Ph.D. Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser

Date and place of birth: 2.09.1963, Shtip
E-mail address: elzeser@sonet.com.mk
Title: Senior Research Fellow
Specific area of research interest: theory of literature and comparative literature, comparative research of the Slavic literatures, intertextuality, dialogism, ludism, short stories
Ph.D. thesis: Philological faculty Blazhe Koneski– Skopje, Ludistic actions in the contemporary short story (2003)
Post-graduate studies: Philological faculty Blazhe Koneski– Skopje, Theoretical-methodological principles of Mikhail Bakhtin (1995)
Graduate studies: Philological faculty Blazhe Koneski– Skopje, Department General and Comparative literature, 1986
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
Macedonian contemporary prose in Balkan context
Resemblances between the Macedonian literature and the other Balkan literatures
Literary spaces – “Our” and “Foreign” in the Macedonian contemporary literature and culture
Participation in conferences
Participated in numerous conferences in the country and abroad, among which Prague (Czech Republic), Nitra (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria), and Florence (Italy).
Monographs:
Pulsing Philology: Theoretical-methodological principles of Mikhail Bakhtin, Skopje: Kultura and Institute of Macedonian literature at the Philological faculty “Blazhe Koneski”, 1997
Igropis: Essays on the Literary Ludism, Skopje: Magor, 2004
Stojmenska-Elzeser, S.; Mironska-Hristovska, V.; Avramovska, N.; Georgievska-Jakovleva, L.: Comparative Literature (Textbook for IV year of Reformed Gymnasia Education – elective subject), Skopje: Prosvetno delo, 2004
Comparative Slavistics, Skopje: Institute of Macedonian literature, 2005
Research and professional papers in the periodic publications
Author of more than 80 research papers, published in the periodical publications and the daily newspapers in Macedonia and abroad.
Membership in scientific and other professional associations
Association of Comparative Literature of Macedonia, National Slavistic Committee
Social and professional duties
President of the Association of Comparative Literature of Macedonia
Editor in Chief of the Journal Spectrum 43-44/2004
Lector in Macedonian language and literature at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic(1997-2000)