Branko Zlatković, PhD

Branko R. Zlatkovic was born in 1973 in Arandelovac. He attended primary school and grammar school in his native city. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade University in 1999. He obtained his MA Degree at the above faculty in 2005, having defended a thesis entitled The First Serbian Uprising “in Word and Deed” , and his PhD Degree in 2010, having defended a doctoral thesis entitled The Coming into Being of the New Serbian State – Oral Narrative Genres Dealing with Historical Figures and Events from the First Serbian Uprising to the Congress of Berlin 1804–1878.

Since 2002, he has been employed at the Institute for Literature and Art in Belgrade, where he is engaged on the project Serbian Oral Creations.

For a number of years, he worked as the head of the International Folkloristics Camp (Tršic – Belgrade) and the International Youth Congress of Serbian and Balkan Spirituality (Arandelovac – Belgrade).

He has been the editor of Foundation, a periodical published by Vuk’s Foundation, and 1804, a periodical published by the Foundation Society “The First Serbian Uprising”.

He has worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Political Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities in Belgrade in the following subjects related to journalism: Stylistics and Rhetoric, Reportage, News Processing.

He has participated in a number of domestic and international scientific conferences. He has published a large number of studies in periodicals dealing with the following scientific areas: Serbian oral literature and the Serbian literature of the 19th century. He has prepared a number of books for publication, and in 2007 he published the book The First Serbian Uprising in Word and Deed.