Igor Maver#
| Membership Number: | 3548 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVENIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2001 Full Professor of Literatures in English in the Department of English at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia
- since 2008 Chair of the literature section in the Department of English
- Since 2004 Head of the American Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Programme at the Faculty of Arts/Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
- Since 1998 Associate and Executive Editor of the international scholarly literary studies journal Acta neophilologica (published by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)
- Member of the editorial board of the international scholarly journal The Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (AHCI, published by Australasian Language and Literature Association/Maney Publishing, UK)
- Member of the editorial board of the scholarly interdisciplinary journal TransPostCross, published by the University of Bologna, Italy
- Member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Il Tolomeo, published by the University of Venice in Italy.
- Member of the Scientific committee awarding National Prizes for university theses on Slovenian emigration and across-border space, appointed by the Minister for Slovenians Abroad of the Republic of Slovenia (8 years)
- Since September 2012 an international external member of the Italian National committee (ASN) for elections and the promotion into Full University Professors of English for the Republic of Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Post-colonial literary-theory and post-colonial literatures in English
- Canadian and Australian literatures and cultures
- English and American literatures (Shakespeare, Anglophone novel)
- Diasporic literatures and cultures in English, diasporic studies theory
- American transnational studies
- Translation studies in Central European space
Honours and Awards
- 2011 "The Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Award" (Scotland's National Academy of Science and Letters).
- Member and President of the Scientific committee awarding the National Prize for Theses on Slovenian Emigration and Across-Border Space, nominated annually by the Minister for Slovenians Abroad of the Republic of Slovenia (8 years)
- 2005 Recipient of the Faculty Enrichment Programme Award by the ICCS (International Council for Canadian Studies), the Government of Canada
- 2004 Member of IAUPE (The International Association of University Professors of English)
- 1996 Research Fellow at the University of Sydney/Department of English, recipient of a research grant from the Australian government
- 1994 French/European Commission research grant of the Robert Schumann Foundation
