Merima Omeragić’s research investigates women’s intellectual agency at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and cultural media, with a particular focus on South Slavic and comparative contexts. By examining literary texts, film, visual art, and philosophical discourse, she explores how women’s voices have been articulated, mediated, and constrained within twentieth-century European intellectual and cultural history. A central strand of her work addresses the emancipation processes of Bosnian Muslim women, situating their cultural and intellectual production within broader Slavic, European, and transnational frameworks. Through close readings of narrative forms, aesthetic strategies, and philosophical motifs, she examines how women engaged with questions of subjectivity, ethics, nation, and modernity, often from marginal or excluded positions. Her research highlights how cultural media functioned as alternative spaces of philosophical expression, enabling women to negotiate authority, visibility, and authorship. In continuity with this focus, she works on under-researched and marginalized fields, including the post-Yugoslav cultural heritage of Roma women, Jewish women writers from the region, and LGBTIQ literature. These case studies foreground diverse modes of communication—literary, visual, and performative—through which women articulated philosophical reflection outside canonical philosophical formats. Methodologically, her work draws on feminist philosophy, postcolonial feminist criticism, gender theory, ethnic and nation studies, and transdisciplinary comparative approaches. She is particularly interested in how women’s philosophical thought emerges through narrative, and ethics (in the intersection with aesthetic category), thereby challenging restrictive definitions of philosophical authorship. Her current philosophical research includes the co-authorship of a forthcoming book with philosopher Rada Iveković (2026–2027), which further develops questions of authorship, collaboration, and intellectual responsibility, history of philosophy, ethics, arts and post-Yugoslav space. She received scientific awards and fellowships, and published peer-reviewed articles in journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus and has presented her research at major European and regional conferences dedicated to women’s history.

Personal website/professional website:

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YEJHupoAAAAJ&hl=en
• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6887-536X
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merima-Omeragic-2

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