Bojan Jović, PhD

Bojan Jovic is born on the April 25th, 1963 in Belgrade, where he finished primary and secondary school. Graduated in 1986 as the best student of his generation at the Philological Faculty in Belgrade, department of World literature and theory of literature. Gained a MA degree with the thesis “The Lyrical Novel (based on Serbian Expressionism material)” in 1989. He gained a PhD degree in 2000 with the thesis “Poetic Principles of Rastko Petrovic in the Context of European Avant-garde”.

An employee of the Institute for Literature and art in Belgrade since 1988. As a higher scientific associate, he is engaged in researching the relationship between Serbian and European avant-garde, science fiction, utopian and seriously-comical literature, as well as in comparing general characteristics and histories of Serbian and foreign literary forms and genres. He also investigates poetic traits of XIX and XX century Serbian literature, and theoretical-methodological issues connected with comparatistics and literary theory. Manager of the project „Comparative research of Serbian literature (in European context)", from 2006-2010. From 2011. manages the project "Serbian literature in European cultural space".

Worked as editor in „Književna rec“, „Itaka“, Esoterija, Stubovi kulture, ZepterBookWorld, „Književna istorija“. Editor-in-chief of „Književna rec“ from 1994 to 1995. A representative of Serbia and a member of the Executive board in the action COST A32 Open Scholarly Communities on the Web within the domain „Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health“ (ISCH) of European scientific and technical cooperation. Member of ??? (European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies).

Published monographs: The Lyrical Novel of Serbian Expressionism (1995), Poetics of Rastko Petrovic: Structure; Context (2005), The Birth of a Genre – The Becoming of Serbian Science Fiction Literature (2006), Heros of the modern times. Charlie Chaplin an the European avant-garde (2012), hundred and thirty specialist papers, as well as about twenty translations from English, German, French and Italian. His book The Lyrical Novel of Serbian Expressionism won the Stanislav Vinaver award in 1995 as the best first book in literary theory essayistics.