IVANA ŽIVANČEVIĆ – SEKERUŠ
Education:
Ph.D.
 		The University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy (2000)
Title: ‘Journal Kolo (1842-1852) in the Illyrian Literatures‘
LL.M.The University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy (1988)
Title: ‘Byron in Croatian Literature’
B.Soc.Sc. The Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy, Yugoslavian and General Literature (1986)
Current academic post / related positions:
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Assistant professor at Department of Serbian and comparative literatures at Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad (since 2000)
- Guest professor at the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Political Science, the University of Münster (2004)
- Lecturer at the International Summer school of European studies, University of Novi Sad (2004)
- Lecturer at the Feminine Studies and Research “ Mileva Einstein“ in Novi Sad (2004)
- Guest researcher at Department of European Studies and the Department of Modern Literatures, the University of Amsterdam (2003/04)
- Member of the Board of European Studies, the University of Novi Sad (since 2003)
- Lecturer at postgraduate studies at the Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy (since 2002)
- Guest researcher at the Department of European Studies and the Department of Modern Literatures in Amsterdam (2001/02)
- Guest professor at the Department of Slavic languages and at the Department of cultural studies at the University of Halle, Germany (2001)
- Head of the Department of Serbian Literatures and Language at the Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy
Foreign languages:
Serbian (native), Croatian (read, speak, write), English (read, speak, write), French (read, speak, write), German (read, speak, write), Italian (read), Russian (read), Poland (read)
Current research projects and activities:
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 Yugoslav Literatures in the Context of European Civilisation (a project of the Republic Ministry), since 1988
- Poetics of Gift and Giving in Yugoslav Literatures (a project of the Republic Ministry)
- Genres in Serbian Literatures. Origin and Poetic of Form (a project of the Republic Ministry)
- Cultural Nationalism on the Balkans in the 20th Century (Holland)
- Image of the Other in Teaching of Literatures on the Balkans (Bulgaria)
- Slavonic Literatures after 1989 (Poland)
- TEMPUS Joint European Project N°: UM_JEP-16090 "University Science Parks - Organisational Framework"
- "TEMPUS Joint European Project N°: CD_JEP-17008: "Curriculum Development for the School of European Studies at the University of Nis
Selected recent publications:
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Parallels of Yugoslav Literatures, ITP Zmaj, Novi Sad, 2004, pp. 273
- Ivana Živančević-Sekeruš et all., Da opoznaem svoite susedi, Obrazum na "drugia" v literaturata na Balkanite, Centar za obrazovatelni iniciativi, Sofia, 2002,  pp. 431
- Croatian Writers in the Byronic Mould, The Modern Language Review, London, vol. 87, no. 1, 1992, pp. 143-156
- The Krakowiak in Croatian and Slovene Poetry, The Slavonic and the East European Review, London, vol. 71, no. 2, 1993, pp. 278-286
- Miroslav Krleza and Thomas Man, Matica Srpska Digest of Slavonic Language, notebook 52, 1997, pp. 249-257
- Representation of the Other in the Literary Education of the Balkans, in: Acts of the Conference Codifications et symboles des cultures nationales, Brno, 13-15 June 2002, Masarykova univerzita v Brne, 2003, pp. 67-73
- Women's Literary Magazines - a Place for Dialogue or a Place of Isolation? The Case of Serbia, in: Chancen und Grenzen des -Dialogs zwischen den Geschlechtern , Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main-Berlin-Bern-Bruxelles-New York-Oxford-Wien 2003, pp. 103-111, 242
- Literature - Magic and/or Medicine?, in: Literarni izzivi, Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts, The University in Maribor, Faculty of Pedagogy in Maribor, 2003, pp. 381-389  
History of South Slavic literatures of the 19th and 20th century: imagological comparative research of the image of the Other in Serbian and Croatian literature, cultural and ethnical stereotypes, feminine writings