Marko Juvan

Marko Juvan was born in 1960 in Ljubljana. He holds a PhD in Literary Studies (1993) from the U of Ljubljana. In addition to many short-term additional trainings in Poland and Germany, he spent a semester of postgraduate study at the U of Tübingen in 1990. In 1986 he got a post of teaching assistant at the Department of Slavic Studies, U of Ljubljana. Since 1994 he has been teaching literary theory and Slovenian literature at the same university (since 2007 as full professor). He changed his main affiliation in 1996, when he was employed as researcher at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts). He was elected head of the Institute in 2011.

Juvan presented papers at more than fifty scholarly conferences throughout Europe, in the US, Canada, South Korea, and Australia. He was visiting professor at the universities of Brno and Zagreb and lectured at the universities of Budapest, Munich, Hamburg, Prague, Vienna and Reykjavík. As member of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, ICLA/AILC, and REELC/ENCLS, he organized or co-organized several international conferences, a. o. on "Hybridizing Theory and Literature", "Writing Literary History", "Comparative Literature in the 20th Century", "Responding to Cosmopolitanism", "A Book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces". He was member of the editorial boards of the Slovenian academic journals "Jezik in slovstvo" and "Slavistična revija"; currently he is in the editorial boards of "Primerjalna književnost," "CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture," "Context," and "Slavica litteraria." He is also coediting the collection Studia litteraria. From 2002 to 2006 he served as the president of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, 2007–2011 he was member of the Executive Committee of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies (REELC/ENCLS), and since 2008 he has been in the Committee on Literary Theory of the ICLA/AILC. In 2012, he was elected member of the Academia Europaea.