Prof. Dr. Alojzija Zupan Sosič

Alojzija Zupan Sosič (1964) is a full professor of Slovene literature at the Department of Slovene Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian in 1988, and in 1998 in comparative literature and literary theory as an additional subject. She obtained her master's degree with the subject of love and eroticism in contemporary Slovenian poetry, and in 2001 she obtained her doctorate with the subject of the modern Slovenian novel at the end of the century. After graduating, she taught Slovene language and literature at secondary schools in Ljubljana, and in 1998 she was employed as an  assistant for Slovene literature at the Faculty of Arts. Here, since 2002, he has been teaching contemporary Slovenian literature at the Department of Slovenian Studies. She has published books and discussions in Slovenian and other languages; she is also a co-author of high school textbooks and scientific monographs. She edited several anthologies and proceedings of symposia or seminars, and also published four independent scientific monographs, the latest of which is I am reading poems (2025). She chaired the jury for the best Slovenian story (Fabula) and the best Slovenian novel (Kresnik), and also participated in the jury for the Prešeren awards; she is the vice president of the board of directors for the Cankar Award. She led the project entitled Other in Slovenian and Bosnian Literature (1999–2003) and participated in various projects, for six years she was the president of the STU program (within the Center for Slovenian as a Second/Foreign Language at the Faculty of Arts), and she is currently a member of the editorial board of the board of the international journal Slovenica and Ars@humanitas. With her contributions, she participates in international conferences and symposia at home and abroad; as a visiting professor, she lectures at many universities outside her homeland. Her areas of scientific interest are: modern Slovenian narrative, especially the latest Slovenian novel, Slovenian love poetry, women's literature, gender identity, narrative theory and literary interpretation.