Danijel Katic

Danijel Katic

Department of English and American Studies
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)

Universitätsstraße 40
91054 Erlangen

Office hours

by appointment via e-mail

Research Interests

  • Yugoslav partisan culture
  • Popular culture
  • European film history (esp. Poland/Ex-Yugoslavia)

Research Projects

Yugoslavian partisans – between popular culture and discursive norm negotiation [doctoral thesis]

Education & Employment

  • Since 2023: Doctoral student at the Research Training Group Literature and Public Spheres in Different Contemporary Cultures / doctoral thesis on the transformation of the Yugoslav partisan cult in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav culture after 1945
  • 2019: Master’s thesis: Political and social reflection in Polish film 1960-1981
  • 2017-2019: Student assistant at the Institute for Theater and Media Studies, media center
  • 2013-2019: B.A./M.A. Theater and Media Studies (Visuality and Image Cultures), FAU-Erlangen-Nürnberg

Publications

Authored Books
  • Katic, Danijel. 2019. Political and Social Reflection in Polish Film 1960-1981. Munich/Ravensburg: Grin Verlag. [german language]
Book Contributions
  • Katic, Danijel. [in progress]. “Cultures of resistance” in literature and the public sphere. An interdisciplinary handbook edited by Antje Kley, Dirk Niefanger, Antonia Villinger. Stuttgart: Metzler/Springer Nature. [german language]

Workshops, Lectures, and Papers (excerpt)

  • Lecture on Fear of the other – horror films and racism as part of the Würzburg Week Against Racism, Jugendkulturhaus Cairo, April 28, 2022
  • Online talk on Diversity, inclusion and gender in digital and analogue games, district youth council in Lower Franconia, April 13th, 202
  • Participation in the 5th Vienna Southern Slavic Studies Colloquium 2023, University of Vienna, October 19-20, 2023
  • Lecture on Turning red into black – The Yugoslav black wave in literature and film, symposium on literary sociological and cultural studies perspectives on literary groups after 1945, Sulzbach-Rosenberg literature archive/Literaturhaus Oberpfalz, March 14-15, 2024

Practical experiences (excerpt)

  • 03/2023-06/2023 Advisor for Media and Inclusion, District Youth Council of Lower Franconia, Würzburg
  • 08/2020-12/2022: Librarianship, Würzburg City Library

Teaching

  • Summer 2024 / Medial representation of the yugoslavian partisan, graduate school for theater and media studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Memberships

  • Member of the Association for Media Studies (GfM)