Education
Sava Damjanov graduated from the University of Novi Sad in 1980, and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1996.
Sava Damjanov graduated from the University of Novi Sad in 1980, and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1996.
At the same university, under the mentorship of Milorad Pavić. He edited texts by the 18th, 19th and 20th century Serbian authors for publication. In the 1990s, he was the editor of the magazine for world literature called Pismo (Letter), and Sveti Dunav (Saint Danube), a magazine dedicated to Central European culture.
He is also the editor of "Biblioteka srpske fantastike" (Collection of Serbian Fantastic Fiction), as well as the series called "The Novi Sad Manuscript".
During the winter term of 2001/2002., Damjanov taught at the Department of Slavistics at the University Tuebingen. He was also a guest lecturer at the Universities in Regensburg, Freiburg, Berlin, Halle, Trier, Göttingen, Bonn, Krakow, Wrocław, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Łódź, Opolе, Veliko Trnovo, Ljubljana and Skopje.
His texts have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, Slovakian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Romanian and Macedonian.
His scientific research is directed primarily towards fantastic fiction, erotic and linguistically experimental strata in Serbian tradition, reception theory, Postmodernism and Comparative Studies.
