Ph.D. Aleksandar Prokopiev

Date and place of birth: 24.02.1953, Skopje
E-mail address: saprok@hotmail.com.mk
Title: Research Councilor
Specific area of research interest: Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature
Ph.D. thesis: Philological faculty Blazhe Koneski– Skopje, The Fairytale as a Genre (upon the examples of Macedonian fairytales), 1995
Post-graduate studies: Sorbonne, Paris and the Philological faculty in Belgrade
Title of the Master’s thesis: Fantastic elements in the Macedonian Fairytale,
Philological faculty in Belgrade, 1981
Graduate studies: Philological faculty – Belgrade, Department: General and Comparative literature, 1977
Research projects
Participation
History of Macedonian literature
Interactions between the Macedonian and the world literature
Critical models in the Macedonian literature in the light of the world literary-theoretical thought
Imagology – the image of the Other in the contemporary Macedonian literature
Head researcher of:
The phenomenon of love and its creative implications in the South Slavic literatures in the 20th century
Macedonian contemporary prose in Balkan context
Literary spaces – “our” and “foreign” in the Macedonian contemporary literature and culture
Research stays
Visiting Professor of the Universities of Oxford, Bucharest, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Ljubljana etc.
Participation in conferences
Participated in more than 100 conferences in significant research and educational centers in the country and abroad.
Monographs:
Was Kalimah a Postmodernist?, Skopje, 1994
Fairytale on the Road, Skopje, 1996,
Postmodern Babylon, Skopje, 2004,
Borges and the Computer, Skopje, 2005
Research and professional papers in the periodic publications
Author of numerous reviews, professional reviews, essays in the periodical publications and the daily newspapers in the country and abroad.
His essays have been translated in English, Polish, Czech, Japanese, Serbian, Slovenian and Bulgarian languages.
Membership in scientific and other professional associations
Association of Comparative Literature of Macedonia, Association of Independent Writers in Macedonia, Macedonian PEN-center
Social and professional duties
Editor in Chief of Spectrum 35-36/2000
Member of several Editorial Boards of significant magazines in the area of literary science: Orient Express (Oxford, UK) World haiku (Kyoto, Japan), Literary Context, Koreni, Nashe pismo and SUM.