Team > Marija Krstic

Faculty of Languages and Literature
Fachgruppe Anglistik

Akademic CV 

• April 2019 - : Lecturer, American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Bayreuth
•  June 2016 - Januar 2017: Research Assistant, American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Bayreuth

• Education

• 2018 M.A., University of Bayreuth, Germany (Intercultural Anglophone Studies)
• 2013 M.A., University of Kragujevac, Serbia (English Language and Literature)
• 2011 B.A, University of Kragujevac, Serbia (English Language and Literature)

• Research Interest

• Doctoral Project: “Oil Extraction Culture in the American Novel - Reading Petrofiction as Risk Fiction”
• Petroculture, Petrofiction
• African American Literature and Culture
• American Theatre and Drama

• Teaching

• Modernism in American Drama – Eugene O’Neill’s Plays (PS)
• "I don't want realism. I want magic!" - Tennessee Williams's Plastic Theatre (PS)
• The Lost Generation: American Expatriate Writing (PS)
• Modern American Drama - Arthur Miller's Plays (PS)
• Petrofiction - Oil in the American Novel (PS)
• Speculative Fiction: US American Climate Change Novels and Peak Oil Novels (PS)
• Contemporary American Theatre - The Plays of Wendy Wasserstein (PS)
• Introduction to the American Literary and Cultural Studies (Ü)
• Exploring the Canadian Literary Imagination - Margaret Atwood's Fiction (PS)
• "Chronicler of the black experience" - Reading Toni Morrison (PS)
• Canadian Short Story - Contemporary Women's Writing (PS)
• American Postwar Literature: Writers of the Beat Generation (PS)
• Postmodernism and the Contemporary Canadian Novel: Atwood and Ondaatje (PS)
• Narratives of Passing (PS)
• Contemporary Canadian Literature: Alice Munro's Short Stories (PS)
• American Short Story (PS)
• Literature, Culture, and the Meanings of Oil - Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit and Helon Habila's Oil on Water ​(PS)
• Re-writing the Slave Experience: Slave Narrative and Neo-Slave Narrative (PS)
  
• (Beyond) Realism: Eugene O'Neill's Modernist Plays (PS) 

Faculty of Languages and Literature
Fachgruppe Anglistik

Research Interests

​Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, Energy Humanities, Petrofiction, Risk Studies 

Workshops and Summer Schools 

"Oil Extraction Culture and Displacement in Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit" - Virtual Workshop: (Narrating) Environmental Displacement, University of Augsburg, Oct 6-8, 2021 International Online Symposium, "Challenges of Modernity: Climate, Changes,Global  Perspectives," University of Würzburg, August 2-13, 2021

"Oil Extraction Culture and the American Novel: Reading Petrofiction as Risk Fiction" - International Workshop, "Archives of the Planetary Mine: Culture, Nature Extraction, and Energy Across the Americas," Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies (NILAS), University of Stockholm, November 14-15, 2022 

"Oil Extraction Culture in Selected American Novels: Reading Oil Spill and Peak Oil in MeiMei Evans's Oil and Water and Kurt Cobb's Prelude." International Conference of Austrian Association for American Studies, "Versions of America: Speculative Pasts, Presents, Futures," University of Klagenfurt, October 20-22, 2023

"Reading Risky Waterscapes in MeiMei Evans's Oil and Water: Oil Spill, Risk, and Petrotoxicity" - Bamberg-Bayreuth-Würzburg Kolloquium, Februar 20, 2024

"Risk, Oil, and Narrative: Reading Petrofiction as Risk Fiction" - Study Group "Learning about Risk and Crisis": Communicating Risk: Discourse, Language, Visualisations"  Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, November 11-13, 2024

Faculty of Languages and Literature
Fachgruppe Anglistik

Publications

Faculty of Languages and Literature
Fachgruppe Anglistik

Marija Krstic
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
Gebäude: GW I Raum: 1.27
95447 Bayreuth

Office Hours during the winter term:

Wednesdays, 1 - 2 pm. 

Please contact me in advance via email marija.krstic@uni-bayreuth.de to make the appointment. 

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-3583
E-mail: marija.krstic@uni-bayreuth.de