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Viktorija Bilić

  • Associate Professor, Translation & Interpreting

Education

  • PhD, Translation Studies, Heidelberg University
  • MA, Translation Studies, Heidelberg University

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
GERMAN 101-202 First-Semester German No Meeting Pattern
TRNSLTN 726-001 Computer-Assisted Translation No Meeting Pattern
TRNSLTN 726-202 Computer-Assisted Translation No Meeting Pattern
TRNSLTN 730-101 Internship in Translation/Interpreting No Meeting Pattern
TRNSLTN 730-205 Internship in Translation/Interpreting No Meeting Pattern

Courses Taught

  • TRNSLTN 708 – Introduction to Translation: German to English
  • TRNSLTN 709 – Seminar in Literary & Cultural Translation 
  • TRNSLTN 718 – Advanced Seminar in Translation: German to English
  • TRNSLTN 726 – Computer-Assisted Translation
  • GERMAN 101 – First-Semester German
  • GERMAN 203 – Third-Semester German
  • GERMAN 341 – Undergraduate Seminar in German-American Studies: Germans in Wisconsin & Milwaukee
  • GERMAN 425 – Introduction to German Translation
  • GERMAN 483 – Seminar on German Studies

Research Interests

  • German-American Studies
  • Historical Translation
  • Translation Didactics
  • Cooperative Translation
  • Holocaust Literature

Selected Publications

Bilić, Viktorija. “Louise Aston asserts her free personality against the Berlin press (1846). Louise Aston, My Emancipation, Expulsion, and Defense (translated excerpts).” Franzel, Sean and Michael Swellander (eds.). Cultural Journalism in Germany, 1815-1848: Literature, Politics, and History - A Critical AnthologyStudies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, Vol. 255. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2025, 331-341.
Bilić, Viktorija und Alison Efford. Radikale Beziehungen: Die Briefkorrespondenz der Mathilde Franziska Anneke zur Zeit des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023.
Bilic, Viktorija, and Efford, Alison C. Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 2021.
Bilic, Viktorija. Historische amerikanische und deutsche Briefsammlungen: Alltagstexte als Gegenstand des Kooperativen Übersetzens Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 2014.
Bilic, Viktorija, Connelly, Martha, and Kornelius, Joachim . Wissensrecherche als Kooperatives Handeln Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 2009.

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