Janez Vrečko
Janez Vrečko (born 1946) is a Slovene literary historian and theorist. Life and work. He is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts. He received his PhD in 1986 for his dissertation entitled "Slovenian Historical Avant-Garde and Zenitism". In 1978 he received an MA for his thesis on mimetic and non-mimetic poetics. In 1974 he received a Student Prešeren Award for his graduate thesis. He has been employed in the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory since 1978. He has spent more than two years researching or as  a visiting lecturer at universities in Munich, Zagreb, Belgrade, Katowice, Salzburg, Brussels, St. Petersburg and Vienna. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Nova Gorica, Koper and Maribor. His fields of specialization in research and graduate teaching are European and Slovenian historical Avant-Garde. His extensive monograph on the Slovene avant-garde poet Srečko Kosovel (2011) brought new findings on the influence of Russian Constructivism on its wider European counterpart. His scholarship focuses on the history of the epic, tragedy and novel from Classical Antiquity onwards and on the basic literary concepts such as mimesis, catharsis and inspiration . He is concerned with the theory and history of European lyrics from Baudelaire onwards and with the European poetics from Aristotle to Brecht and Artaud. He is the recipient of the Gold Plaque from the University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Arts Merit Award, the award of the Student Council of the Faculty of Arts for teaching work, the award of the Slovenian Research Agency for the best academic book of the years 2011 and 2014 and the State Zois Certificate of Recognition for scientific and research work in 2014. Selected works. Monographs Parts of monographs/articles Janez Vrečko Janez