Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: aleksandra.jovicevic@uniroma1.it
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Aleksandra Jovićević is a full Professor of theatre and performance studies at the Department SARAS (History, Anthropology, Religions, Arts, Performance), at La Sapienza University of Rome, since 2007 and a Visiting Professor at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Aleksandra Jovićević was the Deputy Minister of Culture (2001-2004) of the Republic of Serbia and for her cultural cooperation with Italy, she was awarded the medal of the President of the Italian Republic, Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, with the title Commendatore (2005).

Aleksandra Jovićević graduated at the University of Arts in Belgrade (dramaturgy), and received her doctorate at the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she obtained both an MA and a PhD, under the supervision of Richard Schechner and Brooks McNamara. Her doctoral thesis, Orson Welles and the Theatre, 1946-1960, has been published in various international journals and books. During her academic career, Aleksandra Jovićević has won several scholarships and in 2006/2007 she won a Fulbright Visiting Fellowship at Yale University, New Haven, USA.

Professor Jovićević teaches history of theatre theories, and aesthetics and politics of performance. For many years, she has been working in the field of twentieth-century theatre, avant-garde, performance studies, where she has published a number of books, articles and essays in various journals and books in Serbian, English, Italian, Slovak, Slovenian, Dutch, Polish, German. She founded the Annals of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Anthology of Essays by FDA, in 1998, where she is now in the international editorial board. Professor Jovićević is on the editorial board of the academic journal, Biblioteca teatrale, (A level academic journal), where she edited (with Annalisa Sacchi) the double volume ( BT 91/92) in 2012, dedicated to new theatre direction and new performance practices. In 2021 and 2022, Aleksandra Jovićević edited three volumes of Biblioteca teatrale, dedicated to the PhD in music and performance of the SARAS department ( BT 136, 137, 138). Prof Jovićević is the editor of the series Performance Studies: Aesthetics and Politics of Performance for Bulzoni editore in Rome, for which she edited the book by Richard Schechner, Il nuovo terzo mondo dei performance studies (The New Third World of Performance Studies, 2017). Among her latest publications: “Postmodern Antigones: Women in Black and Performance of Involuntary Memory”, in Theatre and Cultural Performances in the Context of Yugoslav Wars , ( Palgrave MacMillan , 2019); Orson Welles and the Theatre. Shakespeare and Beyond. (Bulzoni editore, 2022); “ Aby Warburg's Performed Imageries in the Mnemosyne Atlas: The Unusual Birth of Performance Studies” in Pathographies of Modernity with Aby Warburg and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2024); and L’architettura cognitiva di performance studies (The Cognitive Architecture of Performance Studies, forthcoming, Luca Sossella editore, Rome, 2025).

Aleksandra Jovićević translated into Serbian and edited the book by Eugenio Barba and Nicola Savarese , A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer ( Dizionario dell'antropologia teatrale. L'arte segreta dell'attore, Institut FDU, Belgrade, 1997 ). During the NATO bombardment of Belgrade in 1999, Aleksandra Jovićević translated texts by Biljana Srbljanović for the Italian daily newspaper La Reppublica, texts that were later published as Diary from Belgrade , Baldini & Castold, 2000.. From 1999 to 2001 Aleksandra Jovićević wrote a column for the German daily newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, under the title, “Letters from Belgrade”. Aleksandra Jovićević was the director of the Institute of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, from 1997-2000; member of the advisory board of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam, from 2008-2011; president of the Dragan Klaić Fellowship Foundation from 2013-2023; member of the Scientific Committee of the research, from 2015-2021 “In Praise of Community : Shared Creativity in Arts and Politics in Italy, 1959 to 1979”, coordinated by Prof. Annalisa Sacchi ( IUAV ) and funded by the European Union.
Professor Jovićević was a vice coordinator of the Phd program in Performance and Music from 2015 to 2021.