Prof. Marko Marinčič

– Born October 15, 1968

Academic Education

– 1993 BA, 1996 MA, University of Ljubljana

– 1999 PhD in Latin Literature (Hellenistic Epyllion in Rome, supervisor Kajetan Gantar)

Employment

(Department of Classics, University of Ljubljana)

– 1993/94 Librarian

– 1994-1999 Tutor in classics

– 1999-2004 Assistant Professor

– 2004-2009 Associate Professor

– 2009- Professor of Latin and Greek literature

Visiting scholar

– 1996-1999, per intervalla, visiting doctoral student, University of Vienna, Institute of Classical Philology (research grants from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Institute for Eastern and Southeastern Europe)

– 2008 Plumer Visiting Fellow, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

– 2019 University of Washington, Department of Classics

– Erasmus exchange scholar: Athens (2013, 2015), Milano (2015)

List of invited lectures and conference papers: see Bibliography

Research project leadership (Slovenian Research Agency)

– Tradition of Allegory in Epic (2001–2004)

– Semantics of Myth in Latin and Romance Literatures (2009–2012)

– Empire and Transformation of Genre in Roman Literature (2020-)

Conference organisation

Reading Authors’ Lives. Ljubljana: Department of Classics, June 19–20, 2009.

The Odyssey in the Latin West. Ljubljana: Department of Classics, Gallery of Modern Art, European Commission: DG Translation, November 14–15, 2014.

Editorships

– 2008- co-editor of Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca

– member of editorial/advisory boards of Incontri di filologia classica (Unversity of Triest); Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe (Ca' Foscari, Venice); past activities: Centopagine (Triest); Vergilius (Vergilian Society, USA)