Tatjana Petzer is Professor of Slavic Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Graz, which she joined in 2023 after having lived in Germany, Switzerland, Russia, former Yugoslavia, and Slovenia. She holds particular interest in the study of transformational and future aesthetics, ecological culture and environmental design in Eastern Europe. Her recent publications include works on cinematic screenings of post-Yugoslav trauma and therapy, and 1960s Yugoslav documentarism. Her current explorations also focus on the binary relationship between land and sea within the geo-aesthetic analysis of text and image as part of the ongoing project “The Telluric-Maritime Paradigm in South Slavic Spatial Thinking and Representation.” In addition, her previous research on the history of the knowledge of synergy promises to offer further insights within the interdisciplinary and dialogic study of Visual Cultures and Intermediality under special consideration of Slavic and Eastern European influences.
We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Petzer into the “VCI” team and look forward to her contributions to our interdisciplinary doctoral colloquium this fall.