Marija Grujić, PhD

Dr. Marija Grujić received her PhD from Central European University in Budapest, where she defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Community and the Popular: Women, Nation and Turbo-Folk in Post-Yugoslav Serbia” in 2010. She earned her MA degree from the Central European University in 2002 with the thesis “Bakhtin’s Theory of Dialogism and its Feminist Reinterpretations” and her BA degree in the General Literature and Theory of Literature from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade in 1999. She has worked at the Institute for Literature and Art in Belgrade as an academic researcher since 2002. As of 2012, she has been a Visiting Professor at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Novi Sad. She pursued an academic stay as a visiting scholar at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 2007. In 2011 she was a Visiting Professor at the Department for Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. She participated in international conferences and expert seminars in France, Germany, UK, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia. She gave academic talks as a guest lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Marija Grujić has published two books, Reading Entertainment and Community Spirit (2012) and Bahtin i feministučka književna analiza / Bakhtin and Feminist Literary Analysis (2007). She published a number of academic articles on the field of cultural studies, media, popular culture, nationhood, gender, literary theory, Balkan and post-Yugoslav studies. She taught courses on popular culture, gender theories, representation and identity.