Natasa MuratovaDoctoral Student

About me

I am a doctoral candidate at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch, and German at Stockholm University. I hold a BA in German Philology from the University of Innsbruck (2014) and an MA in German Literary Studies from Stockholm University (2017). My research focuses on humour theory and German-language literature after the millennium, with a particular interest in postirony.

I have contributed to the volume Truth Claims Across Media (2024) with a co-authored article alongside Anna Obererlacher from the University of Innsbruck. Additionally, I co-organized a doctoral student conference at my department in 2019 together with my colleague Irene Elmerot.

Currently, I serve as a board member of the association Germanistische Literaturwissenschaft in Schweden (GLS) and am part of a GLS editorial team working on a popular science book about humor in German-language literature. In my spare time, I volunteer at a language café in my hometown.
 

 

Doctoral candidate in German Literary Studies

Member of the 4th cycle of the European PhDnet in Literary and Cultural Studies,
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Germany)

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Room: E520

E-Mail: natasa.vukelic@tyska.su.se

Address: Frescati, Södra huset, hus E, plan 5

Languages: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, German, English, Swedish

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Dissertation project
 

Title

Widersinn als Widerstand? Zur postironischen Politik der deutschsprachigen Literatur
(Nonsense as Resistance? On Postironic Politics of German-language Literature)

 

Abstract

In my dissertation I examined the extent to which the postironic writing style of the texts So ist das by Stephan Groetzner (2013), Verbannt! by Ann Cotten (2016) and Bot - Gespräch ohne Autor by Clemens J. Setz (2018) can be read as an irritation in the context of literary debates on German-language pop literature after the millennium, which reveal the desire for a literary paradigm shift towards sincerity. The thesis underlying this dissertation is that the texts So ist das, Verbannt!, and Bot are characterized by nonsense as a literary device that makes it possible to destabilize meaning and thus undermine the literary conventions evident in the debates: the central position of the novel, realism and the role of authors as creators of meaning. Nevertheless, the texts play with the idea of a paradigm shift with the help of the postironic practice of drawing attention to the hopelessness of irony and confronting contingency with openness. They draw on the guiding differences of pop literature—ironic/sincere and artificial/authentic—but present the distinction between the differences as superfluous or irresolvable. By destabilizing meaning and assigning the responsibility of making sense to the reader, the texts not only thematize the late modern relationship between literature and society, truth and reality, and offer the opportunity to experiment with new world views; they also become humorous, cultural narratives that contribute to the construction of values within the literary field.

 

List of publications

 

Muratova, N., Obererlacher, A. (2024). Clemens J. Setz on Bursting the Reader’s Reality Bubble. In: Schirrmacher, B., Mousavi, N. (eds) Truth Claims Across Media. Palgrave Studies in Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42064-1_8

Muratova, N. (2025). The Past is Present in Bo Burnham's Inside. In: de Muijnck, D. (Ed.), Troubling Time(s): Questioning Prevailing Notions of Time in the Study of Literature and Culture, Giessen Contributions to the Study of Culture. WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier.
 

Master of Arts - Thesis in German Literary Studies
Stockholm University, 2017
Die Kunst der Kürze - Zu den Auswirkungen der Sprachknappheit auf die narrativen Elemente „Zeit“ und „Raum“ in Stephan Groetzners So ist das

Bachelor of Arts - Thesis in German philology
University of Innsbruck & Gothenburg University, 2014
1) Marktschreier sind sie doch alle (irgendwie): Autorinszenierungen zeitgenössischer Schriftsteller. Am Beispiel von Walter Moers, Daniel Glattauer, Wolf Haas und Olga Grjasnowa AND
2) Literatur als Text und Bild – Zur Geschichte, Kritik und Analyse von Graphic Novels

 

Teaching

Översättningsövningar (Tyska I)

Processkrivning (Tyska I)

Språklig textkommentar (Tyska I)

Nybörjarkurs I (Tyska I)

 

Research

Humor theory, Postirony, German-language literarature after the millenium