Literatura in cenzura - Društvo za primerjalno književnost - ZRC SAZU

ABOUT THE AUTHORSSalah Salim Ali studied English at Mosul University and completed an MA inTranslation and Linguistics at the University of Bath in 1982. Until 2005, he didresearch in Literary Translation and Contrastive Linguistics (Arabic-English) andtaught at Mosul University. During the occupation of Iraq he moved to Kristiansand,Norway, where he is a visiting lecturer at the University of Agder and also works as awriter, translator, interpreter, and human rights activist.Guido Bonsaver teaches Italian at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellowof Pembroke College. A cultural historian, he is interested in the relationship betweenpolitical history and narrative in literature and film. He has published studies on ItaloCalvino (Turin, 1995), Elio Vittorini, censorship (Oxford, 2005, and Toronto, 2007)and on the film adaptations of Luigi Pirandello’s works. He is currently working on abiography of Gaetano Pilati, a socialist killed by the Fascists in 1925.Marijan Dović is a research fellow at the SRC SASA literary institute and lecturerat the University of Nova Gorica. His research interests include contemporary systemstheory, literary evaluation and canon formation, theory and history of authorship,the historical avant-garde in Slovenian literature, and 19 th -century literature. In2004, he published the monograph Sistemske in empirične obravnave literature (Systemicand Empirical Approaches to Literature) and in 2007 an overview of the evolution ofthe Slovenian author titled Slovenski pisatelj (The Slovenian Writer). He also composesand performs jazz.Peter Dunwoodie, a comparative literature professor at Goldsmiths, University ofLondon, focuses primarily on French and francophone colonial literature in Algeriaand on Albert Camus. His monographs include Une histoire ambivalente: Le dialogueCamus-Dostoïevski (An Ambivalent History: The Camus-Dostoyevsky Dialogue, Paris1996); Writing French Algeria (Oxford 1998), and Francophone Writing in Transition: Algeria1900–1945 (Bern/New York 2005). Currently he is studying memory, forgetting, andcultural identity in the context of colonial Algeria.Aleš Gabrič is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana.An expert on Slovenian cultural policy after 1945, he received his PhD from theUniversity of Ljubljana in 1994. He is the author of four books and three textbooks,as well as numerous journal articles concerning modern Slovenian history, especiallyabout cultural policy, education, and relations between communist authorities andintellectuals. He also teaches Slovenian cultural history at the University of Ljubljana.Aleksandra Jovićević teaches History of World Theatre and Drama and TheatreAnthropology and Performance Theory at the University of Arts in Belgrade andSapienza University in Rome (in the Department of Performing Arts Studies). Shehas published a number of scholarly works in national and international volumesand journals, and recently published Uvod v gledališke študije (Introduction to TheatreStudies, 2006). She served as the Serbian Deputy Minister of Culture (2001–2004) andreceived a Medal of Honour for her cultural cooperation with Italy.