Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: aleksandra.jovicevic@uniroma1.it
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Aleksandra Jovićević is a Full Professor of Performing Arts at the Department of History of Art and Performance at La Sapienza University of Rome, since 2007, and Vice-coordinator of the PhD program in Music and Performance, at the same university, since 2015. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Belgrade University of Arts, where she has been teaching since 1993 and where she became full professor in 2004. Aleksandra Jovićević is the president of the Dragan Klaić Fellowship Foundation established in 2013; and is also a member of the scientific committee of research, “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.

Aleksandra Jovićević studied at the Belgrade University of Art (Dramaturgy), and at the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, USA; where he obtained both her MA and PhD degrees, under the supervision of Richard Schechner and Brooks McNamara. Her doctoral thesis, Orson Welles and the Theatre, 1946-1960, was published in various international journals and books. During his career, Aleksandra Jovićević has obtained several scholarships, including Fulbright Visiting Fellowship in 2006-2007, at Yale University, New Haven, USA.

Professor Jovićević teaches history of theatrical theories, theories and practices of contemporary performance, aesthetics and politics of performance. For many years, she has worked in the field of Twentieth century theatre, avant-garde, performance studies, where she has published various books, articles and essays in various magazines and books in Serbian, English, Italian, Slovak, Slovenian, Dutch, Polish, and German. She has also founded An Anthology of Essays by FDA, in 1998, where she is now on the international editorial board. Professor Jovićević is also on the editorial board of the academic journal, Biblioteca teatrale. Prof Jovićević is an editor of book series, Performance Studies: Aesthetic and Political Performance, for the Bulzoni publisher, for which she edited the first book of the series, Richard Schechner, The New Third World of Performance Studies (2017). Her essay, "Postmodern Antigones: Women in Black and Performance of Involuntary Memory", has just been published in the book, Theater and Cultural Performances in the Context of Yugoslav Wars, edited by Stefan Hulfeld et al., Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.

Her publication, in Serbian, Introduction to Performance Studies (Uvod u studije performansa, with Ana Vujanović, Fabrika knjiga, Beograd, 2007), has been translated into Slovak and Italian and will be published by Bulzoni publisher. Aleksandra Jovićević has translated into Serbian and edited a book by Eugenio Barba and Nicola Savarese, A Dictionary of Theater Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer (Institut FDU, 1997); translated into Italian the theatrical text by Biljana Srbljanović, "The Trilogy of Belgrade", in The Trilogy of Belgrade and other texts, Ubulibri, 2001; and the book, Diario da Belgrado, Baldini & Castoldi, 2000. From 1999 to 2001 she wrote a column for the German daily, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Letters from Belgrade.

Aleksandra Jovićević was a member of the Advisory Board of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam, from 2008-2011; Director of the Institute of Theater, Cinema, Radio and Television of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, from 1997 to 2000.

Aleksandra Jovićević was Vice-Minister of culture (2001-2004) of the Serbian Republic and for her cultural collaboration with Italy, received the medal of President of the Italian Republic, Order of the star of Italian solidarity, title Commendatore (2005).