Milica Trakilovic teaches at Utrecht University’s Department of Media and Culture Studies, in the Graduate Gender Programme. She is the coordinator of the minors Gender Studies and Postcolonial Studies. She has obtained her PhD at The Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University. Her PhD research involved a critical interrogation of the idea of Europe from so-called marginal and marginalized positions, motivated by an understanding of belonging and nationhood in general, and Europe and Europeanness in particular, as a complex set of discursive practices that have material effects.  From 2015 until 2018, she was Research Assistant in the ERC project Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond, based at the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In this ethnographic project, she conducted in-depth interviews with groups and individuals with a migration background, focusing on migration trajectories. She has also researched popular and political discourses that produce the categories of “migrant” and “refugee” in a European context and in The Netherlands. Her research interests focus on postcolonial and postsocialist transitions and issues of European nationhood and belonging, as well as visual culture and feminist art practice.