Dr Ana Kolarić; Visiting Fellowship 2022/23
Biography
Since 2010 I have worked at the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. I teach courses at the level of undergraduate, master and doctoral studies. My research interests include Anglo-American modernism, history of literary criticism, intellectual history, feminist theory and criticism, periodical studies, as well as critical and feminist pedagogy.
I wrote two monographs: 1) Rod, modernost i emancipacija. Uredničke politike u časopisima Žena (1911–1914) i The Freewoman (1911–1912) (Beograd: Fabrika knjiga, 2017) and 2) Periodika u feminističkoj učionici. Časopis Ženski pokret (1920–1938) i studije književnosti (Beograd: Fabrika knjiga, 2021). The first one is focused on examining the notions of gender, modernity and emancipation in two politically and culturally different contexts, taking as examples the journals Žena / The Woman (1911–1914) and The Freewoman (1911–1912). The second monograph links feminist theory and criticism, literary studies and periodical studies while analysing the journal Ženski pokret / The Women’s Movement (1920-1938).
Currently, I am exploring the concepts of national/transnational literature as well as “border writing”, focusing on writers who developed their careers on both sides of national borders (e.g. in Serbia and Hungary).
Motivation
I have already cooperated with several researchers who work at the Institute of Contemporary History. The cooperation has been initiated through application for a bilateral project in May 2022 (results of the CfA are expected by May 2023). Members of the proposed bilateral project plan to focus on the analysis of the relationship between gender (as culturally and socially constructed characteristics of sex) and intellectual history in Serbian and Slovenian 20th-century periodical press.
Furthermore, I participated in the workshop on Intellectual History at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena in July 2022 (among organizers was Isidora Grubački, INZ research assistant) and, with colleagues from University of Tübingen, co-organized the workshop “Lessons on Resilience from Literary Studies and Intellectual History: Feminist Pedagogies for a Post-Pandemic Future“ at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in March 2023 (in which several INZ researchers particpated). As a group, we are interested in applying for the COST Action that would bring together scholars who explore intellectual history from various perspectives and disciplines.
I hope to use the Visiting Fellowship Program to meet with and talk to some of the Institute’s researchers whom I already met, as well as with others interested in intellectual history. During these meetings, we plan to work on the concrete application for the COST Action and discuss potential partner institutions, as well as to explore possibilities for further institutional cooperation through future joint projects (like Horizon).
SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Ana Kolarić, Periodika u feminističkoj učionici. Časopis Ženski pokret (1920–1938) i studije književnosti (Beograd: Fabrika knjiga, 2021).
- Ana Kolarić, Rod, modernost i emancipacija. Uredničke politike u časopisima Žena (1911–1914) i The Freewoman (1911–1912) (Beograd: Fabrika knjiga, 2017).
- Ana Kolarić, Katarzyna Taczyńska, “Pedagogy of Care: Building a Teaching and Learning Community”, Slavia Meridionalis, vol. 22 (2022).
- Аna Kolarić, “Beyond the National: Notes on the International Women’s Movement(s) in Žena (‘The Woman’)”, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, vol. 4, issue 2 (2020), article no. 26.
- Ana Kolarić, “Gender Identities in Women’s and Feminist Periodicals in Serbia”, Aspasia, The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, vol. 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 175–181.
- Ana Kolarić, “Gender, Nation, and Education in the Women’s Magazine Žena (The Woman) (1911–1914)”, Espacio, Tiempo y Educación, vol. 4, no. 1 (January–June 2017).
Duration: April 27 - May 19
