Suzana Marjanić, PhD

Suzana Marjanić, research advisor

Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research,  Zagreb

suzana@ief.hr

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.

She published six author’s 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 (2021), 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 eight anthologies: Cultural Bestiary (Zagreb, 2007), Literary animal. Cultural Bestiary 2 (Zagreb, 2012, both cultural animalistic anthologies with A. 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 I. Prica Mitski zbornik (Zagreb, 2010), with B. Koštić Krležin EU/ropski furiosum (Koprivnica, 2016), a collection of works Ecofeminism: between green and women’s studies (Zagreb, Durieux, 2020) she edited with Goran Đurđević, and  The Cat-Collection: From  Bastet to Catwoman (Zagreb: Jesenski & Turk, KIC, 2022) with Rosana Ratkovčić.

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.

Teaching activity:

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, State Award for Science.

Bibliography (available online):

https://www.bib.irb.hr:8443/pretraga?operators=and|suzana%20marjani%C4%87|text|profile