Boris Previšić
Boris Previšić (born April 11, 1972 in Richterswil ) is a Swiss literary scholar and musician . He is SNSF professor for literary and cultural studies at the University of Lucerne and director of the Institute Cultures of the Alps.
Life
After graduating from the long-term grammar school in Wetzikon , Previšić obtained an orchestral diploma in Winterthur (1996) and studied with Felix Renggli at the Basel Music Academy with a focus on chamber music and the philosophy of culture. Before Previšić devoted himself to literary and cultural studies , he refined his interpretative skills in new and contemporary music as well as on the Traverso at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris with Gilles Burgos. In 2001 he founded pre-art together with Matthias Arter to promote contemporary music from Slovenia to Uzbekistan.
Previšić completed his studies in modern German, French and comparative literature at the University of Zurich after a guest stay at Cornell University in 2005 with a doctorate on Hölderlin's rhythm. Previšić examines discursive and narratological constructions of identity, in particular by analyzing the Balkans as a reflection of European identity. He devoted himself to this topic as a visiting researcher and visiting professor in Berlin , Vienna and Zagreb . The venia legendi at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Basel followed in 2014 after the habilitation thesis «Literatur topographiert» .
During his time at the University of Lucerne, Previšić once again took up a musical subject in literary studies with a decidedly cultural studies focus. In his research project “Mood and Polyphony: Musical Paradigms in Literature and Culture” he traced a history of the unevenly tempered moods that were established in the 17th century and transferred to aesthetics and physiology in the 18th century as a central dimension of meaning.
Since 2018, Previsic has been dedicated to climate policy issues, especially in connection with the future of the Alps and with a land-based, upscaled carbon dioxide re-binding in biomass.
Works
A full list of scientific publications can be found on Previšić's website of the University of Lucerne.
- CO2: five past twelve. How we can prevent climate collapse. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2020.
- with Silvan Moosmüller: Polyphony and Narration WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2020.
- “It's hot all over Europe ...” Imperial legacies from Herder to Handke. Kadmos, Berlin 2017.
- Topographed literature. The Balkans and the Post-Yugoslav Wars in the crosshairs of the storytelling. Kadmos, Berlin 2014.
- Holderlin's rhythm. A manual. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
- Gotthard fantasies - a blossom harvest from science and literature. Here and now, Baden 2016.
- with Silvan Moosmüller and Laure colon stone (eds.): Moods and polyphony of the Enlightenment. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017.
- with Martina Baleva: The Balkans do not exist. Inheritances in Southeast Europe. Böhlau, Vienna 2016.
- with Thomas Grob and Andrea Zink: Narrated mobility in Eastern Europe. (Post) imperial spaces between experience and imagination. Narr, Tübingen 2013.
- with Evi Fountoulakis: The guest as a stranger. Narrative Alterity in Literature. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011.
- The literature of literary theory. Collection 10. Lang, Bern 2010.
- The assassination attempt in Sarajevo in 1914. Event and story. Hohesufer, Hanover 2014.
Web links
- Boris Previšić on the website of the University of Lucerne
- Boris Previšić at pre-art.ch
- Institute of the Cultures of the Alps
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Previšić, Boris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss literary scholar and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Richterswil |