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Short biography:

Dubravka Đurić completed her studies at and received the M.A. degree from the Department of General Literature and Theory of Literature at the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade, and doctorated at the Faculty of Philosophy of Novi Sad. She is concerned with theory of culture, theory of media, theory of modern and postmodern poetry, theory of gender, artistic and poetic performance.

In the status of a lecturer and visiting lecturer she taught at the Center for Women’s Studies, at AOM, the Faculty of Drama, as well as on the faculties of SUNY-Buffalo and UCSD, San Diego, Ljubljana and Kopar.

In the ‘90s she wrote literary critique on a regular basis, as well as culture-commentaries for Borba, Naša Borba and Nezavisne, a newspaper from Novi Sad. She edited and translated a number of theoretical magazine specials in the field of theory of poetry and theory of art. In ‘80s she was a member of a non-formal theoretical-artistic Community for Exploration of the Space and participated in editing of its magazine Mentalni prostor. One of the animators and editors of the magazine ProFemina. In the Association for Women’s Initiative (AŽIN) she started the AŽIN’s School of Poetry and Theory.

Published a host of criticisms and studies on poetry, art and dance, as well as books Jezik, poezija, postmodernizam (2001), Govor druge (2006),  co-edited the anthologies Impossible Histories - Historical Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia 1918-1991 (2003, 2006).

Courses:

Experimental Artistic Practices and Media (II year of primary studies)
Academic Writing (I year of primary studies)

Rhetoric and Stylistics (I year of primary studies)

The course is conceived as a succinct survey of classical, modern i postmodern rhetoric and stylistics. Apart from teaching the basic notions, the education deals with writing exercises and oral presentations with the goal of mastering the techniques of oral and written address.

Introduction to Popular Culture (II year of primary studies)

The course includes the survey of understanding of the popular culture in the framework of diverse schools of theory from XIX century until today.

Materialist Readings of Media Culture (I year of the master studies)

The course is about the issues of social, ideological and political representations in media culture. The starting point are early semiotic analyses of the visual (Roland Barthes), and then it centers on the materialist readings of media culture of the British theorist Raymond Williams and Stuart Hole and American theorist Douglas Kellner. That way the attendees of the course are introduce to the issues of materialist reading of media culture where the media representations are construed as means of articulation of ideological positions.