Tijana Matijević

Dr. Tijana Matijević is a researcher at the Seminar for Slavic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy II, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She holds a doctorate in Slavic Studies (2018) and an MA in Eastern European Research (MIREES, 2009) from the University of Bologna.

• PhD, Slavic Studies (2018), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• MIREES MA (2009), University of Bologna
• Studies at Saint Petersburg State University (2008–2009)
• Diploma in Serbian Linguistics & World Literature (2005), University of Belgrade

Her research focuses on post-Yugoslav literary and cultural fields, with emphasis on (post-)Yugoslav feminism, female artistic practice, historical avant-garde, and the literary/artistic left. She examines narrative reconstruction, interculturalism, and gender politics in post-Yugoslav time/space.

Articles span feminist interpretations of post-Yugoslav literature, avant-garde influence, gender and space in literary criticism, and memory studies. Key journals include Wagadu, Antropologija, and Disrupting Historicity, Reclaiming the Future. Her 2020 monograph From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent theorizes feminist literary utopias.

She manages the DAAD-funded project Young Authors for Future, fostering academic dialogue with Western Balkans countries. Her work appears in literary criticism, radio programs, and journals like Danas and Radnička komuna – links.