Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
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andraz.jez@zrc-sazu.si
Andraž Jež’s research interests include Slovenian literature of the nineteenth century from the perspectives of the theory of ideology, social and political historiography, and modernist theories of nationalism.
Ed. (w. Jernej Habjan): May ’68 in Yugoslavia (= Slavica TerGestina 24.1 [2020]).
Stanko Vraz in nacionalizem: od narobe Katona do narobe Prešerna. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2016.
‘Music, much as people take snapshots during vacation’: An Outline of Mimetic Prospects in Musical Modernism. Literaturna mis’’l 63.2 (2022): 93–105.
‘The Nature of Humanity, or Rather the Nature of Things’ – Reification in the Works of Georg Lukács and Walter Benjamin. In: Confronting Reification: Revitalizing Georg Lukács’s Thought in Late Capitalism. Ed. Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 116–43.
Stanko Vraz and the Missing Saints of the Illyrian Movement. In: Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood. Ed. Jón Karl Helgason and Marijan Dović. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 122–50.
Reflections of Georg Lukács’s Concept of Reification in the Works of Walter Benjamin. In: The Thing: Conceptual and Cultural Aspects. Ed. Teresa Dobrzyńska and Raya Kuncheva. Warsaw: The Institute of Literary Research; Sofia: Institute for Literature, 2018. 331–72.
The Illyrian Movement. In: Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. Volume II. Ed. Joep Leerssen. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2018. 1098–102.
The Venetic Theory of Slovenian Descent. In: Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. Volume II. Ed. Joep Leerssen. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2018. 1378–80.
Mimesis im Kontext der Grenzüberschreitung im Kunstdiskurs des Modernismus. Trans. Rosemarie Linde. TheMa 5.1–2 (2016): 1–20.
The Return of the Partisan Art. Slavica Tergestina 17 (2016): 148–59.
Stanko Vraz a Češi. Slavica litteraria 17.2 (2014): 39–49.
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)
Slovenian Literature in Unknown Early Modern Manuscripts. Information-Technology Aided Analyses and Scholarly Editions (fundamental research project • August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2016)
Andraž Jež (born 1985) attended the art high school in Koper and studied Slovene studies and comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. In 2015, he received his PhD from the Postgraduate School of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Supervised by Marijan Dović, his dissertation provided the historical and linguistic contextualisation of Slovenian-Croatian poet Stanko Vraz (1810–1851). In 2023, Jež has taken up the position of an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slovene Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where he has taught Slovenian literature since 2017.