e-mail: suzana@ief.hr
Suzana Marjanić, research advisor
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb
Suzana Marjanić, research advisor (b. 1969), works at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore in Zagreb, where she realizes her interests in the theories of myth and ritual (dissertation: Myth in oral literature — tracing of the Nodilo’s re/construction of the “old faith” of Serbs and Croats. IEF rkp. 1774, 2002.), cultural and critical animal studies and performance studies.
Books: She published six authored books:
Voices of “Bygone Days”: Transgressions of Worlds in Krleža’s Notes 1914-1921/22 (2005),
Chronotope of Croatian Performance Art: From Traveleri until Today (2014),
The Topoi of Performance Art: A Local Perspective (2017),
Cetera animantia: From Ethnozoology to Zooethics (2022),
Myths and Re/contructions: Tracing Natko Nodilo’s Old Faith of Serbs and Croats (2022) and
Performance Art nad Kynicism: Performance Line of Resistance (2022).
She is the co-editor of 11 anthologies: Cultural Bestiary (Zagreb, 2007), Literary animal. Cultural Bestiary 2 (Zagreb, 2012, both cultural animal studies anthologies with Antonija Zaradija Kiš), Animal: a book about humans and non-humans. Cultural Bestiary 3 (Zagreb, 2022, with Maja Pasarić and Antonija Zaradija Kiš), with Marijana Hameršak she edited Folkloristička čitanka (Zagreb, 2010), with Ines Prica Mitski zbornik (Zagreb, 2010), with Bojan Koštić Krležin EU/ropski furiosum (Koprivnica, 2016), Ecofeminism: between green and women’s studies (Zagreb, Durieux, 2020) with Goran Đurđević, The Cat-Collection: From Bastet to Catwoman (Zagreb: Jesenski & Turk, KIC, 2022) with Rosana Ratkovčić, a collection Ekokritika: između prirode i kulture (Sveučilište u Zadru, 2024) with Goran Đurđević and Miranda Levanat Peričić, a collection Ecofeminism on the Edge: Theory and Practice (Emerald, 2024) with Goran Đurđević, a collection Mit, vjerovanje i prostor (2024) „dedicated to Tomo Vinšćak, a scientist, researcher and friend from the top of the world” with Marijana Belaj, Tibor Komar and Ivana Radovani Podrug.
She is a member of the editorial board of the magazine Treća: magazine of the Center for Women’s Studies, the biweekly Zarez (until 2016, when the biweekly was discontinued) and the magazine Narodna umjetnost.
University teaching:
She is an external associate (lecturer) at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zadar (course: Theories of Rituals, Animal Anthropology) and the Department of Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies in Zagreb (course on Miroslav Krleža and Literary Anthropology).
Prizes:
For the book Chronotope of Croatian Performance Art: From Traveleri until Today (Bijeli val, Institute of Ethnology and Folkloristics, School Book): Annual Award of the Croatian Section of AICA and State Award for Science.For the book Cetera animantia: from ethnozoology to zooethics (2022), she won the “Milovan Gavazzi” Annual Award.
Collective exhibitions:
She participated in several exhibitions: Iris – Croatian national flower: science and art of nature (Modulor Gallery, Zagreb, 2005, organized by Morana Biljaković from the Iris Croatica Society and the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb), Mit i art / Mitas ir menas / Myth and Art (Zagreb, Bačva Gallery; Kaunas, Meno parkas Gallery, 2013) (selection of artists from Croatia: with curator Sara Čičić); Osamdesete, Eighties (HDLU; Zagreb, 2015; curators: Branko Kostelnik and Feđa Vukić; together with Branko Kostelnik Marjanić designed the program of re-performances, and she is the author of the part of the exhibition on performance art); 51st Zagreb Visual Arts Salon Challenges to Humanism on the topic of the refugee/humanitarian crisis (HDLU, Zagreb, 2016; with curator and multimedia artist Marijana Stanić); Woman – pregnant – mother: green spheres and necropolitics (Vladimir Bužančić Gallery, 2017, with curator Anita Zlomislić); Dissimulation of the mask (AK gallery, Koprivnica, 2021, with the curatorial team of the AK gallery); How to Look at Natures – Art and the Capitalocene (Galerija Prsten, Zagreb, 2023, with multimedia artist Ivana Filip); Long live the animals!… and what would animals say about us (Istarska sabornica, Poreč, 2024, with curator Jerica Ziherl).