| Title | Stuck on Slavica |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Yugoslav Partisan Film and its Multiple Stickinesses |
| Contributor | Olja Alvir(author) |
| Landing page | https://meson.press/books/sticky-films/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Olja Alvir |
| Publisher | meson press |
| Published on | 2026-02-02 |
| Print length | 22 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Olja Alvir is an author and researcher based in Vienna. She studied Comparative Literature in Vienna and Zagreb, and her interdisciplinary work spans literature, film, cultural criticism, and political essays. Her dissertation, Liberation afoot, examines early Yugoslav partisan cinema and its depiction of movement as a symbol of political resistance. Alvir received the Ingeborg Ohnheiser Prize for her master’s thesis and worked and taught at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna, from 2022to 2025. Currently, she is a Junior Fellow at the ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz. Her debut novel Kein Meer (Zaglossus, 2016) was followed by the award-winning poem Pomelo (2021) and international poetry publications, including in The Kenyon Review. Her trilingual poetry collection Spielfeld/Špilfeld/Playground appeared in 2022, and in 2025, Alvir was awarded the Prize for Literature in Exile in the Category of Poetry.