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Jana Pocrnja
Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Literature, January 2025 - January 2026
Ph.D., Spanish/Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Vienna
M.A., French Literature, Sorbonne University (Paris IV)
Mag. Phil., French Language, Literature, and Culture (with a combination of Philosophy and a certificate in German Language and Culture Teaching), University of Vienna
Mag. Phil., Spanish/Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Vienna
Jana Pocrnja holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Vienna and is currently a Max Kade Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Comparative Literature. Her ongoing research explores the intersection between philosophy and literature, with a particular focus on the concept of poetic reasoning in the works of María Zambrano. Previously, she has conducted research on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish/Latin American and French literature, as well as literary theory, particularly in the field of poetology and reader’s response theory.