Research Assistant, PhD, at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
gasper.jakovac@zrc-sazu.si
Gašper Jakovac’s research focuses on early modern English literature and culture, especially on drama, performing arts, festive and social life, and various aspects of English Catholic culture. His wider interests include manuscript studies, European Renaissance and Baroque theatre, and literary and cultural contacts and exchanges between England, Italy and Slovenian ethnic territory in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Kar bog zahteva, to naj kralj ukrene: ideologija absolutizma v Shakespearovi trilogiji Henrik VI. Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2015.
Northern Catholics, Equestrian Sports, and the Gunpowder Plot. In: Early Performers and Performance in the North East of England. Ed. John McKinnell and Diana Wyatt. York: ARC Humanities P, 2021. 63–75.
The Catholic Country House in Early Modern England: Motion, Piety and Hospitality, c. 1580–1640. In: Early Modern Spaces in Motion. Ed. Kimberley Skelton. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2020. 81–110.
(W. Mark Chambers:) Welcoming James VI & I in the North-East: Civic Performance and Conflict in Durham and Newcastle. Medieval English Theatre 41 (2020): 84–133.
A Dancer Made a Recusant: Dance and Evangelization in the Jacobean North East of England. British Catholic History 34.2 (2018): 273–303.
Gašper Jakovac completed his undergraduate studies in comparative literature and history at the University of Ljubljana in 2012. He continued his education at Durham University, where he was a member of the Records of Early English Drama North-East project (2014–2018). In 2018, he defended his doctoral thesis Theatre, Catholic Communities, and Popular Entertainment in England’s North-East, c. 1600–1625 (supervised by dr. Barbara Ravelhofer). As a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer he worked at many universities and research institutions in Great Britain, Italy, and Canada. In 2024, after completing his MSCA project Catholic Performance Culture in Early Modern England at the University College London and the University of Toronto, Jakovac joined the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies.