Prof. Dr. Branka Kalenić Ramšak

Branka Kalenić Ramšak is a full professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She completed primary school and classical grammar school in Ljubljana, obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Zagreb, and earned her PhD in Literary Studies in 1996 from the University of Ljubljana.

She has been a visiting lecturer at various universities abroad, including those in Aachen, Venice, Buenos Aires, Havana, Madrid, Málaga, Tokyo, Trieste, Udine, Vilnius, Zagreb, Zaragoza, and other university centers around the world.

She publishes scholarly articles on contemporary Spanish and Hispanic American literature, as well as on the Spanish literature of the Golden Age. In her scholarly publications, she also focuses on the field of literary criticism and the reception of Spanish literature in the Slovenian literary studies context. She participates in various domestic and international research projects.

She has led several projects that introduced the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language into the Slovenian educational space. She contributed to two important lexicographical projects, which resulted in the Spanish-Slovene and Slovene-Spanish dictionaries. She is the chief editor, editor-in-chief, or co-editor of several scholarly journals. She has organized numerous international scholarly conferences.

From 2013 to 2017, she served two terms as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. In 2011, the Spanish government awarded her the Order of Isabella the Catholic for her merits in fostering cultural ties between Slovenia and Spain. From 2017 to 2018, she was Vice-Rector of the University of Ljubljana for educational affairs.

From 2017 to 2022, she was elected for the first time to the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia as a representative of universities, higher education institutions, and higher vocational colleges. In the current term of the National Council from 2022 to 2027, she was elected to this position for a second time.