Juvan – Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU

Prof. Marko Juvan, Ph. D.

Member of the Academia Europaea and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Principal Research Associate at the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, and Professor of Slovenian Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Ljubljana and Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU

01 470 63 05
marko.juvan@zrc-sazu.si

Education

1993, June 15 – PhD Literary Studies, University of Ljubljana.

1990, January 19 – MA Slovenian Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana.

1985, March 14 – 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

2011–2020 – 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 – Principal Research Associate, 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 Associate, ZRC SAZU.

1996–2001 – Research Associate, 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 professor

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 studies, peripheral/minor literatures, literary geography), European Romanticism, Slovenian literature, East-Central European literatures, modernism and neo-avant-gardes.

(Co-)organization of international conferences

2019 – From May 1968 to November 1989: Transformations of the World, Literature and Theory / Od maja 1968 do novembra 1989: transformacije sveta, literature in teorije (co-organizer), ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana.
2013 – Perspectivizing World Literature, a panel, 128^th 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 20^th 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, 2021), 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), Institute for World Literature at Harvard University (2020), Gour Banga (2020), Bratislava (2023), Nitra (2023).

Leadership of national research projects and programs (funded by Slovenian Research Agency)

Investigations into Literary History, Literary Theory and Methodology. 2009–14, 2015–21, 2022–27.
May ’68 in Literature and Theory: The Last Season of Modernism in France, Slovenia, and the World, 2018–21.
The Space of Slovenian Literary Culture: Literary History and the GIS-Based Spatial Analysis. 2011–14.
The “Slovenian” World Literature: Locating World Literature in a National Literary System. 2010–13.

Coordination of bilateral exchange/research projects

2018–20 – Coordinator of the Slovenian-Serbian Research Project “Slovenian and Serbian Student Movements in 1968: Avant-garde Practices in Theory and Literature”
2010 – Coordinator of the Icelandic – Slovenian Exchange Project “Icelandic and Slovenian Cultural Saints,” EEA Grants, Norway Grants (partner institution: University of Iceland)
2007–08 – Coordinator of the Slovenian-Czech Research Project “Comparative Studies of Czech and Slovenian Literary Fields in Central European Context” (partner institution: Masaryk University, Brno)
2003–05 – Coordinator of Slovenian-Czech Research Project “National Literatures, Central Europe, Europe, and the World” (partner institution: Masaryk University, Brno)
2001–03 – Coordinator of the Slovenian-Czech Research Project “Literary Theory and Comparative Literature” (partner institution: Masaryk University, Brno)

Academic leadership, supervision, administration

Since 2025 – Member of the ICLA Committee on Digital Comparative Literature
2019–25 – Member of the Executive Committee of the ICLA/AILC
Since 2017 – Member of Advisory Board of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University
2013–17 – Member of the Section Committee for Literary and Theatrical Studies, Academia Europaea, London.
2008–14 – Member of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory
2007–11 – Member of the Executive Committee of the REELC/ENCLS
2002–06 – President of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association
1998–2002 – Vice-president of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association

Supervision of junior researchers

Jernej Habjan, 2008–2010
Marijan Dović, 2000–2005

Supervision of doctoral theses

Jernej Kusterle (co-mentor), 2022
Luka Vidmar (co-mentor), 2009
Vita Žerjal-Pavlin, 2007
Barbara Zorman, 2007
Marijan Dović, 2005
Alojzija Zupan Sosič, 2000

Editorial boards

Since 2017 – the journal Arcadia (Berlin in Boston: de Gruyter)
Since 2014 – the book series Thought, society, culture (Frankfurt/Main: P. Lang)
Since 2012 – Literaturna misal (Sofia)
Since 2011 – Context (Skopje), Slavica litteraria (Brno)
Since 2004 –co-editor of the book series Studia litteraria (Ljubljana)
Since 1999 – Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Purdue UP)
1997–2011 – the journal Slavistična revija (Ljubljana)
Since 1997 – the journal Primerjalna književnost (Ljubljana)
1989–96 – journals Literatura, Jezik in slovstvo (Ljubljana)

Awards

2025 – Anton Ocvirk prize for the best monograph in comparative literature
2023 – Associate member of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts
2018 – Anton Ocvirk prize for the best monograph in comparative literature
2014 – “Golden Sign of ZRC SAZU” for outstanding research achievements
2012 – Member of Academia Europaea
1991 – Kidrič prize for young researchers for the book Imaginarij Krsta v slovenski literaturi.

Single-authored books (selection)

Zadnja sezona modernizma in maj ’68: svet, Pariz, Ljubljana (The Last Season of Modernism and May ’68). Ljubljana: Literarno-umetniško društvo Literatura, 2023.
Worlding a Peripheral Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Hibridni žanri: Študije o križancih izkustva, mišljenja in literature (Hybrid Genres: Crossing Literature with Thinking and Experience). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2017.
Prešernovska struktura in svetovni literarni sistem (The Prešernian Structure and the World Literary System). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2012.
Literary Studies in Reconstruction: An Introduction to Literature. Frankfurt a/M. etc.: P. Lang, 2011.
History and Poetics of Intertextuality. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2008.
Literarna veda v rekonstrukciji (Literary Studies in Reconstruction). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2006. (Novi pristopi). – Serbian translation: Nauka o književnosti u rekonstrukciji. Transl. Miljenka Vitezović. Beograd: Službeni glasnik, 2011.
Vezi besedila (Textual Ties). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2000. (Novi pristopi).
Intertekstualnost (Intertextuality). Ljubljana: DZS, 2000. (Literarni leksikon 45).
Domači Parnas v narekovajih: Parodija in slovenska književnost (Domestic Parnassus in Quotation Marks: The Parody and Slovenian Literature). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 1997. (Novi pristopi).

Edited books (selection)

Od intimizma do reizma: spremembe literarnega subjekta (From Intimism to Reism: Transformations of the Literary Subject). Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: ZRC, 2025.
Med majem ’68 in novembrom ’89: transformacije sveta, literature in teorije (From May 1968 to November 1989: Transformations of the World, Literature and Theory). Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: ZRC, 2021.
Prostori slovenske književnosti (Spaces of Slovenian Literature). Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2016.
Svetovne književnosti in obrobja (World Literatures and Peripheries). Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: ZRC, 2012.
Writing Literary History: Selected perspectives from Central Europe. Eds. Darko Dolinar, Marko Juvan. Frankfurt a/M. etc.: P. Lang, 2006.

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters (selection, since 2015)

Irony and sentiment in the literary field: Prešeren’s sonnets and the Slovenian alphabet-censorship war. Neohelicon: acta Comparationis litterarum universarum. 2023, vol. 50. ISSN 0324-4652. DOI: 10.1007/s11059-023-00714-9.
Wordliness, worlds, and worlding of literature. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory. 2022, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 5-22. DOI: 10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.01.
Das Welten einer kleinen Literatur und Asymmetrien des Übersetzens : der slowenische Nationaldichter France Prešeren und sein Weg in die Welt. In: Ponzi, Mauro, and Jeanne E. Glesener (eds.). Weltliteratur und kleine Literaturen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Newmann, 2022. Pp. 95-112.
Censorship and the literary field: Kopitar, Čop, and Krajnska čbelica. Slavica Tergestina. 2021, vol. 26, 1, pp. 244-267, DOI: 10.13137/2283-5482/32516.
Literature, theory and politics of the long ’68: the last season of modernism and peripherality. European review, 2020. doi: 10.1017/S1062798720000848.
The Invisible Other?: Slovene comparative literature and Yugoslav literature. In: Marčetić, Adrijana (ed.), et al. Jugoslovenska književnost: prošlost, sadašnjost i budućnost jednog spornog pojma = Yugoslav Literature: the Past, Present and Future of a Contested Notion. Beograd: Čigoja štampa. 2019, pp. 63-78.
Ein- und Mehrsprachigkeit literarischer Systeme. In: Leben, Andrej and Koron, Alenka (eds.). Literarische Mehrsprachigkeit im österreichischen und slowenischen Kontext, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. 2019, pp. 29-46.
Peripheries and the world system of literature: a Slovenian perspective. In: Dehoux, Amaury (ed.). Centres et périphéries de la littérature mondiale : une pensée connectée de la diversité. Saint-Denis: Connaissances et Savoirs, 2018, pp. 91-118.
The charisma of theory. In: Mihailescu, Calin Andrei and Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki (eds.). Policing literary theory, (Textxet, ISSN 0927-5754, vol. 86). Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi. 2018, pp. 89-110.
Perspectivizing world literature. Literaturna mis”l, ISSN 0324-0495, 2018, vol. 61, issue 1, pp. 3-19.
Literature and the Politics of Denial: Slovenian Novels on »The Erasure«. Claiming the Dispossession: The Politics of Hi/storytelling in Post-imperial Europe. Ed. Vladimir Biti. Leiden: Brill, 2017, pp.194-223.
The aesthetics and politics of belonging: national poets between “Vernacularism” and “Cosmopolitanism”. Arcadia : Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, ISSN 0003-7982, 2017, vol. 52, iss. 1, pp. 10-28.
From political theater in Yugoslav socialism to political performance in global capitalism: the case of Slovenian Mladinsko theater. European review, ISSN 1474-0575, feb. 2016, vol. 24, issue 1, pp. 72-82.
The nation between the epic and the novel: France Prešeren’s The Baptism on the Savica as a compromise “world text”. Canadian review of comparative literature, ISSN 0319-051X, 2015, vol. 42, iss. 4, pp. 382-395.
From spatial turn to GIS-mapping of literary cultures. European review, ISSN 1062-7987, Feb. 2015, vol. 23, issue 1, str. 81-96.
In the background of the ‘alphabet war’: Slovenian-Czech interliterary relations and world literature. Interlitteraria, ISSN 1406-0701, 2015, vol. 20, suppl. 1, pp. 148-158.