Silvia Anastasijevic, M. A.

   

Doctoral Researcher

Silvia Anastasijevic is a PhD candidate at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She studied English and American Studies at Goethe University and graduated with a Magistra Artium degree in November 2014. In her PhD thesis, she examines “Multidirectional Laughter: Transcultural Humorscapes in Anglophone Literature, Film, Digital Media and Performance Art” (working title). Her supervisors are Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler and Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll.

 
Research Interests

  • Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
  • Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies
  • Humor Studies
  • Indigenous Literatures and Cultures
  • (Trans-) Media Studies
  • Gender Studies

Publications

  • “Inside/Outside the Joke? Humor Across and Between Cultures.” Collisions of Cultures: Frictions and Re-Shapings. Hrsg. von Tope, Lily Rose; Wolfgang Zach. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. (forthcoming)
  • Anastasijevic, Silvia; Magdalena Pfalzgraf; Hanna Teichler. “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. 
  • Moving Centers & Traveling CulturesSpecial Issue of Kairos. A Journal of Critical Symposium 4.1. (2019). Hrsg. von Anastasijevic, Silvia; Magdalena Pfalzgraf; Hanna Teichler.
  • Transcultural Humor.” Keywords in Transcultural English Studies. Department of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, December 2019.

Teaching

  • Narratives of Ethnic and National Identity, Proseminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Winter 2021/22.
  • Revisions, Intertextuality, Adaptations: The Art of Rewriting, Proseminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Summer 2021.
  • Fictions of Empire, Proseminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Winter 2020/21.
  • Are You Joking? Anglophone Stand-Up Comedy from the 19th to the 21st Century, Proseminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Summer 2020.
  • Seriously funny? Transcultural Humor in the English-Speaking World, Proseminar at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Winter 2019/20.

Functions and Activities

  • Treasurer of GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies)
  • Co-Chair of the GRADE Intitative “Transcultural Narratives”
  • Co-Chair of the Postgraduate Forum “Postcolonial Narrations 2018”
  • Co-Organizer of the international symposium “Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South“ at the Department for New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University (January 2016)
  • Former Treasurer of the Calliopean Society e. V.

Selected presentations 

  • “Transcultural Encounters: Remembering the Colonial Past through Comedy.” 5th Annual Memory Studies Association (MSA), University of Warsaw, Poland (Online), 07.07.2021.
  • “Transcultural Comedy and the Migrant Experience.”  17th  Triennial Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS), Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Online), 29.06.2021.
  • “Toward a Theory of Transcultural Humor.” 29th Annual Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS), Université du Quebec à Montréal, Canada, 11.07.2017
  • “Transcultural Humor and the City: Cross-cultural Encounters in Urban Spaces.” 16th Triennial Conference of the EACLALS, University of Oviedo, Spain, 03.04.2017
  • “Inside/Outside the Joke: Forms of Exclusion and Inclusion in Transcultural Humor.” 17th Triennal Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 12.07.2016
  • “Transcultural Narratives in Anglophone Humor: The Case of Stand-Up Comedy.” 28th Annual Conference of the ISHS, Dublin, Ireland, 30.06.2016
  • “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 (GAPS), Augsburg, Germany, 06.05.2016

Professional Memberships

  • GAPS
  • EACLALS
  • ISHS
  • SciMento (Mentee of the mentoring program for female scientists in Hesse, Germany)
  • GRADE (Goethe Graduate Academy) and the working group “Transcultural Narratives” at GRADE

Grants

  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) travel grant to the Université du Quebec à Montréal in Canada, July 2017
  • Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe-Universität travel grant to the University of Oviedo in Spain, April 2017
  • Department of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (NELK) travel grant to Stellenbosch University in South Africa, July 2016