PhD in Slavic Studies, research associate
kristina.pranjic@zrc-sazu.si
Kristina Pranjić is a scholar in comparative literature and Russian studies whose research focuses on avant-garde, intermedia, and ecocritical artistic practices. Her work examines transnational and peripheral avant-garde networks in East Central Europe, with particular attention to the relations between art and socio-political contexts. She is interested in early ecological ideas and cosmism, as well as in visual, performative, and material practices, and in the semiotics and philosophy of language. Her research combines literary and art theory, aesthetics, media studies, critical theory, as well as archival and comparative methodologies.
Her current work explores ecocritical and ecofeminist approaches to avant-garde studies and the transversal connections among artistic practices in the Northern Adriatic space. She led a postdoctoral project on the Yugoslav interwar avant-garde, focusing on Dada, and is the author of the monograph Jugoslovanska avantgarda in metropolitanska dada (2024). Her publications include studies on alternative epistemologies of avant-garde art, estrangement, intermediality, abstraction, emancipatory potentials of marginal artistic practices, and the relations between art and environment.
She conceived three international conferences, featuring artistic programmes, dedicated to avant-garde practices (World as Objectlessness; Cosmic Anarchism; Avant-Garde and the End of the World), and co-developed several interdisciplinary art-research projects in pedagogical settings, addressing ecological imaginaries, industrial legacy, experimental artistic practices, and critical approaches to contemporary social issues. She also worked at Radio Študent in the culture and humanities editorial department
As an associate professor at the University of Nova Gorica, she teaches literary theory, European avant-gardes, and ecocriticism, and is a member of the research programme Historical Interpretations of the 20th Century at the Research Centre for Humanities. At the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, she led the modules History and Theory of Art and Media and Discourses in Practice, and at the School of Humanities, she was director of the Literary Studies programme track within the BA Slovenian Studies / Language and Literature in the Digital World and the MA Humanities Studies.
Decentralizacija evropskega avantgardizma in omrežje jugoslovanske avantgarde. Amfiteater: revija za teorijo scenskih umetnosti, 13(1), 122–140 (2025). DOI: 10.51937/Amfiteater-2025-1/122-140
Purg, Peter; Pranjić, Kristina; Čuček Gerbec, Jernej. Toward a collaborative innovation paradigm: maker culture, art thinking, and interdisciplinary education. Creative Industries Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1080/17510694.2025.2525648
Jugoslovanska avantgarda in metropolitanska dada. Ljubljana: Založba Sophia. 2024.
Peresin Meden, Nikita; Pranjić, Kristina; Purg, Peter. Taming the forest: embracing the complexity of art-sci research through microhistory, bioeconomics and intermedia art. Technoetic Arts, 22(1), 57–73 (2024). DOI: 10.1386/tear_00122_1
Germek, Magdalena; Pranjić, Kristina. Percepcija nadrealizma in potencial njegove vizualne ekoepistemologije. V: Černe Oven, Petra (ur.), Vizualna pismenost, 138–149 (2024).
DOI: 10.51938/9789612972868
Purg, Peter; Pranjić, Kristina. Spreminjanje imaginarija napredka in rasti v avantgardnih in intermedijskih umetniških praksah. Primerjalna književnost, 46(3), 21–39 (2023). DOI: 10.3986/pkn.v46.i3.02
Change must come: Yugoslav avant-gardes and metropolitan Dada. V: Bru, Sascha (ur.), Crisis: The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes, 297–312 (2022). DOI: 10.1515/9783110773637-014
The emergence and establishment of Yugoslav Dada: from Prague to Zagreb (1920–1922). Svět literatury, 31(64), 89–103 (2021). DOI: 10.14712/23366729.2021.2.6
Zenitistični koncept barbarogenija kot kritika zahodnoevropske kulture. Primerjalna književnost, 43(3), 139–157 (2020). DOI: 10.3986/pkn.v43.i3.08
Germek, Magdalena; Pranjić, Kristina. Constructing new signifiers with aesthetic intervention: using coal in design. Zonemoda Journal, 10(1s), 121–132 (2020). DOI: 10.6092/issn.2611-0563/10559
Brezpredmetnost in ekonomičnost v poeziji / Objectlessness and economy in poetry. Slavica Tergestina, 22, 50–68 (2019). DOI: 10.13137/2283-5482/24683
All publications (COBISS)
Employments
2025–, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU
2023–, Associate Professor, University of Nova Gorica
2019–2023, Assistant Professor, University of Nova Gorica
2019–2021, Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Media, Ljubljana
Education
PhD, 2018, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, dissertation: Objectlessness of Sound and Image: Bely, Kruchenykh, Malevich
BA, 2013, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Russian Language and Literature, joint thesis: Constructivism and Suprematism – Two Vectors Toward Post-Gravity Theory
Teaching experience
University of Nova Gorica, School of Humanities: Introduction to Literary Studies; Methodology of Literary Scholarship; Humanities Seminar; Research Work; Avant-Garde and Experiment; Ecocriticism; Intermediality in the Avant-Gardes
University of Nova Gorica, School of Arts, 2019–23: Academic Writing; Critical Theory
Faculty of Media, Ljubljana, 2018–22: Media Arts and Graphic Design
University of Klagenfurt, Institute of Slavic Studies, 2018/19, guest lecturer: Poetic and Visual Experiment in Modernism and the Avant-Garde
Scholarships
Active Participation of Outstanding Early-Career Researchers in International Programmes, ARIS (2023)
Promotion of Slovenian Science Abroad, ARIS (2019)
Travel Grant, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, USA (2018)
Nordic Summer Conference Grant, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2018)
Doctoral Fellowship, Foundation of Father Stanislav Škrabec, Slovenia (2016/17)
Research Fellowship, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia (2016)
Erasmus+ Research Traineeship, University Paris 8, France (2016/17)
Erasmus Mundus Basileus Doctoral Research Scholarship, University of Belgrade, Serbia (2014/15)
Erasmus Research Traineeship, University of Konstanz, Germany (2012/13)
Awards
Prešeren Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2013)
Nomination for best doctoral dissertation in the humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2018/19)
Research interests
Avant-garde studies in Eastern and Central Europe, intermedia and experimental art, ecocritical and ecofeminist approaches, cosmism and early ecological thought, marginal and peripheral artistic practices, cultural and artistic cartographies of South-Eastern Europe