Prof. Krištof Jacek Kozak, Ph. D.
Researh Adviser, Department of Slovenian Studies, Institute for Intercultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska
Office: UP FHŠ, Titov trg 4, 6000 Koper, room 13
Phone: +386 6 663-7744
E-mail: kjkozak@fhs.upr.si
Office hours: after e-mail appointment
Education:
- B.A.: Comparative Literature, Philosophy (University of Ljubljana, 1995);
- M. A.: Comparative Literature (University of Ljubljana, 1998);
- Ph.D.: Comparative Literature (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2003).
Research and Artistic Work:
- Project: Tromeja skozi čas: jezikovna prepletanja na slovensko-avstrijsko-italijanskem stičnem območju (ARRS 2015-2108);
- Dramaturg by the Slovenian staging of D. Jančar’s play The Light Cavalry under the direction of Zvone Šedlbauer (2008);
- Project: Jezikovna prepletanja v istrskem in kraškem prostoru (ARRS, 2004-2007).
Research Interests:
- Philosophy of literature;
- Philosophy of Drama;
- Theory and History of Drama;
- Theory and History of Tragedy;
- Contemporary Drama;
- Postmodern Drama;
- Travel Literature;
- Slovenian Literature between the two World Wars;
- Comparative Literature.
- Scholarship of the Slovenian Research Foundation (Ljubljana, 1995-1997);
- Janineum Institute Research Scholarship (Vienna, Austria, January – February 1997);
- F. S. Chia Scholarship (University of Alberta, Canada 1997-2001);
- Dissertation Fellowship (University of Alberta, Canada 2001-2002);
- Joseph Kuchar Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Canada 2003-2006);
- Akademia Techniczno Humanistyczna, Bielsko-Biała, Poland (2009-2011);
- Institute for Slavic Studies, Vienna University, Austria (2013/14, 2014/15).
- Associate Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (September 2003 – January 2005);
- Secretary of the Programme Council of the Forum of Slavic Cultures (January-September 2006);
- Associate Dean for International Co-operation and Development UP FHŠ (February 2006 – April 2012);
- Chair of the Dept. of Slovenian Studies UP FHŠ (October 2008 – October 2012);
- Member of the Council of the Slovenian Theatre Institute (2009-2014);
- Member of the Editorial Board of the intercultural literature book series Pont Annales (Koper, 2012-);
- Member of the Committee for Performing Arts at the Ministry of Culture of the Rep. of Slovenia (since 2014).
Awards:
- Decoration Chevalier de l’Ordre national des palmes académiques by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of France (2011);
- Faculty-level Prešeren Award for B. A. at the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory (1995).
- Contemporary Tragedy : the Tragic Subject in B.-M. Koltès, S. Pollock and D. Greig, (Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 130). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015;
- Tragedy as the ethical pointer of the contemporary world. V: Henriques, Bruno M., Camões, José, Almeida, Maria João (ur.). Théâtre : esthétique et pouvoir. Tome 2, XXe et XXIe siècles. Paris: Éditions Le Manuscrit. 2016, str. 397-416.
- Medkulturnost v luči literarne vede. Slavica litteraria, ISSN 1212-1509, 2016, ročník 19, číslo 1, str. 7-16.
- The Re-Appearance of Tragedy in Contemporary Drama. V: JOCHMANOVÁ, Andrea (ur.). Current issues in performance analysis : proceedings of the International Theatrological Conference (Theatre Faculty of Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts Brno, 21-22 November 2014) : in memoriam prof. Ph.D.r. Bořivoj Srba, DrSc.. 1st ed. Brno: The Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. 2017, str. 51-59.
- Rozwój współczesnego systemu organizacji teatrów w Słowenii. V: PRYKOWSKA-MICHALAK, Karolina (ur.). System organizacji teatrów w Europie. Warszawa: Instytut Teatralny im. Zbigniewa Raszewskiego. 2016, str. 251-261.
- Zofia, czyli mądrość : Simona Semenič i współczesna dramaturgia słoweńska. Dialog, feb. 2016, 61/2 (711), str. 217-225;
- O utopiji in sreči ali zakaj ju človek (še) vedno išče?. V: Pagon, Neda (ur.), Pagon, Saša (ur.), Borak, Neven. Utopije – še vedno : zbornik o utopijah v 21. stoletju. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2015, str. 163-179, 510;
- Tragedija kot pozicijski vektor novega sveta. Dialogi 2014, 50/1-2, 96-107;
- “Avangardistički divlji lovac” : dvojnik avangardnog pjesnika. V: Kovač, Zvonko, Kozak, Krištof Jacek, Pregelj, Barbara (ur.). Obzorja jezika – obnebja jezika : poezija Tomaža Šalamuna. Zagreb: FF Press, 2014, 65-77;
- Orientalističeskij vzgljad na Rossiju v slovenskoj putevoj literature. V: Lipatov, Aleksandr Vladimirovič (ur.), Sozina, Julija Anatol´evna (ur.). Rossija i russkij čelovek v vosprijatii slavjanskih narodov. Moskva: Centr knigi Rudomino, 2014, 192-217;
- “Tekučaja sovremennost´” slovenskoj dramaturgii : raspad mira po merke čeloveka. Vestnik Evropy, 2013, tom 37, 204-215;
- Prítažlivá osudovost : subjekt a tragédia, (Edícia Svetové divadlo). 1. vyd. Bratislava: Divadelný ústav, 2012;
- With Pregelj, Barbara. The reception of Federico García Lorca in Slovenia. IberoSlavica, 2011, 92-100;
- “Pod egido ruskega orla” ali orientalistični izleti A. Aškerca. Primerjalna književnost 2011, 34/3, 153-172;
- Politika književnosti i međukulturalnost. Sarajevske sveske 2011, 32/33, 151-162;
- Privlačna fatalnost : subjekt i tragedija, (Biblioteka Književne nauke, umetnost i kultura, Kolekcija Znak). Beograd: Službeni glasnik, 2010;
- Contemporary Slovenian drama between postmodernism and neo-realism. V: Bayerdörfer, Hans-Peter (ur.). Vom Drama zum Theatertext? : Zur Situation der Dramatik in Ländern Mitteleuropas, (Theatron, Zv. 52). Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 2007, 103-108;
- Nine circles of hell or the freeing of comedy. Maske und Kothurn, ISSN 0025-4606, 2005, jg. 51, h. 4, str. 41-50;
- Privlačna usodnost : subjekt in tragedija, (Knjižnica Mestnega gledališča ljubljanskega, zv. 139). Ljubljana: Mestno gledališče ljubljansko, 2004;
- O tragičnem danes – iz perspektive subjekta in situacije. Primerjalna književnost, dec. 2003 26/2, 101-121.
MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES
Ecoculture: Studies of Animals and Nature in Folklore, Literature and Culture
Assoc. Prof. Marjetka Golež Kaučič, Ph.D.,
ECTS: 6
Folk and Literary: Folklore and Intertextual Aspects
Assoc. Prof. Marjetka Golež Kaučič, Ph.D.,
ECTS: 6
The Language of Objects: Topics in Slovenian Material Culture
Prof. Maja Godina Golija, Ph.D.,
ECTS: 6
The Role of Woman in Slovenian Society and Culture
Assoc. Prof. Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Ph.D.,
ECTS: 6