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

Discourse theory and literature

Assist. Prof. Jernej Habjan, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

European literatures and nationalisms

Assoc. Prof. Marijan Dović, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

History of books and censorship

Assoc. Prof. Marijan Dović, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Literary geography

Prof. Marko Juvan, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Literature and the visual arts

Assist. Prof. Luka Vidmar, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Modernism and the avant-garde

Prof. Marko Juvan, Ph. D.,

Asst. Prof. Andraž Jež, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Narratology

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

Sociology of the (Slovenian) literary institution

Assoc. Prof. Marijan Dović, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Textology and digital humanities

Assist. Prof. Matija Ogrin, Ph.D,

Asst. Prof. Andrejka Žejn, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

World systems and Slovenian literary discourse

Prof. Marko Juvan, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6