Bojan Čolak, PhD

Born in Belgrade, on August 18th , 1978. In 1998 he enrolled at the Belgrade University, Faculty of Philology, Department of Serbian Literature and Language with Comparative Literature, and graduated in 2003 with the thesis “The Problem of Impure Blood in Borisav Stankovic’s Novel Impure Blood”. In 2007 he defended his master thesis, “The Influence of the Patriarchal Social Model at the Male Consciousness in Borisav Stankovic’s Novel Gazda Mladen”. He started his PhD thesis “Models of Representing the Patriarchal Society in Serbian Modernist Prose” in 2008. Employed as research trainee since july 1st, 2004, at the project Change of poetic paradigms in Serbian literature of the twentieth century: a national and European context, and promoted to research assistant in 2007. His fields of interest include 20th century Serbian literature, culturology, interdisciplinarity. Speaks English.

Courses: “Dostojevski as a Thinker”, Center for Literary History and Theory, 2000/2001; “Gender Studies”, Faculty od Political Science, Belgrade University, 2003/2004; “Internet and Literature”, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade University, 2003/2004.

Awards: II Branko’s Prize, awarded by Matica srpska, for the best graduate thesis in 2002/2003; I prize in a competition for Dis-related essays, awarded during the 41. Dis’ Springtime, in 2004.