Ugledati se v drugem: Slovenska književnost v medkulturnem kontekstu

Dr. Silvija Borovnik is a full professor of Slovenian literature at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor. She is particularly engaged in research of contemporary Slovenian prose and playwriting, paying special attention to literary works of Slovenian female writers, as well as Slovenian-Austrian/German and Slovenian-Polish literary contacts. She is interested in the problems of literary translation and literature by male and female writers, which reflects different bicultural or multicultural contacts. She published several scientific monographs or parts of monographs, e.g. Do Women Write Differently? (Pišejo ženske drugače?) (1995), Studies and Change (Študije in drobiž) (1998), Narrative Prose in Slovenian Literature III (Pripovedna proza v Slovenski književnosti III) (2001, ed. J. Pogačnik), Slovenian Playwriting in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (Slovenska dramatika v drugi polovici dvajsetega stoletja) (2005), Literary Studies – On the Role of Women in Slovenian Literature, on Contemporary Prose and Slovenian Literature in Austria (Književne študije - o vlogi ženske v slovenski književnosti, o sodobni prozi in o slovenski književnosti v Avstriji) (2012) and Multiculturality and Interculturality in Slovenian Literature (Večkulturnost in medkulturnost v slovenski književnosti) (2017). She published the anthology of Austrian short prose Crossing the Horizon (Prekoračiti obzorje) (1991), the anthology of short prose of Slovenian female writers Call Me by My Name (Kliči me po imenu) (2013), and a selection from the short prose of Prežihov Voranc Girl with Mandolin (Dekle z mandolino) (2011) with accompanying studies, and translated from German (Peter Handke, Ingeborg Bachmann). She was a guest lecturer at universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Germany.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: silvija.borovnik@um.si