Dijana Simić

Dijana Simić is a university assistant of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian (B/C/S) literary and cultural studies in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz. Her teaching and research focus on Migration, Gender, and Memory Studies in the Former Yugoslav context. After graduating in B/C/S-philology in 2013, she attended the interdisciplinary doctoral program "Southeastern Europe" at the Center for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz and continued her education in the field of Slovenian Philology at the Universities of Graz and Ljubljana. As a Marietta-Blau-fellow, she worked on her dissertation project on “Narratives of Intimacy as Literary Counterpublics. An Analysis of Character Constellations in Bosnian-Herzegovinian Prose Since 2000” at the Central European University in Budapest and the Universities of Banja Luka, Sarajevo, and Tuzla in 2017.