Irina Antanasijević (, ; born 27 June 1965) is a

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and

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, and translator. She received her Doctor of philological sciences degree in 2002 and has been a professor of Russian literature at Philology Faculty of University in Belgrade since 2004. Her scholarly interests include

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and post-folklore, visual literature and visual text, poetics of

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, and history of Russian emigration studies.

Biography

Born in the city of

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. After arriving to

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she lived in

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, and since 1991 till 1999 in

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. She worked as lecturer, and then as an assistant for Russian literature at Philology Faculty in Priština. She defended her thesis "Landscape in Russian and Serbian Epic" during the

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in 1999. She left Priština after the signing of Kumanovo Agreement (June 1999) and moved to

Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names of European cities in different languages (M–P)#N, names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the list of cities in Serbia, third largest city in Serbia and the administrative cente ...

. She worked as professor of

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at Philosophy Faculty in Niš and continued to work at Philosophy Faculty in Priština (with the seat in

Kosovska Mitrovica Mitrovica (Albanian language, Albanian Definiteness, indefinite Albanian morphology#Nouns (declension), form: ''Mitrovicë''; sr-Cyrl, Митровица, Mitrovica), also referred to as Kosovska Mitrovica ( sr-Cyrl, Косовска Митр� ...

). In 2002 she defended doctoral thesis ''Poetics of

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''. She initiated opening of the Department for Slavistics with Balcanistics at Philology Faculty in Niš (since 2002 Department for Russian language and literature). Professor of Russian literature at Philology Faculty of University in Belgrade. Member of Editorial Board of journal ''Gradina'' until 2009. Member of Editorial Board of periodical ''Facta universitatis'' until 2010. Member of Editorial Board of periodical ''Научный результат, Серия Социальные и гуманитарные исследования'' (Scientific Result, Series of Social and Humanitarian Studies).

Awards

* Medal of Pushkin (Russian Federation, November 24, 2021) – for a great contribution to the promotion of the Russian language and Russian culture in Serbia.

Bibliography

Monographs # ''Landscape in Russian and Serbian Folk Epics ''(''Пејзаж у руској и српској народној епици''), Prosveta, Niš, 2005, , 126 p. # ''Poetics of Russian Dirges ''(''Поетика руских тужбалица''), Prosveta, Niš, 2003, , 210 p. # ''Folklore and Avant-garde: symbols and phenomena'' (''Фольклор и авангард: символы и явления''), Niš, Gradac: ''Despot Book'', 2011, , 253 p. # ''Russian Comics in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia'' (''Русский комикс Королевства Югославия)'', Novi Sad, Komiko, 2014, , 340 p. # ''Russian Classic in Pictures''
Русская классика в картинках
, Belgrade: Philology Faculty of University of Belgrade, 2015 (Belgrade: Belpak), Библиотека Язык и литература. Серия Русская эмиграция в Белграде ; кн. 7, Dictionaries # ''Dictionary of general words and expressions'' (''Лексикон општих речи и израза)'', Budva, Kuća knjige, 2007 , 753 p. # ''Dictionary, Russian-Serbian Serbian-Russian'' (''Речник руско-српски српско-руски)'', Budva, Kuća knjige, 2007 , 832 p. # ''Phrase book, Russian-Serbian Serbian-Russian'' (''Разговорник руско-српски српско-руски''), Budva, Kuća knjige, 2007 , 192 p. Textbooks and manuals # ''Russian for students of biology and ecology ''(''Руски језик за студенте биологије и екологије''), Niš — Srpsko Sarajevo, 2002, , 190 p. # ''Russian for students of physics'' (''Руски језик за студенте физике''), Niš — Srpsko Sarajevo, 2001, UDK: 808. 2:53(075. 8), 185 p.

References

External links

Irina Antanasijević, a full bio-bibliography (Ирина Антанасијевић, био-библиографија)
Project Rastko – Russia (Serb)
Personal page at Academia.edu
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