"Transcultural Narratives in Anglophone Humor: The Case of Stand-Up Comedy." 28th Annual Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies. Trinity College Dublin, June 27-July 1, 2016.
"Transcultural Humorscapes in Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media: Humorous Representation and Communication in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America." 27th Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies. University of Augsburg, May 5-7, 2016.
Co-Organizer of the international symposium “Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South“ with John Njenga Karugia, Anne Löber, Frank Schulze-Engler, and Jarula Wegner. Held at the Department for New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Goethe University, January 20-21, 2016.
"Laughter Across Borders: The Complexities of Transcultural Humor." Invited talk to the graduate seminar Satire and Humour in African Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures by Prof. Rodwell Makombe. November 25, 2024.