Title: Research Associate
Natasha P. Rakić, born on January 4, 1988, in Kragujevac, completed her undergraduate studies in German Studies at the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac, graduating in June 2010. In September 2013, she defended her master’s thesis entitled The Process of Denazification in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s and 1960s: Changing Consciousness of Guilt and Responsibility after the Eichmann Trial, thus earning the title of Master of Philology. She later pursued her doctoral studies in philology at the same institution. Under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Jelena Arsenijević Mitrić, she defended her doctoral dissertation, The Colonial Conquest of Namibia and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary German Novels. She is currently engaged as a research associate at the Center for Scientific Research at the Faculty of Philology and Arts, participating in a project funded by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development, and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (Contract on the Implementation and Financing of Scientific Research in 2024, No. 451-03-66/2024-03/200198). She has contributed to several research projects, including Social Crises and Contemporary Serbian Literature and Culture: National, Regional, European, and Global Frameworks (178018) under the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development, as well as Brands in Literature, Language, and Culture (FIL-1819) and Ecopoetics and Humane(po)etics, organized by the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac.
Rakić actively participates in academic conferences and symposia, publishing her research in various scientific journals and conference proceedings. Her primary research interests include (Post)colonial literature, (Post)colonial german literature, 20th- and 21st-century German and Austrian literature.
E-mail: natasa.rakic@filum.kg.ac.rs ; natasarakickg@gmail.com .
