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 Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
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monika.dezelak@zrc-sazu.si
Monika Deželak Trojar works on Slovenian seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature as well as seventeenth-century historiography; she regularly participates in research projects at the institute and eslewhere.
Ed.: Janez Ludvik Schönleben v luči novih raziskav. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2021.
Janez Ludvik Schönleben (1618–1681). Oris življenja in dela. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2017.
Ed.: Skalar, Adam: Skalarjev rokopis 1643: editio princeps: znanstvenokritična izdaja. Celje: Celjska Mohorjeva družba: Društvo Mohorjeva družba; Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovensko literaturo in literarne vede ZRC SAZU, 2011.
Notes and commentary (w. Matija Ogrin): Romuald: Škofjeloški pasijon: elektronska znanstvenokritična izdaja. Version 1.0. Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovensko literaturo in literarne vede ZRC SAZU, 2009.
Johann Ludwig Schönleben (1618–1681) – Barockgelehrter von europäischem Rang. Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur mit Geographie 67.1 (2023): 46–61.
Schönleben’s Prohibited Mariological Works. Slavica TerGestina 26.1 (2021): 116–42.
Teoretska opredelitev in vloga dramatike v jezuitskem redovnem ustroju. Primerjalna književnost 43.2 (2020): 141–69.
Seventeenth-Century Literature in Carniola at the Meeting Point of European Cultures and Languages. In: Multikulturaliz’m i mnogoezichie: T. 2. Ed. Dobromir Grigorov. Veliko Tarnovo: Faber, 2017. 498–505.
The Skalar Manuscript, A Long Forgotten Jewel of Slovenian Baroque Literature. Scripta & e-scripta 12 (2013): 9–23.
Jesuit Plays as a Factor in the Development of Early Modern Drama: The Slovenian and Central European Context (postdoctoral research project • March 1, 2018 - February 29, 2020)
Forbidden Books in Slovenian Lands in the Early Modern Age (applied research project • January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018)
History of Doctoral Dissertations by Slovene Candidates in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1872–1918) (interdisciplinary project • January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018)
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)
The leading humanists in the Slovenian territory between the 16th and mid-19th centuries and their social and cultural environment (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)
Unknown 17th and 18th century manuscripts of Slovenian literature: information-technology aided register, scholarly editions and analyses (applied research project • February 1, 2008 - January 30, 2011)
Monika Deželak Trojar was born in 1982 in Celje, Slovenia. After finishing elementary school in Nova Cerkev and Dobrna, and the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium in Šentvid, she studied Latin and History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She completed her studies in 2007 by defending her BA thesis on The Panegyric Composed by Ennodius in Honour of King Theodoric: On the Stylistic and Rhetorical Dimensions of Panegyric and Its Historical Relevance. In the same year, she started working as Junior Researcher at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In October 2015, she defended, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor, her docotral dissertation titled Johann Ludwig Schönleben, 1618–1681, in the Light of Archival Sources, and His Historical and Rhetoric Oeuvre.