Assist. Prof. Luka Vidmar, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, ZRC SAZU, Assistant Professor of Literary Studies
01 47 06 299
luka.vidmar@zrc-sazu.si
Education
• BAs in art history and comparative literature, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (2002)
• MA in art of the early modern period, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (2005)
• Ph.D. in literary studies, University of Nova Gorica (2009)
Teaching
• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (2024−)
• University of Klagenfurt, Slavic Department (2012/2013)
• University of Nova Gorica, Faculty of Humanities (2006/2007)
Research stays
• The Ohio State University, Center for Slavic and East European Studies (2014)
• University of Vienna, Department of East European History (2025)
Service
• Chair of the Slovenian section of the Slovenian Research Initiative, in partnership with The Ohio State University, Center for Slavic and East European Studies (2014−)
• Founding member of the Executive Board (2008−) and Secretary (2013−) of the Slovenian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
- A Slavic Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Jernej Kopitar and Baron Žiga Zois. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2016.
- (W. Metoda Kemperl:) Barok na Slovenskem: sakralni prostori. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 2014.
- Ljubljana kot novi Rim: Akademija operozov in baročna Italija. Ljubljana: SAZU, 2013.
- Zoisova literarna republika: vloga pisma v narodnih prerodih Slovencev in Slovanov. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2010.
- Ed.: Trubar, Hren, Valvasor, Dolničar: O slovstvu na Kranjskem: Elektronska znanstvenokritična izdaja. Edn 1.0. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2013.
- Kopitar, Jernej. In: Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. Ed. Joep Leerssen. Amsterdam: Huizinga Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2017. N. pag.
- Zois, Sigismund. In: Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška: von den Anfängen bis 1942. Band 3. Ed. Katja Sturm-Schnabl and Bojan-Ilija Schnabl. Vienna: Böhlau, 2016. 1542–43.
- Franc Wützenstein: prvi romanopisec na Kranjskem. Jezik in slovstvo 61.3–4 (2016): 59–69.
- Tři fáze vztahů mezi Jernejem Kopitarjem v Čechy. Slavica litteraria 17.2 (2014): 25–37.
- Požiga protestantskih knjig v Ljubljani leta 1600 in 1601: med zgodovino in mitom. Kronika 61.2 (2013): 189–216.
- “Ad usum publicum destinata”: O javnem značaju Semeniške knjižnice v Ljubljani. Zgodovinski časopis 62.1–2 (2008): 187–202.

MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES
Life writing: autobiography, biography, memoirs, diaries, and letters
Asst. Prof. Alenka Koron, Ph.D.,
ECTS: 6
Slovenian Baroque literature during the Reformation and the Enlightenment
Assist. Prof. Matija Ogrin, Ph.D,
Asst. Prof. Monika Deželak Trojar, Ph. D. ,
ECTS: 6
Textology and digital humanities
Assist. Prof. Matija Ogrin, Ph.D,
Asst. Prof. Andrejka Žejn, Ph. D. ,
ECTS: 6

