Ivana Perica

Caponeu Team Member

Ivana Perica, PhD, is a Research Assistant at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL). As a postdoctoral researcher, she is associated with the ZfL, where she organised the First annual conference of the CAPONEU consortium together with other Berlin team members. Together with the rest of the team, she is also organising three workshops, leading a three-year book club on “Politics and Literature” and preparing a collective monograph on selected political novels of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. She is working on a monograph with the working title How to read a political novel.

Her research is concerned with the relationship between literary writing and politics and the intersections between literary and political theory. She focuses mainly on 20^th- and 21^st-century literature, with particular attention to literary public spheres and the socialist third way as it has evolved in the literary imaginary of the past century.

Affiliation

Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL)

Book author

• Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur: Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968. Bloomsbury: New York, London and Dublin, 2025.

• Die privat-öffentliche Achse des Politischen: Das Unvernehmen zwischen Hannah Arendt und Jacques Rancière (Königshausen & Neumann, 2016)

Books/special issues of journals edited

• Cha, Kyung-Ho; Eiden-Offe, Patrick; Horst, Johanna-Charlotte; Perica, Ivana; Peyroles, Aurore; Schaub, Christoph, eds.: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre (Open Research Europe, 2025)

• Kohlmann, Benjamin; Perica, Ivana, eds.: The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920–2020 (Bloomsbury, 2024)

• Kohlmann, Benjamin; Perica, Ivana, eds.: Peripheral Europes. Special issue of the journal Critical Quarterly 65.4 (2023).

• Beganović, Davor; Božić, Zrinka; Milanko, Andrea; Perica, Ivana, eds.: Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the ›Doings‹ of Theory (Palgrave, 2024)

• Perica, Ivana; Corke, Catriona; Wegmann, Philipp eds.: Literary Acts of Agency (De Gruyter, upcoming)

• Baradaran, Kamran; Perica, Ivana eds.: Where do we go from here? Two years of the pandemic. Special issue of Philosophy World Democracy (2022)

• Jurcan, Emil; Perica, Ivana eds.: György Lukács: Poglavlje o arhitekturi (DAI-SAI, Filozofski fakultet Rijeka und Sandorf, 2017)

• Perica, Ivana ed..: Političko ↔ Pedagoško. Janusova lica pedagogije (Blaberon, 2013)

Memberships and honours

• member of the editorial board of the online journals Philosophy World Democracy and Europe: cultures, mémoires, identités.

Contact information (email address and official address of the institution)

perica@zfl-berlin.org
Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research
Pariser Straße 1, 10719 Berlin, Germany

external links

• https://www.zfl-berlin.org/person/perica.html 

• https://independent.academia.edu/IvanaPerica