Biljana Dojčinović-Nešić ( sr-Cyrl, Биљана Дојчиновић; born 1963) is a Serbian feminist academic, who specialises in Serbian literature and Gender Studies, and who co-founded the
Center for Women's Studies in Belgrade. She is Professor of Literature in the Faculty of Philology at the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
. She is the first person to publish a book on
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Woolf was born i ...
in
Serbian.
Education
In 1986, Biljana Dojčinović graduated from the Department of General Literature and Literary Theory of the Faculty of Philology at the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
. At the same faculty, in 1991, she defended her master's thesis 'The category of gender in American gynocriticism' (Категорија род у америчкој гинокритици), and then, in 2003, her doctoral dissertation, ''Narrative processes in John Updike's novels (Приповедни поступци у романима Џона Апдајка)''.
Career
Dojčinović is Professor of Literature at the Department of General Literature and Literary Theory of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade. She is one of the founders of the
Center for Women's Studies in Belgrade, as well as the Indoc Center of the Association for Women's Initiative. From 2002 to 2008, she was the editor-in-chief of the magazine for feminist theory, ''Genero''.
As a member of The
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth ...
Society (JUS), as well as a member of the editorial board of ''The John Updike Review'' since its inception, Dojčinović has been on the board of directors since 2015. She was a member of the board of the research project, ''Women Writers in History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture'' (2009−2013) from 2011. Since 2011, she has been the manager of the research project ''Literature - theory and history of women's literature in the Serbian language until 1915''. She is the chief editor ''of
Knjizenstva''
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Research
Dojčinović was the first author to publish a book on
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Woolf was born i ...
in Serbian. She has also written criticism on other modernist writers, such as
Henry James
Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...
. She has also written on how women's studies in the region has shifted from a focus on women through a Communist lens, to a more theoretical and individual approach. In her work on Updike, she has argued that his short story collection ''
The Afterlife and Other Stories'' is a pivotal work that demonstrates a change in his writing on feminism. She has written on the role of
Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja
Milica Stojadinovic-Srpkinja ( sr-cyr, Милица Стојадиновић Српкиња, ) (1828–1878) was a Serbian poet, sometimes called "the greatest female Serbian poet of the 19th century".
Career
As her fame spread beyond the confin ...
in the development of women's writing in Serbia, through a feminist framework.
Recognition
In 2016, she received the
Anđelka Milić :sr:Anđelka Milić">sr">:sr:Anđelka_Milić.html" ;"title="nowiki/>:sr:Anđelka Milić">srAward for the book ''Pravo sunca - different modernisms (Academic book, Novi Sad, 2015).''
Selected works
*Dojcinovic, Biljana, and Nemanja Glintic. "John Updike in Serbia." ''Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts'' (2022): 63.
*Dojčinović, Biljana. "The Politics of Vulnerability in The Afterlife and Other Stories." ''Updike and Politics: New Considerations'' (2019): 161.
*Dojčinović, Biljana. "Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective." ''From Humanism to Meta-, Post-and Transhumanism?'' (2016): 269-82.
*Daskalova, Krassimira, et al. "Clio on the margins: women's and gender history in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (Part one)." ''Aspasia'' 6.1 (2012): 125-185.
*Dojčinović, Biljana. "Forging, Milking, Delivering: The Female and Maternal as Links Between A Portrait and Ulysses." ''Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies'' 3.1 (2011): 163-173.
*Dojčinović-Nešić, Biljana. "Translation as Border-Crossing: Virginia Woolf’s Case." ''TRANS-. Revue de littérature générale et comparée'' 9 (2010).
*Dojčinović, Biljana. "De-centered Pluralism of Methods: Feminist Literary Criticism in Serbia." ''Gender and Identity''. Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd 281-296.
*Dojčinović, Biljana. "Feministička čitanja i preispitivanje književnog kanona." ''Genero: časopis za feminističku teoriju i studije kulture'' 01 (2002): 36-42.
*Dojčinović, Biljana. "On Women and Literature at the Beginning of XX Century." ''Selected Papers. Belgrade women's studies journal: Anniversary issue 1992/2002''. Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd 83-88.
*Dojčinović, Biljana. "O ženama i književnosti na početku veka." ''Ženske studije: časopis za feminističku teoriju'' 11-12 (2000): 23-33.
References
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1963 births
Living people
20th-century Serbian women writers
Feminist theorists
Gender studies academics
Serbian literary historians
Serbian literary theorists
University of Belgrade
21st-century Serbian women writers
20th-century Serbian historians
21st-century Serbian historians
Serbian women historians