Svetlana Šeatovic, PhD

Born on June 2nd, 1975 in Nova Gradiška, Republic of Croatia. Finished two years of the Pakrac Philological Secondary School. In September 1991 she left Western Slavonia because of the civil war, and has been living in Belgrade ever since. She graduated with excellent notes from the Pedagogical Academy in Belgrade in 1993. From 1993-1998 she studied at the Belgrade University, Faculty of Philology, Department of Serbian Literature and Language with Comparative Literature, and graduated in 1998. During 1994/95 also studied at the Department for Italian Language and Literature. Started her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philology in 1998, Department of Literary Theory. From 1999 to 2002 employed at the Faculty of Philology as research trainee. She defended her MA thesis was “Intertextuality in the Poetry of Ivan V. Lalic” in 2002 under the mentorship of Prof. Jovan Delic; the committee included Prof. N. Petkovic, Prof. J. Delic and Dr. A. Jerkov.

She published a monograph, Tradition and Innovation. Intertextuality in the Poetry of Ivan V. Lalic in 2004. She also edited and translated into Serbian the correspondence between Ivan V. Lalic and Charles Simic, A View Across the Ocean. The Correspondence of Ivan V. Lalic and Charles Simic 1969-1996, published in 2007 by Cigoja štampa, the Pedagogical Faculty and the Institute for Literature and Arts.

Employed at the Institute for Literature and Arts since 2002, at the project “Formation of the poetics of modern Serbian literature in the early 20th century”, at the time led by Prof. Novica Petkovic. From 2002-2010, she was secretary of the project and took part in organisational and programming work for scientific conferences.

Engaged as research assistant at the international project COST in the Institute for Literature and Arts from 2007 to 2011.

Since September 2007, assistant teacher at the Pedagogical Faculty in Belgrade, for the module “Introduction into Interpreting Serbian Literature”.

Defended her PhD thesis, Nature and Function of Cycles in the Poetry of Vasko Popa and Ivan V. Lalic, at the Faculty of Philology, May 6th 2010, under the mentorship of Prof. Jovan Delic; the committee included Prof. Aleksandar Jovanovic, Prof. J. Delic and Dr. A. Jerkov. In 2010 she was also elected as a research associate.

Together with Aleksandar Jovanovic, she edited a collection of papers, Poetic verticals of Ljubomir Simovic (Institute for Literature and Arts, Pedagogical Faculty, Belgrade, Ducic’s Poetry Evenings, Trebinje, Belgrade-Trebinje, 2011). She is currently preparing an international collection of papers, Mediterranean landscapes in Serbian and Italian 20th Century Literature, with Maria Rita Leto and Persida Lazarevic Di Giacomo. The collection will be published by the Institute for Literature and Arts from Belgrade and the Pescara University (Italy).

At the 2010 contest of Ministry of Science, Republic of Serbia, she won a stipend for a six-month post-doctoral research in Italy. During 2011 and 2012, she concluded a post-doctoral specialisation (textology and critical editions) at the University of Verona and made consultation visits to universities in Torino, Pescara and Pisa. She was also trained at the Centre for manuscripts of Italian 20th century literature, at the University of Pavia, and at the Institute for Computational Linguistics (CNR) in Pisa.

She has published over 80 papers dealing with the subject of contemporary and modern Serbian poetry of the 20th century in national and foreign publications. The theoretical model for her work belongs to theories of intertextuality and citationality, the theory of poetic cycles and cultural theories.

Represents the Institute for Literature and Arts in the Association of Serbian Institutes since 2011, and since December of that year she is a Board member of that association’s Group for Social and Humanist Sciences.

She has written literary reviews for several monthly magazines, for Politika’s Cultural Supplement and for Vecernje novosti. Fluent knowledge of English and Italian.

Мother of one child.