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Short biography:

Graduated from the Department of General Literature and Theory of Literature of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade 1982; received the M. A. with the work “Literary Views of Paul de Man and the Theory of Deconstruction” in 1987 at the same faculty, and Ph.D. with the thesis “Theoretical Problems of Reading as the Basis of a Modern Conception of Literature” in 2001 at the same faculty. Between 1984 and 2001 he worked as a scientific researcher within the Project for Theory of the Institute for Literature and Art in Belgrade; between 2001 and 2007 works as a non-regular professor at the Faculty of Philology (Department for General Literature and Theory of Literature), and from 2007 as a regular professor of semiology at the Faculty of Media and Communications of the Singidunum University in Belgrade.

Published books:

Antinomije kritike (1982), Slučaj Niče (1997), ABC dekonstrukcije (1998), Ljuba ili o etici (1999), Predavanja o čitanju (2000), Pesništva: Prilozi pesničkoj ontologiji Martina Hajdegera (2001), Moderno shvatanje književnosti (2002), Istina apokalipse: Filozofija i pesništvo na “poslednjem sudu” (2003), Šta je teorija? (2006), Od znaka do smisla (2007).

Lectured in USA (Yale University) and UK (Sheffield University).


Courses:

From Sign to Sense (I year of primary studies)

Introduction to the Media Communications (II year of primary studies)

Digital Media Culture (II year of primary studies)

Techniques of Academic Work (I and II year of master studies)

Culture of Digital Communications (I year of primary studies)
The course includes the survey of today’s state and use of digital and computer communications, first of all Internet, with reference to their function in today’s media. Attendant of the course should take a hold of the basic notions, genres and  modes of digital communication, comprehend their application and use, and master the elementary techniques of digital communication (text processing, e-mail, blog, Web, browsers, electronic data bases etc.)

Semiology of Media Communications (I and II year of master studies) 
The course includes the survey of major theoretical and methodological positions in contemporary semiology of media. Attendant should grasp the basic notions of contemporary semiology of media communications and take an insight into major currents of today’s theory of media and communications, from Shanon to Jacobson, through Benjamin, McLuhan and Debord, to Baudrillard, Debray, Bourdieu and Derrida.