PhD Marijan Dović
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Slovenian literary and cultural history, systemic and empirical approach to literature, literary evaluation, literary canon, cultural nationalism, national poets, cultural saints, literature and censorship

Marijan Dović is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the ZRC SAZU Institute of the Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies (Ljubljana). He also lectures at the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana) and School of Humanities (University of Nova Gorica). His books include Sistemske in empirične obravnave literature (Systemic and Empirical Approaches to Literature, 2004); a book on the development of the role of the literary producer, Slovenski pisatelj (The Slovenian Writer, 2007); and a book on Slovenian interwar avant-garde, Mož z bombami (The Man with the Bombs, 2009), Prešeren po Prešernu (Prešeren after Prešeren, 2017), and National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe (with J. K. Helgason, 2017). He co-edited thematic volumes on literature and censorship, publishing, book history, spatial turn in literary studies, and literature and music. His major publications in English address Romanticism, European cultural nationalism, national poets and “cultural saints”, the literary canon, systems theory, the interwar avant-garde in the Balkans, and the theory of authorship. He is the editor-in-chief of the comparative literature journal Primerjalna književnost (2016–) and a co-editor of the book series Studia litteraria (2018–).