dr. sc. Danijela Lugarić Vukas, izv. prof.

Dr. Danijela Lugarić Vukas

dlugaric@ffzg.hr Office: B-208

 

CV

2020 – Associate Professor, Russian Literary Section, Department of East Slavic Languages and Literatures

2020-2021 – Chair, Department of East-Slavic languages and literatures 2013-… – Chair, Institute of Literary Studies

2015-2020 – Assistant Professor

2011 – JFDP fellow (University of California, Berkeley) 2010 – PhD

2006 – Thesis Researcher, Faculty of Philology, St.-Petersburg State University 2004 – DAAD fellow (Konstanz University)

2002 – Badalić award for the student of the year

2002 – BA (double major) in Croatian language and literature and Russian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

 

Research interests

 

20th and 21st century Russian literature and film, East-European and Central-European cultures, female prose writers in Russia, trauma studies and memory studies, the culture of the late Soviet socialism, strategies of documentary in literature, Russian critical theories, Gulag, Leo Tolstoy

Courses Graduate

Leo Tolstoy, Literature and Culture of the Late Socialism (1953-1968), Literature and Culture of the Late

Socialism 2 (1968-1990s), Russian Female Prose, Russian Critical Theory of the 20th and 21st Century, Russian Literary Ideas, Poetics of Memory

 

Post-Graduate

Witness and Testimony in Literature and Film

 

 

Projects

2021-2025 – researcher, “Russian Literary Transformations from 1990 to 2020 (PI: Prof. Jasmina Vojvodić, Transform IP-2020-02-2441), (funding body: Croatian Science Foundation), homepage https://transform-1990-2020.ffzg.unizg.hr/

 

2016-2019 – principal investigator, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Literary Criticism” (Institutional

support, University of Zagreb)

 

2014-2018 – researcher, “Neomythologism in the Culture of the 20th and 21st Century“ (PI: Prof. Jasmina Vojvodić, Neomyth, 6077) (funding body: Croatian Science Foundation), homepage http://neomitologizam.ffzg.unizg.hr/

 

2017-2020 – researcher, “Economic Foundations of Croatian Literature” (PI: Maša Kolanović, associate

professor) (funding body: Croatian Science Foundation)

 

2004-2010 – junior researcher, “Croatian Literature” (PI: Prof. D. Oraić Tolić) (funding body: Croatian

Ministry of Science, Education and Sports)

 

Memberships

2020 onwards – on the editorial board of the journal “Central European Cultures”

2021 onwards – member of the International Dostoevsky Society

2018 onwards – member of Association for Slavic, East European and Euroasian Studies (ASEEES)

 

Conference organization and co-organization

 

2019 – ASEEES Convention, Association for Slavic, East European and Euroasian Studies (organizing committee)

 

2019 – East-Central European Literature in/as World Literature (with Institute for Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies and Institute for Digital Humanistic, Eötvös Loránd University and Association for the Study of General Literature – ÁITK)

 

2015 – The Future(s) of (Post)Socialism, Stony Brook University (co-organizer)

 

2015 – Theorizing Myth, Trauma and Memory in Central and East European Cultural Spaces (with Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies)

 

 

Selected Bibliography

 

 

“Pojmovnik ruske avangarde 10” (ed., Sandorf, 2021; in Croatian)

“M. Bakhtin: The Theory of the Novel” (Edicije Božičević, transl., 2020; in Croatian)

“Journeys to the Otherness: Myth, Class, and Gender in Russian Literature, Film and Popular Culture”

(FF press & HSN, 2019; in Croatian)

“The Cultural History of October Revolution: 100 Years Later” (ed., FF press & HSN, 2017, 2019; in

Croatian)

“The Future of Post-Socialism: Eastern European Perspectives” (eds., with J. F. Bailyn and D. Jelača,

SUNY Press, 2018)

“Myth and Its Discontents: Precarious Life of Memory and Trauma in Central and Eastern European Literature” (eds., with M. Car and G. T. Molnar, Praesens Verlag, 2017)

“The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other (eds., with D. Jelača and M. Kolanović, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

 

 

Full bibliography

 

 

https://www.bib.irb.hr/pretraga?operators=and%7CLugarić,%20Danijela%20%2831275%29%7Ctext%

7Cprofile

 

 

Personal web page in Croatian http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/slaven/istocna/?page_id=110 https://ffzg.academia.edu/DanijelaLugaric

 

 

 

Danijela Lugarić Vukas is Associate Professor at Department of East-Slavic languages and literatures at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and the Director of the Institute of Literary Studies, where she edits Biblioteka L monographs in literary criticism (https://zzk.ffzg.unizg.hr). Her research interests include the history of Russian literature and film, comparative literature, female prose writers, trauma, memory and literature, the culture of late Soviet socialism, strategies of documentary in literature,

Russian critical theory, and postcolonial readings of post-Soviet culture. Her recent

publications include: “Pojmovnik ruske avangarde 10” (ed., Sandorf, 2021; in Croatian), “M. Bakhtin: The Theory of the Novel” (Edicije Božičević, transl., 2020; in Croatian), “Journeys to the Otherness: Myth, Class, and Gender in Russian Literature, Film and Popular Culture” (FF press & HSN, 2019; in Croatian); “The Cultural History of October Revolution: 100 Years Later” (ed., FF press & HSN, 2017, 2019; in Croatian), “The Future of Post-Socialism: Eastern European Perspectives” (eds., with J. F. Bailyn and D. Jelača, SUNY Press, 2018); “Myth and Its Discontents: Precarious Life of Memory and Trauma in Central and Eastern European Literature” (eds., with M. Car and G. T. Molnar, Praesens Verlag, 2017); “The Cultural Life of

Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other (eds., with D. Jelača and M. Kolanović, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Since 2005, she publishes articles in various journals, including “Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema”, “Colloquia Humanistica”, “Mundo eslavo”, “Russian literature”, and “sic”.

 

Full bibliography

 

https://www.bib.irb.hr/pretraga?operators=and%7CLugarić,%20Danijela%20%2831275%29

%7Ctext%7Cprofile

 

Personal web page in Croatian http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/slaven/istocna/?page_id=110 See also

https://ffzg.academia.edu/DanijelaLugaric