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.

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).

Bibliography