Erma Nezirevic
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Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- Ph.D. : Hispanic Literatures and Cultures , University of Minnesota - Twin Cities , Minneapolis, MN, 2017.
- M.A.: Spanish Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 2011.
- B.A. : Spanish, Boise State University, Boise, ID, 2008.
- B.A. : Social Science, Boise State University, Boise, ID, 2008.
Specialties
- Contemporary Iberian Literature and Culture
- Memory studies
- Comparative Literature
- Critical Genocide Studies
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Courses Taught
- Spanish 3105w: Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
- Spanish 1003: Intermediate Spanish I
- Global Studies 3145: Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism with Prof. Ajay Skaria
- CLA 1005: PES First Year Experience with Leah Milojevic
- Global Studies 1112: "Globalization and Social Justice" with Prof. William Viestenz
- Global Studies 3144: "Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies" with Prof. Wiliiam Viestenz
- Span 3104W: Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literatures
- Spanish 3015: Composition and Conversation
- Spanish 1022: Alternate First Semester Spanish (Hybrid)
- Spanish 201 and 202 (Boise State University)
- Spanish 201-202-203 (University of Oregon)
- Spanish 101-102-103 (University of Oregon)
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Research & Professional Activities
Professional Activities
- CLA Internship Working Group: 2017 - present
- Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference : 2013 - 2017
- Coordinator : Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence Graduate Workshop , 2014 - 2017
- Invited Panelist : War, What is it Good For? Uses and Abuses of World War History. Discussion following Keynote speech by Daniel Levy, “The Past: Between History and Memory.” , 8 May 2015
- Discussion Moderator : Discussion Moderator, Pretty Village Film Premiere. Conversation with film subject and producer, Kemal Pervanic. Minneapolis Film Society , 16 October 2015
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Publications
- Review of Simon, Robert. Blanca Andreu, Galicia, and the New Iberian Mysticism. : Nezirevic, Erma, Hispania , Forthcoming 2020.
- In the Trap of Beatrice: On Florence Conard’s War Memories and Disciplinary Turns: Nezirevic, Erma, José Aguirre Pombo, SAGE Publications , Journal of Memory Studies , Forthcoming 2020.
- Goytisolo’s Witness in Bosnia: Nezirevic, Erma, Paula Alexandra Varanda Ribeiro Guimaraes, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, UMinho, Portugal, Intercultural Poetics: Literary Representations of the Foreign Other, Coleção Hespérides. Literatura, , Forthcoming 2019.
- La lista de Schindler: Nezirevic, Erma, Alejandro Baer, Diccionario histórico de conceptos, expresiones y usos de la memoria colectiva, 2018.
- Serie Holocausto : Nezirevic, Erma, Alejandro Baer , Diccionario histórico de conceptos, expresiones y usos de la memoria colectiva, 2018.
- Pérez-Reverte’s Double Witnessing in Territorio Comanche: Nezirevic, Erma, Romance Notes , 57.1 , 2017.
- A Balkan in Spain: Exploring Hospitality in Bienvenido a Sarajevo, hermano by Boban Minic : Nezirevic, Erma, University of Graz Press , Shifting Perspectives: Europe and the Americas. Eds, 2016.
- Making Genocide 'Family-Friendly': Preservation of Memory in El Salvador : Nezirevic, Erma, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2017. Link
- Minneapolis Film Society Screens Pretty Village: Nezirevic, Erma, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Author. Link
- Srebrenica: What Remains 20 Years Later: Nezirevic, Erma, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Author. Link
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Awards
- SPPT Professional Development Award May 2019
- Global Programs & Strategy Alliance, International Travel Award Summer 2018
- CLA Professional Development Leave Fall 2018
- JWG Dunn Jr. Scholarship for Research on International Peace, Institute for Global Studies, Summer 2016
- Hella Mears Graduate Fellowship, CGES, UMN, Summer 2015
- Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Travel Grant to GUSEGG Summer School “Shifting Perspectives: Europe and the Americas,” University of Graz, Austria , Summer 2015
- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Travel Grant, Summer 2015
- Graduate Research Partnership Program, Summer 2015 [decline
- University of Minnesota Spanish and Portuguese Departmental Travel Grant, Fall 2014
- TASI Summer Fellowship, Center for German and European Studies, Summer 2014
- SPPT Summer Research Fellowship - Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer 2014
- Travel Award. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA), Spring 2013
- University of Minnesota Spanish and Portuguese Departmental Travel Grant, Spring 2013
- University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2009 - 2011
- University of Oregon Beall Recruitment Scholarship , 2009