Prof.Dr. Nevena Dakovic is a film theorist, professor and distinguished scholar of film and media. She is full professor of Film Theory/Film and Media Studies at the Department of Theory and History, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Univesity of Arts, Belgrade. Also, she is Chair of Interdisciplinary PhD Art and Media Studies at UoA, and Director of the Institute for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television, FDA. Nevena Dakovic has written a number of books, most notably Film Studies: Essays in Film Texts of Memory/Studije filma: Ogledi o filmskim tekstovima sećanja, 2014; Balkan as a film genre: image, text, nation/Balkan kao filmski žanr: slika, tekst, nacija, 2008, and edited important titles among which are Film and Screen Media Studies: Serbia 3.0/ Studije filma i /ekranskih/ medija: Srbija 3.0, 2019; Borders of Memory: Jewish heritage and Holocaust/Graničnici sećanja: jevrejsko nasleđe i Holokaust. 2018, Media Archaeology, 2016; Representation of the Holocaust in the Balkans in Arts and Media, 2015, etc.

As a distinguished researcher, Nevena Daković publishes in national and international frameworks (UK, Turkey, Slovakia, Italy, Austria, France, the USA), participates at conferences and is a respected committee member of international project groups (COST, TEMPUS). She is often invited as guest lecturer at European and American Universities. She is a member of Academia Europaea.  She has been appointed associate editor of ER (European Review, Core Cambridge Journal), a position she will take in January 2021. Her main research themes are cinema, media, nation, representation, the Balkans, the Holocaust, cultural memory.

Her work is current, informed and offers thought provoking insights.

Daković, Nevena (2019) „Belgrade between the Wars: Imperial Shadows on the Screen“

European Review 28(1):1-12, DOI: 10.1017/S1062798719000292

  • Daković, Nevena „Magnificent TV Narrative as Cultural heritage“, in Deniy Bazrakdar and Ozlem Avci-Askoy (eds). Audio Visual heritage Space and Its Protection (It’s Your Story, Don’t Lose it)“, Istanbul: Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, 2018, pp 163-175.
  • Nevena Daković. 2016. HISTORICAL REVISIONISM & MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: TV SERIES RAVNA GORA: END GAME, Media archaeology : memory, media and culture in the digital age = Medijska arheologija : sećanje, mediji i kultura u digitalnom dobu / uredile N.Daković, M. Nikolić, Lj.Rogač Mijatović, Beograd: Fakultet dramskih umetnosti, pp. 23-34, ISBN 978-86-82101-61-1
  • Daković, A. Milovanović. 2015. THE SOCIALIST FAMILY SITCOM: THEATRE AT HOME (SOCIALIST FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA 1972 – REPUBLIC OF SERBIA 2007)in Bonker, K. Obreist J and S, Grump (eds) Television Behind Iron Curtain, Cambridge Scholars Publishing,  pp. 124-147. ISBN (10): 1-4438-9740-X и ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-9740-2.
  • Daković, Nevena. (2008) “City Foxes: East-West Soap”, in: Ambivalent Americanizations: Popular and Consumer Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, (Sebastian M. Herrmann, Katja Koenen, Zoë Kusmierz, Leonard Schmieding) Heidelberg: Unversitatsverlag, pp. 105-121, ISBN 978-3-8253-5488-6

Prof. Derman co-edited two books in cooperation with Prof. Dakovic and Prof. Karen Ross in 1996, and 2001.

ROSS, Karen, DERMAN, Deniz, DAKOVIC, Nevena (2001) Mediated Identities, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi University Press.DERMAN, Deniz, DAKOVIC, Nevena, ROSS, Karen (1996) Gender and Media, Ankara: Med-Campus Publications.