Leonora Flis
Dr. Leonora Flis is an (Adjunct) Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Nova Gorica, Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Maribor and lecturer of the English language at the University of Ljubljana.
In her research Leonora Flis focuses on literary theory, contemporary British and American Literature, film (especially in relation to literature), graphic novels and literary journalism. She also writes book and film reviews, translates scholarly texts and literary works, and writes short stories.
She published a collection of short stories Upogib časa ( LUD Literatura, 2015) and in 2022, her second collection was published, titled Enakozvočja (Založba MIš). She was the recipient of the Fulbright fellowship and was a visiting Fulbright scholar at Columbia University in New York. She is the author of a monograph Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel (2010). Her scientific articles have been published in Slovene and foreign scholarly journals.
Lectures
- Poletna šola: Writing the Mediterranean. Erasmus Intensive Programme, Malta, 30 March – 11 April 2014. Predavanje: Literary Travel Journalism, History and Conflict on Mediterranean Shores.
- Poletna šola: Mediterranean Imaginaries. Erasmus Intensive Program. Malta, March 30 – April 5, 2017.Predavanje: Joe Sacco and Documentary Comics. Seminar: Nonfiction Comics.
- Poletna šola: Mediterranean Imaginaries, Erasmus Plus. Malta, April 1 – April 6, 2018. predavanje: Joe Sacco’s graphic literary journalism. Seminar: Nonfiction Comics as a Medium of Mourning and Remembrance.
- Predavanje: Erasmus + Training. Universidad de Barcelona, Instituto de Formacion Continua, Spain. 11.4. 2016 – 15.4. 2016. Lecture: Nonfiction Comics.
- Vilenica 2019, 10. in 11. 9. 2019; 34. Mednarodni komparativistični kolokvij: Literatura in pripoved: Postklasične perspective in analize. Referat: »Graphic Narratives (Graphic Novels) and Narrativity«.
- Brock University, Ontario, Canada. Predavanje v sklopu predmeta Creative Nonfiction (prof. Rob Alexander). 6.3. 2019.
- Brock University, Ontario, Canada, Predavanje v sklopu predmeta Creative Nonfiction (prof. rob Alexander), 29.11. 2021
- Erasmus+ training: University of Oxford, UK. 22- 28 Maj 2018
- IALJS (International Association for Literary Journalism Studies) mednarodna konferenca, Kopenhagen, 20.-22.5. 2021. Vodim panelno razpravo “The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism”
- IALJS Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Periodismo, Santiago, Čile. (The Narrative of Social (In)Justice in Slavenka Drakulić’s works Café Europa: Life After Communism(1996) and Café Europa Revisited: How to survive post-communism (2021)
- IALJS mednarodna konferenca: Transmission/representation of fact/history in the non-fiction graphic novel : Joe Sacco’s literary journalism depicting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : predavanje na simpoziju IALJS – International Association for Literary Journalistic Studies, London, 22. maj 2010. London, 2010. [COBISS.SI-ID 42567010]
- IALJS mednarodna konferenca. Reconfiguration of the borders of reporting and remembrance in the “War on Terror” era : narrative journalism and collective memory after 9/11 : lecture at The Seventh International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS -7), Toronto, 17-19 May, 2012. Toronto: Ryerson University, 2012. [COBISS.SI-ID 2751227]
- IALJS mednarodna konferenca. Louis Adamič – Slovenian-American journalistic voice of a new, democratic post-WW II Europe : predavanje na simpoziju IALJS – International Association for Literary Journalistic Studies, Lizbona, 17. maj 2008. Lizbona,2008.[COBISS.SI-ID 39854434]
- IALJS mednarodna konferenca. Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon : a literary journalistic study of the Balkans at the Onset of WW II : lecture at The Eighth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS -8), Tampere, 16-18 May, 2013. University Of Tampere: University, 2013. [COBISS.SI-ID 2751739]
- ASEEES konferenca, San Antonio, TX, November 20023, 2014. Predsedujoča panelu “What’s Old is New Again: Issues in Russian and Eurasian Contemporary Prose.”
- Panelna razprava – “Gender and Symbolism,” referat: “Slavenka Drakulić’s Literarized Commentaries on the History of Eastern Europe and the Balkans.” Konferenca – Univerza v Gdansku, Poljska White masks / grey faces: Self and Body in the Postcommunistic Times, 23.9.-26.9. 2014. Referat: Communism’s Legacy in Slavenka Drakulić’s Writing on Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
- The International Comics and Graphic Novel Conference, London, British Library, July 18-20 2014. Paper: “9/11 Nonfiction Graphic Narratives and Comics Journalism as Testimonies to Terror and Trauma.”
Workshops
Ljubljana City Library and Trubar House of Literature
March 2022
June 2022
Creative writing workshop (18 hours/ 6 meetings)
June 2021
Creative writing workshop (18 hours/6 meetings)
June 2020
Creative writing workshop (24 hours / 9 meetings)
June 2019
Creative writing workshop (28 hours / 10 meetings
March 2018
Creative writing workshop (24 hours / 9 meetings)
October 2016
Creative writing workshop (24 hours / 9 meetings)
Škofja Loka, Društvo Grable and JSKD Škofja Loka
September 2022
September 2021
ZAPIŠ: short story writing workshops
Februar, Marec 2020
Creative writing workshops with Leonora Flis
Oktober, November 2019
Writing workshop High School of Design
June 2019
University of Maribor
January 2022
Writing workshop