Academy Members

Kolar Mario

Academic titles:

• associate professor, Doctor of Science

Institutions:

• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Department of Croatian Studies

Membership in Academy:

• associate member – Department of Literature (5/16/2024 – …)

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Curriculum Vitae

Mario Kolar is a literary critic and university professor. He was born in 1981 in Koprivnica. He completed primary school in Molve and gymnasium in Đurđevac. In 2008 he graduated in Croatian studies, Slavic studies, and library science at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where he earned a PhD in philology (theory and history of literature) in 2013.

From 2008 to 2018, he worked as a Croatian language teacher and librarian in several schools and other institutions. Since 2018, he has been teaching courses in modern and contemporary Croatian literature at the Department of Croatian Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka.

He has published five scholarly and five popular books and around one hundred studies, essays, and reviews. He has edited selected works of several Croatian writers and is a (co-)editor of several literary and scientific books. He is the principal investigator of the research project “Croatian and Anglophone Crime Fiction: Text, Context, Translation” (2025–2029, funded by NextGeneration EU). He has pursued professional development abroad and published papers and delivered presentations at international conferences (Austria, Italy, Poland, Spain, South Korea, etc.). He is a member of the editorial boards of the scholarly journals “Fluminensia” and “Podravina”, and previously served on the editorial boards of the literary journals “Artikulacije” and “Republika”.

As a student, he received the Rector’s Award of the University of Zagreb, and he is also the recipient of the “Julije Benešić” Award for literary criticism. In 2024, he was elected an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Mario Kolar – personal page

Mario Kolar – CroRIS

 

Bibliography

Scholarly books:

• Nuspojave čitanja [Side Effects of Reading], Koprivnica,
• Između tradicije i subverzije: časopis Kaj i kajkavska postmoderna [Between Tradition and Subversion: Kaj Magazine and Kajkavian Postmodernism], Zagreb,
• Izazovi čitanja: rasprave i ogledi iz novije hrvatske književnosti [Challenges of Reading: Studies and Essays on Modern Croatian Literature], Samobor, 2018.
• Teksture i strukture: rasprave i ogledi iz novije hrvatske književnosti [Textures and Structures: Studies and Essays on Modern Croatian Literature], Zagreb, 2023.
• Glas i jeka: odjeci suvremene hrvatske književnosti [Voice and Echo: Echoes of Contemporary Croatian Literature], Koprivnica, 2023.

Popular books:

• Tin: ilustrirana biografija Tina Ujevića [ilustrated biography of Tin Ujević], Samobor, 2023. (illustrated by Tomislav Zagoda)
• Fran: ilustrirana biografija Frana Galovića [ilustrated biography of Fran Galović], Samobor, 2023. (illustrated by Igor Lepčin)
• Pisac sukobljenih svjetova: ilustrirana biografija Ive Andrića [Writer of conflicting worlds: an illustrated biography of Ivo Andrić], Samobor, 2024. (illustrated by Tomislav Zagoda)
• Pisac smiješnog i ozbiljnog: ilustrirana biografija Slavka Kolara [Writer of the funny and the serious: an illustrated biography of Slavko Kolar], Samobor, 2024. (illustrated by Mihael Klanjčić)

Editor:

• • Dubravko Ivančan: Izabrana djela [Selected works], Koprivnica, 2017.
  • Fran Galović: Dok večer se zmrači: izbor iz djela [Until the Evening Gets Dark: Selected Works], Koprivnica, 2020.
  • Divan užas: izabrani radovi o Slavku Kolaru (1917. – 2021.) [Wonderful Horror: Selected Works about Slavko Kolar (1917 – 2021)], Čazma, 2021.
  • Slavko Kolar: Izabrana djela [Selected works], Zagreb, 2023.
  • Ivan Golub: Knjiga poučaka [Lesson book], Koprivnica, 2024.