RESEARCH

My research explores how we become who we are—and how the act of recording a life also transforms the self that is being recorded.

I study what I call the transversal subject: the contemporary self that refuses to settle within a single language, medium, or material form.

Rather than treating identity as stable or complete, I am interested in the ways it is continually written, negotiated, and reconfigured through acts of (self-)inscription.

I trace this subject through hybrid and liminal forms—autotheory, autofiction, the lyric essay, and transmedial artistic practices—where the boundaries between genres, disciplines, and identities become porous. My work moves across three interconnected planes: the translingual, between languages; the transmedial, between page, screen, image, and performance; and the transmaterial, between text, body, and the material objects that carry them.

These forms do more than represent experience. They participate in its making. They become sites where migration, marginality, embodiment, and multiple belonging are not simply described but enacted.

Alongside theoretical inquiry, my research includes artistic practice. My own experiments in writing and (self-)inscription function as a form of artistic research, allowing creative practice and critical reflection to inform one another.

DISSERTATION

Transversal Subjects of (Self-)Inscription.

Translingual, Transmedial, and Transmaterial Practices of Contemporary Artistic Writing, Recording, and Performance

Original title: Transverzalni subjekti (samo)beleženja

Doctoral dissertation in progress · Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Belgrade

Research Areas

  • Transversal Subjectivity & (Self-)Inscription

  • Translingual, Transmedial & Transmaterial Practices

  • Autofiction, Autotheory & the Lyric Essay

  • Embodiment & Materiality

  • Feminist Theory & Nomadic Subjectivity

  • Migration, Marginality & Multiple Belonging

  • Post-Yugoslav & Transnational Women's Writing

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Panić, Aleksandra. “Autoteorija – od otelovljenja teorije do društvenog aktivizma” [Autotheory: From the Embodiment of Theory to Social Activism]. Reči 17 (2025): 92–101.  doi.org/10.5937/reci2518092P

Panić, Aleksandra. “Ekološka anksioznost i nekropolitičke dinamike u romanu Vreme Dženi Ofil” [Eco-Anxiety and Necropolitical Dynamics in Jenny Offill’s Weather]. Knjiženstvo: časopis za studije književnosti, roda i kulture 14, no. 14 (2024): 67–81.  doi.org/10.18485/knjiz.2024.14.14.4

Panić, Aleksandra. “Images as Invitations: Fostering Reader Engagement and Collaboration in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children.” AM Journal 35 (2024): 27–36.  doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i28.600

Panić, Aleksandra. “Poezija u doba digitalne (re)produkcije: Digitalna aura u novomedijskoj poeziji” [Poetry in the Age of Digital (Re)production: Digital Aura in New Media Poetry]. Reči 16 (2023): 40–54.  doi.org/10.5937/reci2316040P

Conference Proceedings

Panić, Aleksandra. “Afektivna empatija u fragmentima: Tuga, sećanje i zajedničko ozdravljenje u delu Zovite me Esteban Lejle Kalamujić” [Affective Empathy in Fragments: Grief, Memory, and Shared Healing in Lejla Kalamujić’s Call Me Esteban]. In Jezik, književnost i empatija – zbornik radova, 412–25. 2025.  doi.org/10.46793/LLE25.412P

Panić, Aleksandra. “Višeslojni dijalog u delu Crveni kofer Lane Bastašić kao praksa za društvenu transformaciju” [Multilayered Dialogue in Lana Bastašić’s Crveni kofer as a Practice for Social Transformation]. In Jezik, književnost i dijalog: Zbornik radova sa Trinaeste međunarodne konferencije Fakulteta za strane jezike. 2024.  doi.org/10.46793/LLD24.091P

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

Panić, Aleksandra. “Posthuman Poetics in Creative Writing Practice: Authorship and Collaboration in the Age of Large Language Models”. Paper presented at the International Conference Language, Literature and Artificial Intelligence, Alfa BK University, Belgrade, 2026.

Panić, Aleksandra. “Pedagogy and the Joy of Resistance: Rethinking Affect and Collective Action in Serbia’s Students’ Protests.” Paper presented at the Deleuze and Guattari Conference and Camp, Stockholm, June 2025.

Panić, Aleksandra. “Transformative Power of Diary in Shaping a Nomadic Feminist Identity.” Paper presented at the Deleuze and Guattari Conference and Camp, Delft, July 2024.

Panić, Aleksandra. “Corporeal Writing Center and Their Lateral Revolution in Teaching Creative Writing.” Paper presented at the Deleuze and Guattari Conference and Camp, Belgrade, July 2023.

Panić, Aleksandra. “Poezija u doba veštačke inteligencije” [Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence]. Paper presented at the International Conference Language, Literature and Media, Alfa BK University, Belgrade,Alfa BK University, Belgrade, 2023.

Panić, Aleksandra. “Meditativna nostalgija kao medijska strategija: Analiza identiteta modnog brenda Dulsineja Atelier na Instagramu” [Meditative Nostalgia as a Media Strategy: The Brand Identity of Dulsineja Atelier on Instagram]. Paper presented at the International Conference Filozofija medija: Mediji i identiteti, Belgrade, 2023.