Amila Becirbegovic received her Ph.D. in German Literature and Critical Theory from
the University of California at Davis, where she was awarded the Humanities Research
Institute Grant for her work on Bosnian and Turkish refugees in Germany, as well as
the Provost Fellowship for her work on contemporary Holocaust memory. Originally from
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Becirbegovic lived in Hannover, Germany, before moving
to the United States. She has taught Genocide Education and German language, literature
and film courses to secondary and post-secondary students in the U.S. for over 15
years. Dr. Becirbegovic is interested in 20th century visual culture, with a specific
focus on atrocity and genocide representations and cultural (re)memory. As part of
her research, she is analyzing how pedagogical approaches and representations of the
Holocaust and Germany’s postwar memorialization influence and inform new generations,
contemporary conflicts and refugee politics.
- Genocide Education and Representation
- Contemporary German-language literature and visual culture
- Memory and trauma theory
- Representations of war
- Film/literature about the Holocaust
- Transnational memory discourses
- German-language literature and film from Eastern Europe
- German-Bosnian relations and representations
BOOK CHAPTER
- “Photographic (Re)Memory: The Holocaust and Post-WWII Memory in Yugoslavia”. In Entangled German-Balkan Histories in the Twentieth Century. The University of Pittsburgh Press, October 2020.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- “Transferential Memory Spaces in Gisela Heidenreich’s Das endlose Jahr.” Humanities. 2018.7, no.1:26.
- “Photographic Facticity: Bosnian Atrocity Frames through the Lens of Holocaust Formats”.
Conference Proceedings Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) 40th Anniversary Nationalities Papers. 2012. New York City, NY: Columbia University (online)
- “Approaching Punishment: An Analysis of Abjection in Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse”. Image of the Outlaw, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. 2011. Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University, 305-310
BOOK REVIEWS
- Becirbegovic, Amila. Review of Visualizing Jewish Narrative: Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels: New York: Bloomsberry Academy, 2016. 294 pp. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, November 2020, Vol. 56 Issue 3-4, p 394-396
- Becirbegovic, Amila. Review of “A Man's A Man at the Uranium Madhouse, Los Angeles:
Director Andrew Utter in Conversation with Amila Becirbegovic (UC, Davis) Communications from the International Brecht Society”. 2012, Vol. 41, p123
