Viktorija Bilić

  • Associate Professor, German
  • Associate Professor, Translation & Interpreting

Education

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

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title
GERMAN 101-202 First-Semester German
TRNSLTN 726-001 Computer-Assisted Translation
TRNSLTN 726-202 Computer-Assisted Translation
TRNSLTN 730-101 Internship in Translation/Interpreting
TRNSLTN 730-205 Internship in Translation/Interpreting

Courses Taught

  • 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
  • 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

Research Interests

  • German-American Studies
  • Historical Translation
  • Holocaust Literature

Selected Publications

Bilić, Viktorija. "Mathilde Franziska Anneke: A Diasporic Life in Translation." Baer, Brian and Nike Pokorn (eds.). Translation and Diaspora: The role of émigrée communities in the USA. Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies. New York: Routledge, 2026, 229-250.
Kamphoefner, Walter. Deutsche in Amerika - ein historischer Überblick. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Viktorija Bilić [Germans in America - A Concise History, translated from the English by Viktorija Bilić]. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025.
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 Clark Efford. Radikale Beziehungen: Die Briefkorrespondenz der Mathilde Franziska Anneke zur Zeit des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023.
Bilic, Viktorija. “Deutschamerikanische Zeitungskorpora (1845–1860): Eine Kollokationsstudie.” Lebende Sprachen 67.2, 2022, 311-341.
Bilic, Viktorija, and Alison Clark Efford. Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 2021.
Bilic, Viktorija. “The Online Computer-Assisted Translation Classroom.” Translation & Interpreting - The International Journal for Translation and Interpreting Research Vol. 12. No. 1, 2020, 127-141.
Bilic, Viktorija. “German-Language Media.” The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. Amanda Seligman and Margo Anderson (eds.), 2018.
Bilic, Viktorija. Historische amerikanische und deutsche Briefsammlungen: Alltagstexte als Gegenstand des Kooperativen Übersetzens Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 2014.