Jelena Arsenijević Mitrić (Kragujevac, Serbia, 1983) graduated Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade. She obtained her PhD from the Faculty of Philology and Arts of the University of Kragujevac, where she holds the position of Assistant professor for Theoretical Literary Discipline and Comparative Literature. Her scholarly papers, published in academic journals and conference proceedings in Serbia and abroad, are based on modern methodological assumptions (postcolonial theory and criticism, cultural theory). She hosted thematic issues of the scientific journal “Koraci”: on Sreten Božić / B. Wongar (2010), Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht (2011-2012), as well as thematic issues of the scientific journal “Lipar”: Književnost i aktivizam [Literature and Activism] (2012) and Latinska Amerika: književnost, kultura, politika [Latin America: Literature, Culture, Politics] (2016). As a researcher she has taken part in the following projects: Antropologija istine – dva života i veliko delo B. Vongara [The Anthropology of Truth – B. Wongar’s Two Lives and Great Work], supported by the Centre for Scientific Research of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) and of the University of Kragujevac, and by the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac (2009); Usmeno, obredno, književno [Oral, Ritual, Literary] (phase I: Canis lupus između obredne maske i književne životinje [Canis Lupus Between a Ceremonial Mask and Literary Animal]), supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia and by the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac (2015); Project 178018 Društvene krize i savremena srpska književnost i kultura: nacionalni, regionalni, 19 evropski i globalni okvir [Social Crisis and Contemporary Serbian Literature and Culture: National, Regional, European and Global Framework], funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (2011-2017); Project Yugoslav Wars: another face of European civilisation? Lessons learnt and endurnig challenges Co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union (2016-2018). She is a member of Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA), Survival International, the movement for tribal peoples, European Network for Comparative Literary Studies. She is the author of the monography TERRA AMATA VS. TERRA NULLIUS: Дискурс о (пост)колонијализму у делима Б. Вонгара и Ж. М. Г. ле Клезиоа [TERRA AMATA VS. TERRA NULLIUS: the Discourse of (Post)colonialism in the Works of B. Wongar and J.-M. G. Le Clezio] (2016), as well as the co-author of the book Autoportreti [Self-portraits] (2006), of the collection of poems Ljudi od zemlje [Earth People] (2004) and managing editor of the scientific journal “Lipar” (University of Kragujevac).
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