PhD Marko Juvan
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Literary and cultural theory (intertextuality, genre theory, systems theory, the theory of literary history, spatial literary studies, world literature), Slovene literature, comparative literature

Personal data Born 2 June, 1960 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Education and degrees 1993 – Ph.D. Literary Studies, University of Ljubljana. 1990 – MA Slovenian Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana. 1985 – BA Slovenian and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana. Additional training 1996, June – Postdoctoral stay, University of München. 1989/90 (summer semester) – Postgraduate courses, University of Tübingen. Employment, positions Since 2012 – Head of the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies. Since 2007 – Full Professor of Slovenian Literature, Department of Slovenian Studies, University of Ljubljana. since 2006 – Research Advisor, The Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, ZRC SAZU 2002–07 – Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Slovenian Literature, Department of Slovenian Studies, University of Ljubljana. 2001–06 – Senior Research Fellow, ZRC SAZU. 1996–2001 – Research Fellow, Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Sciences, ZRC SAZU. 1994–2002 – Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Slovenian Literature, Department for Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana. 1986–94 – Teaching Assistant, Department for Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana. Visiting appointments 2009 –Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 2006 –Zagreb University, Croatia. Research interests Literary and cultural theory, comparative literature (intertextuality, literary discourse, cultural identity, literary field, systems theory, world literature, peripheral/minor literatures, literary geography), European Romanticism, Slovenian literature, East-Central European literatures. (Co-)organization of international conferences 2019 – From May 1968 to November 1989: Transformations of the World, Literature and Theory, International Conference, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana 2018 – May '68 at 50, Yugoslavia at 75, international colloquium, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana 2013 – Perspectivizing World Literature, a panel, 128th Convention of the MLA, Boston. 2012 – The Spatial Turn in Literary Studies / Prostorski obrat v literarni vedi, (co-organizer), international colloquium of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, Lipica. 2011 – Cultural Saints of the European Nation States, (co-organizer), a panel, 4th Congress of the REELC/ENCLS, Skopje & Ohrid. 2010 – Knjiga: ekonomija kulturnih prostorov / The book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces (co-organizer), REELC/ENCLS, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana. 2009 – Esej in singularnost / The Essay and Singularity (co-organizer), Ljubljana, Slovenian Comparative Literature Association and ZRC SAZU. 2008 – Responding to Cosmopolitanism: The New Identities of Literary Theory (co-organizer), ICLA Committee on Literary Theory International Colloquium, Ljubljana 2007 – Comparative Literature in the 20th Century (co-organizer), ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana. 2005 – Hybridizing Theory and Literature (co-organizer, with Jelka Kernev Štrajn), Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, Lipica, Slovenia. 2002 – How to Write Literary History Today? (co-organizer, with Darko Dolinar), ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana. 2000 – Puškin/Prešeren (co-organizer), Lomonosov State University, Moscow. 2000 – The Romantic Epic Poem (organizer), University of Ljubljana. 1995 – Bakhtin and the Humanities (co-organizer), University of Ljubljana. Guest lectures at foreign universities München (1996), Budapest (2000), Hamburg (2003), Prague (2005, 2017), Zagreb (2005), Reykjavik (2010), Vienna (2012), Ghent (2014), Novi Sad (2014), České Budějovice (2015), Granada (2016), Luxembourg (2017), Graz (2017). Leadership of national research projects (funded by Slovenian Research Agency) • Investigations into Literary History, Literary Theory and Methodology. 2009 – 2014, 2015–2020.. • The Space of Slovenian Literary Culture: Literary History and the GIS-Based Spat