PI-Invest Formacio Atraccio Talent
Anesa Muslimovic Ortega holds a B.A. in English Studies (2022) and an M.A. in Creative and Humanistic Translation (2023) at the Universitat de València, where she received the End-of-Degree Extraordinary Award for both disciplines. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Language, Literatures, Cultures, and its Applications Doctoral program, with a thesis supervised by Professor Dr. Anna M. Brígido-Corachán.
Since December 2024, she has been working in the Department of English and German after being awarded a grant for the training of pre-doctoral research staff (Invest Formació Atracció de Talent — UV).
Additionally, she is a member of the LENA research group (North American Ethnic Minority Literature in a Global Context), where her research focuses on trauma, identity fragmentation, and reconstruction in the literary works of the Bosnian-American diaspora. Specifically, she investigates the experiences of the first generation of exiled Bosnian Muslims who relocated to the US due to the Bosnia War (1992-1995). Her research interests also include the literary representation of queer identities, Gender Studies, and translation, particularly focusing on the translation of sapphic identities in contexts of censorship.