Principal Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU; Associate Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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marko.juvan@zrc-sazu.si
Cultural and literary theory, comparative literature, theory of literary history and comparative literature, systems theory, intertextuality, European and Slovenian Romanticism, nationalism studies, Slavic literatures, Slovenian literature, East-Central European literatures, canon formation and cultural memory, world literature studies, geography and literature
Worlding a Peripheral Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Ed.: World Literatures from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century (= CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.5 [2013]).
Literary Studies in Reconstruction: An Introduction to Literature. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011.
History and Poetics of Intertextuality. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2008.
Ed. (w. Darko Dolinar): Writing Literary History: Selected Perspectives from Central Europe. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006.
Irony and Sentiment in the Literary Field: Prešeren’s Sonnets and the Slovenian Alphabet-censorship War. Neohelicon 50.2 (2023): 561–75.
Literature, Theory and Politics of the Long ’68: The Last Season of Modernism and Peripherality. European Review 29.6 (2021): 738–51.
Censorship and the Literary Field: Kopitar, Čop, and Krajnska čbelica. Slavica TerGestina 26.1 (2021): 244–67.
The Aesthetics and Politics of Belonging: National Poets between ‘Vernacularism’ and ‘Cosmopolitanism’. Arcadia 52.1 (2017): 10–28.
From Political Theater in Yugoslav Socialism to Political Performance in Global Capitalism: The Case of Slovenian Mladinsko Theater. European Review 24.1 (2016): 72–82.
Taking Darwin Metaphorically and Literally: Genres and Sciences in a Survival Struggle. Neohelicon 41.2 (2014): 303–15.
Doing Literature without Thinking: Paralogical Devices and the Literary Field. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue canadienne de littérature comparée 41.1 (2014): 54–71.
Slovenian Writers and Imperial Censorship in the Long Nineteenth Century (fundamental research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
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)
Icelandic and Slovenian Cultural Saints (bilateral project • September 29, 2009 - December 31, 2010)
Comparative Studies of Czech and Slovenian Literary Field in the Context of Central Europe (bilateral project • January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2008)
Marko Juvan, MAE, is a literary theorist and comparatist, Lead Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), and Professor of Slovenian literature at the University of Ljubljana. Juvan was born in 1960 in Ljubljana. In 1985 he graduated in Slovenian and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He holds a PhD in Literary Studies (1993) from the University of Ljubljana. In addition to many short-term additional research stays in Poland and Germany, he spent a semester as a postgraduate student at the Univesity of Tübingen in 1990. In 1986 he became Teaching Assistant at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Ljubljana. Since 1994 he has been teaching Literary Theory and Slovenian Literature at the same university (since 2007 as Professor). Since 1996, he has mostly been involved in research at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). From 2011–2020, he was Head of the Institute.
Juvan presented papers at scholarly conferences throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. He was a visiting professor at universities in Brno and Zagreb as well as a lecturer at the universities across Europe. As member of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, ICLA/AILC and REELC/ENCLS, he (co-)organised several international conferences, including 'Writing Literary History', 'Comparative Literature in the 20th Century', 'Responding to Cosmopolitanism', 'The Book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces' and 'The Spatial Turn in Literary Studies'. He sat on the editorial boards of Slovenian academic journals Jezik in slovstvo and Slavistična revija; currently, he is a member of the editorial boards of Primerjalna književnost, arcadia, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Context, Literaturna mis”l, Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum and Slavica litteraria. He is a co-editor of the ZRC SAZU book series Studia litteraria. From 2002 to 2006 he served as the president of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, from 2007 to 2011 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies (REELC/ENCLS), and from 2008 to 2014 he sat on the ICLA/AILC Committee on Literary Theory. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Academia Europaea, where from 2013 to 2017 he served on the Section Committee for Literary and Theatrical Studies. In 2019, he became a member of the Executive Committee of ICLA/AILC. In 2023, Juvan became an associate member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In addition to numerous articles and edited volumes in Slovenia and abroad (e.g., World Literatures from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century, a special issue of the CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2013), his recent books include History and Poetics of Intertextuality (2008), Literary Studies in Reconstruction (2011) and Wording a Peripheral Literature (2019).