Djordje Popović

Job title: 
Assistant Professor
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Teaching:

20th- and 21st-century South Slavic literature and cultural history; Yugoslav modernism; philosophy and literature; critical and social theory; literature of exile.


Education:

Ph.D. University of Minnesota (Comparative Literature)


Publications:

The Subject in Palanka: The Philosophy of Parochialism and the Work of Immanent Critique.” Parochialism in Translation, special issue of EuropeNow, edited by Suzana Vuljevic, no. 52, 15 February 2024.

From Hard Slavic Endings to Making Things Possible: The Political in Saša Stanišić’s Prose” (with Lilla Balint). Peripheral Europes, special issue of Critical Quarterly, edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Ivana Perica, vol. 65, no. 4, 2023, pp. 40-58.

From Exile to ‘Retro-Utopia’: A Yugoslav Writer’s Return.” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 30, no. 2, 2021, pp. 367-386.

Making the world philosophical again.” Filozofija i ekonomija: [zbornik], edited by Tomislav Krznar, Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo, 2020, pp. 367-379.

Circuits of influence: Brodsky’s Platonov and the ontology of alienation.” History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature, edited by Asher Ghaffar, Routledge, 2019, pp. 113-129.

Materialist Regressions and a Return to Idealism.” Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought Kontradikce.Časopis pro kritické myšlení, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 63-91.

Research interests: 

Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature; Danilo Kiš; Dubravka Ugrešić; critical theory (Frankfurt School); intellectual history.

Current book project:
The Concept of Statelessness in Second-World Literature

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