Igor Perisić, PhD

Address: Institut za književnost i umetnost, Kralja Milana 2, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Email: perisigor@gmail.com
Telephones: +381 (0)64 985 9372; +381 (0)11 2686 036

Born:

13. january 1974, Zrenjanin, Serbia.

Qualifications:

2012 – PhD (Belgrade U). Research Thesis: “The Utopia of Laughter in the Novels Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Ullyses by James Joyce and The Golden Fleece by Borislav Pekić”.
2004 – MA (Belgrade U). Research Thesis: “Autopoetics and History in Danilo Kiš’s A Tomb for Boris Davidovič, Borislav Pekić’s New Jerusalem and Svetislav Basara’s The Cyclist Conspiracy”.
1999 – BA Hons, (Belgarde U) Faculty of Philology (Comparative Literature and Literary Theory).

Appointments and Scholarships:

2014 – Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham, Postdoctoral Research Scholarship. Topic of Postdoc: “The application of postcolonial theory and gender theory to (re)defining the genre of female portraits in Serbian literature and culture”.
2013 – Research Associate, The Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade (Belgrade U), on “Culturological Theories of Literature and Serbian Literary Criticism“.
2009–2010 – University “Martin Luther”, Halle-Wittenberg, German DAAD and Serbian Ministry of Science Exchange Grant, for international project: “Literature and post-socialist changes“, he was researcher at the University “Martin Luther” in Halle.
2006 – Research Assistant, The Institute for Literature and Arts (Belgrade U).
2005 – Co-Investigator, Research Grant, Ministry for Science and Ecology, on “Culturological Theories of Literature and Serbian Literary Criticism“.

Research interests:

- Literary theory
- Philosophy of literature
- Theory of comedy and laughter
- Postcolonial theory
- Gender studies
- Contemporary Serbian literature
- History of Serbian literary criticism

Languages:

Serbian, English and Russian.

Published Monographs:

1. (2014) Kritika i metakritika [Criticism and Metacriticism], Beograd, Institut za književnost i umetnost, 213 pp.
2. (2013) Utopija smeha [The Utopia of Laughter], Beograd, Službeni glasnik, 486 pp.
3. (2010, 2nd edition 2012) Uvod u teorije smeha [Introduction into Theories of Laughter], Beograd, Službeni glasnik, 174 pp.
4. (2007) Gola priča [The Naked Story], Beograd, Plato – Institut za književnost i umetnost, 301 pp.

Editorships of Journals (Member of the Editorial Board):

1. (2013–) Književna istorija: Časopis za nauku o književnosti [Literary History], Beograd, Institut za književnost i umetnost, ISSN 0350-6428, http://knjizevnaistorija.rs/glavna.php
2. (2014 –) Filološke studije [Philological Studies], The Department of Philology at Perm State University – The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana – The Institute of Macedonian Literature at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje – The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb – The Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade U, ISSN 1857-6060.
http://philologicalstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=40
3. (2014 –) The Dostoievski Journal http://www.brill.com/products/journal/dostoevsky-journal

Professional Organizations:

- Member of Srpsko književno društvo [Serbian Literary Society], http://www.skd.rs/?akcija=pisacPerisicIgor