Bio-bibliographical notes on members
Jelena Lužina
(26 May 1950, Dubrovnik); theatre scientist and professor at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Skopje. She graduated in Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb, Croatia in 1972. Received her MA in 1993 and her Ph.D. in 1995 at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. She is the author of more than three hundred theoretical studies and essays in the area of theatre science and theory of literature, as well as several monographs (books and anthologies of the Macedonia drama and dramaturgy: Theory of Play and Theatre (1998); Macedonian Bloody Wedding 100 Years Later (2000); Ten Modern Macedonian Plays (anthology of Macedonian plays in English, 2001). She is also the author of the books The Macedonian Folk Play (1996); New Macedonian Plays (1996); Theatralics (2000). She has inspired and led a number of scientific and research theatrical projects -- Database of Macedonian Data; Dictionary of Theatre Terminology; Encyclopaedia of the Theatre in Macedonia, and other projects. She has organised and led several distinguished theatre science symposia in Macedonia and outside it. She has prepared and edited some theatre/theatre science collections: The Macedonian Drama Dramaturgy Between the Tradition and Modernity (1998); Macedonian Theatre Critics (1999); Acting and Directing in the Macedonian Theatre (2000); Essays on the History of the Macedonian Theatre (2001). She has been working on the Faculty of Drama Art in Skopje since 1990, first as a teaching assistant, and now as professor of Macedonian Plays and Theatre. She has been teaching Theory and Methodology of Theatrological Research at graduate level since 1999.
