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Jernej Habjan, PhD
Senior Research Associate

+386 1 470 63 09

jernej.habjan@zrc-sazu.si


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Jernej Habjan is a member of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, where he works in literary theory, comparative literary studies and sociology of literature. He has held postdoctoral positions at Princeton University, University of Munich and the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. He is also a former member of the Research Committee on Literary Theory at the International Comparative Literature Association. At the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, he coordinates the Literature in Context module. Habjan has a PhD in Sociology and a BA in Comparative Literature and Russian Studies, both from the University of Ljubljana.

In his research, Jernej Habjan focuses on the conceptions of literature in contemporary critical theory, world literature studies and speech-act theory. In his current comparative work, he looks at global literature as an idea whose history is itself global. Additional interests include the topos of uncles and nephews in Denis Diderot, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Jacques-Alain Miller, and Thomas Bernhard.

Ed.: Focus: May ’68 and Its Philosophers: Paris, Beijing, Ljubljana (= European Review 29.6 [2021]: 699–761).

Ed.: May ’68 at 50: Politics and Literature (= Interventions 23.3 [2021]).

Ordinary Literature Philosophy: Lacanian Literary Performatives between Austin and Rancière. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Co-ed. (w. Fabienne Imlinger): Globalizing Literary Genres. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Co-ed. (w. Suman Gupta and Hrvoje Tutek): Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Ed.: Novel beyond Nation (= Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue canadienne de littérature comparée 42.4 [2015]).

Co-ed. (w. Jessica Whyte): (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

The Global Process of Thinking Global Literature: From Marx’s Weltliteratur to Sarkozy’s littérature-monde. Journal of Global History 14.3 (2019): 395–412.

The First Slovenian Novel and the Literary World-System. Journal of World Literature 3.4 (2018): 512–23.

Rancière’s Lesson: October ’17, May ’68, October ’17. CR: The New Centennial Review 18.3 (2018): 53–71.

(W. Sowon Park:) World Literature. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory. Ed. Eugene O’Brien. New York: Oxford UP, 2017.

Ordinary Literature Philosophy: Literary Studies after Cultural Studies. South Atlantic Quarterly 115.4 (2016): 699–714.

From Cultural Third-Worldism to the Literary World-System. CLCWeb 15.5 (2013): n. pag.

Canonization – Culturalization – Sanctification: Romeo and Juliet in the Western Canon, ‘French Resentment’ and Lacanian Ethics. (a): The Journal of Culture and the Unconscious 8.1 (2009–2010): 35–46.

Teaching
  • Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, doctoral programme Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, module Literature in Context, course Discourse Theory and Literature
  • University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, course Research Methods 3
Awards and recognitions
  • Odlični v znanosti, Slovenian Research Agency (2021)
Research areas
General and comparative literature, literary criticism, literary theory H390

Keywords
literary theory
world literature
historical materialism
Slovenian literature
Psychoanalysis

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