Retired Independent Humanities Specialist at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; retired Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
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alenka.koron@zrc-sazu.si
Alenka Koron’s research areas include narratology, literary theory and methodology of literary scholarship, theory of fiction, theory of autobiography, discourse theory, and modern Slovenian and foreign fiction. She has co-edited a collection on the autobiographical discourse (Avtobiografski diskurz, 2011) and written several essays on Slovenian and foreign authors of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She has also co-organised a conference on Slovenian autobiography (2009) and contributed to many international conferences in Slovenia and abroad.
Ed. (w. Dejan Kos): Literature and Narrative: Postclassical Perspectives and Analyses (= Primerjalna književnost 43.1 [2020]).
Ed. (w. Andrej Leben): Literarna večjezičnost v slovenskem in avstrijskem kontekstu. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2020.
Razgledi na tuje. Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2019.
Ed. (w. Andreas Leben): Literarische Mehrsprachigkeit im österreichischen und slowenischen Kontext. Tübingen: A. Francke.
Sodobne teorije pripovedi. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2014.
Ed. (w. Andrej Leben): Avtobiografski diskurz: teorija in praksa avtobiografije v literarni vedi, humanistiki in družboslovju. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2011.
Hagiographic Discourse in the Early Biographies of France Prešeren. In: Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood. Ed. Jón Karl Helgason and Marijan Dović. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 104–21.
Narrative Space in Ian McEwan’s Saturday. Frontiers of Narrative Studies 4.2 (2018): 359–73.
Boris Pahor’s Necropolis and World Literature. Forum for World Literature Studies 9.1 (2017): 8–24.
The Impact of European Structuralism on Slovenian Literary Criticism, 1960–2000. Slovene Studies 36.1 (2014): 3–17.
Nachwort. In: Vitomil Zupan: Reise ans Ende des Frühlings: Blitz in vier Farben. Trans. Aleksander Studen-Kirchner. Klagenfurt: Drava; Mohorjeva; Wieser, 2013. 223–35.
The Private Library of Lojze Kovačič and World Literature. Primerjalna književnost 35.1 (2012): 107–20.
Janez Trdina and Washington Irving: On the Genesis of Fiction in Their Short Narratives Through a Comparativist Lens. Slovene Studies 30.2 (2008): 135–53.
Time Regained? On Narrative in Literary Historiography. In: Writing Literary History: Selected Perspectives from Central Europe. Ed. Darko Dolinar and Marko Juvan. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006. 199–226.
Fiction, Autobiography and Memoir Intertwined: The Writings of Frank McCourt and Lojze Kovačič. In: Fiction and Autobiography: Modes and Models of Interaction. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006. 155–66.
May ’68 in Literature and Theory: The Last Season of Modernism in France, Slovenia, and the World (fundamental research project • July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2021)
National Poets and Cultural Saints of Europe: Commemorative Cults, Canonization, and Cultural Memory (fundamental research project • October 1, 2014 - September 30, 2017)
The Space of Slovenian Literary Culture: Literary History and the GIS-Based Spatial Analysis (fundamental research project • July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
The “Slovenian” World Literature: Locating World Literature in a National Literary System (fundamental research project • May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2013)
Slovenian and Czech National Revival (1780-1848) (bilateral project • January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2012)
Unknown 17th and 18th century manuscripts of Slovenian literature: information-technology aided register, scholarly editions and analyses (applied research project • February 1, 2008 - January 30, 2011)
Electronic Multimedia Text Centre (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2009)
Electronic Critical Editions of Slovenian Literature (applied research project • July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2007)
Critical Editions in Electronic Medium (applied research project • July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2004)
Dr. Alenka Koron, born 1956 in Ljubljana, studied Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She graduated in 1980 and received her PhD in 2010. She has worked as a librarian, Teaching Assistant to Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, a high school teacher of Slovenian language and literature, and has been a freelance researcher for a few years. From 2000 to 2022 she was a Research Assistant and librarian at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana). Since 1982 she has been publishing regularly in scholarly journals and other publications and has co-edited a monograph on autobiographical discourse. She has also organised a conference on Slovenian autobiography and has contributed to many international conferences in Slovenia and abroad.