senior assistant

Chair for South Slavic languages and literatures comparative history

Office: B-209
Telephone number: 01/6120-109
E-mail: imajic81@gmail.com

Office hours: e-mail only

Ivan Majić was born in 1981 in Split. In 2005, he graduated Croatian and South Slavic languages and literatures with a theme in contemporary Slovene drama. In 2011 he defended his doctoral thesis “Memory and Narrative: Intercultural Constelation of Meša Selimovićs Complete Work“ under supervision by Zvonko Kovač Ph.D. Aside from teaching in seminars on both Bosnia and Herzegovina and general South Slavic literature, he published scientific papers, journal articles and reviews in journals here and abroad. He has presented his papers at more than 30 international conferences, as well as being a guest professor at universities in Graz, Giessen, Hamburg, Klagenfurt, Zürich, Jena, the University of Washington, and Humboldt University of Berlin. It was at the latter that, during an Erasmus Staff Exchange Programme, he taught a seminar “Writing Exile: Displacement in Contemporary South-Slavic Literature“. From 2012 to 2014 he was a postgraduate scholar supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), working on a research project “Literary Homelessness: Identity Between Memory and Migration in post-Yugoslav Writers“, which was organized under the research platform “Kulturelle Orientirungen und gesellschaftliche Ordnungsstrukturen in Südosteuropa“ at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany. There he taught a course within the Institute for Slavic Studies “Postjugoslawische Migrantenliteratur“ in the academic year 2013/14. His scientific interests encompass themes in contemporary South Slavic literatures and cultures, post/ex-Yugoslav literature, Bosnia and Herzegovina literature, as well as broader issues of contemporary literary and cultural theory, with special emphasis on theoretical psychoanalysis.