Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Associate Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
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marijan.dovic@zrc-sazu.si
In his major research projects, Marijan Dović studies literature and censorship, Romanticism, European cultural nationalism, national poets and cultural saints, the literary canon, systems theory, the interwar avant-garde in the Balkans and the theory of authorship.
Ed. (w. Luka Vidmar): Habsburg Censorship and Literature in the Slovenian Lands (= Slavica TerGestina 26.1 [2021]).
Ed. (w. Jón Karl Helgason): Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
(W. Jón Karl Helgason:) National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Ed.: National Poets and Romantic (Be)Longing (= Arcadia 52.1 [2017]: 1–73).
Ed. (w. Gregor Pompe): Literatur und Musik (= TheMa 5.1–2 [2016]).
Anatomy of the ‘deathly silence’: Slovenian Newspapers in Carniola and the pre-March Censorship. Neohelicon 50.2 (2023): 543–60.
Slovenian Literature and Imperial Censorship after 1848. Slavica TerGestina 26.1 (2021): 268–95.
The Slovenian Matica: The ‘Foundation-Stone’. In: The Matica and Beyond: Cultural Associations and Nationalism in Europe. Ed. Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 97–117.
From Autarky to ‘Barbarian’ Cosmopolitanism: The Early Avant-Garde Movements in Slovenia and Croatia. In: Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development. Ed. Adam J. Goldwyn and Renée M. Silverman. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 233–50.
Venerating Poets and Writers in Europe: From Hero Cults to Nineteenth-Century Nationalist Commemoration. Studies on National Movements 3 (2015): 1–32.
‘Every Monument Erected by a Nation to Its Greats Is Erected to the Nation Itself’: Vodnik, Prešeren, and the Nationalization of the Carniolan Capital’s Topography. Neohelicon 41.1 (2014): 27–41.
France Prešeren: A Conquest of the Slovene Parnassus. In: History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. 97–109.
The Slovenian Interwar Literary Avant-garde and its Canonization. In: Europa! Europa?: The Avant-garde, Modernism, and the Fate of a Continent. Ed. Sascha Bru. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 36–48.
Mountaineering Literature: Slovenia and Beyond. Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, Internationality (fundamental research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
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)
Icelandic and Slovenian Cultural Saints (bilateral project • September 29, 2009 - December 31, 2010)
Evolution of Authorial Roles: Slovene Literary Author in Comparative European Context (postdoctoral research project • January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2008)
Critical Editions in Electronic Medium (applied research project • July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2004)
Dr. Marijan Dović, born in Zagreb in 1974, studied comparative and Slovenian literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 2006, he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Marko Juvan. Since 2000, he has worked as a researcher at the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies. He also teaches at the ZRC SAZU Postgraduate School, the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica. In Slovenian, he has written books on systemic and empirical approaches to literature (Sistemske in empirične obravnave literature, 2004), the role of the literary producer (Slovenski pisatelj, 2007), the interwar avant-garde (Mož z bombami, 2009) and the canonisation of the Slovenian national poet (Prešeren po Prešernu, 2017). With J. K. Helgason, he wrote the book National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe (Brill, 2017). He has co-edited thematic volumes on literature and censorship, publishing, book history, the spatial turn in literary studies, and literature and music. He is editor-in-chief of the comparative literature journal Primerjalna književnost (2016–) and co-editor of the book series Studia litteraria (2018–). He was awarded the 2021 ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research for the book Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood, which he co-edited with J. K. Helgason (Brill, 2019).