Prof. Dr. Igor Maver

Dr. Igor Maver

Full Professor of  English and American Literatures

- Chair of the  Literature section, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU

- Director of the Interdisciplinary North-American Studies PhD Programme, University of Ljubljana

- Elected member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts SAZU, Ljubljana

- Elected full member of The European Academy of Sciences Academia Europaea, London, established through the British Academy

- Editor-in-Chief of the international scholarly cultural and literary studies journal published in English Acta neophilologica (Ljubljana University Press), indexed in the most important international databases (Scopus, etc). He is also a reviewer and co-editor of several other Scopus-indexed international scholarly journals, mostly in the EU.

Education and professional activities:

- He graduated in English and French languages and literatures  from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, and obtained his MA degree in the field of contact literature and cultural mediation of British and American literature in Europe at the same university. After research as a doctoral student at the University of Queensland in Brisbane for one year in Australia under the supervision of Professor Laurie Hergenhan (1989/90) from the U of Queensland, he received his PhD at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana (1990) in the field of the affiliations of American and some European poetic traditions with contemporary Australian poetry.

- He taught and researched American literature at the University of California at Davis (USA) twice and one semester as a Visiting teaching Fellow at the University of Sydney (1996). He has given several series of visiting lectures at various European universities, the University of Bonn, University of Bologna, University of London, University of Lecce, University of Barcelona, University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Split, University of Venice, University of Vienna.

-He has been teaching to date at the Department of English of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, EU for 35 years, as a Full Professor since 2001.

Teaching experience, courses taught and fields of teaching:

1. 1. He has taught on the various aspects of Anglophone/British literatures and cultures in the Department of English at the University of Ljubljana, University of Vienna and earlier at the University of California at Davis, since 1987: British poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, Australian literature and culture, W. Shakespeare and renaissance drama, Canadian literature, post-colonial literatures and the relevant theory in English, transnational American literature, diasporic Anglophone literatures.

1. 1. He has been teaching as a Visiting Professor of American and English literature in the Department of English of the University of Vienna (off and on during the years 2015-2017), Austria.

Scholarly publications:

He has published 6 monographs and has edited 9 books of essays also as an author himself (published in Australia, Great Britain, Austria, Germany, USA, and Slovenia) and over six hundred scholarly studies and articles.

Monographs with him as the only author (a selection of books):

Letters by the Slovenian Missionary Marcus Antonius Kappus to the Habsburg Monarchy Including the 1701 Map of California. Vienna: Oesterreichische Academie der Wissenschaften Verlag/Austrian Academy of Sciences Press in Vienna, 2023.

Selected Essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Contemporary Australian Literature between Europe and Australia, (Sydney studies in society and culture, 18). Sydney: University of Sydney Association for studies in society and culture; A Monograph published by the Department of English at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Sydney, Australia, 1999.

Readings in Contemporary Australian Poetry, (German-Australian studies, vol. 12). Bern: Lang Verlag, 1997.

English Poetry and Prose. Ljubljana: Ljubljana University Press, 2005. 

Essays on Australian and Canadian Literature. Ljubljana: Ljubljana University Press, 2000.