Boštjan Marko Turk

Boštjan Marko Turk
Born	(1967-02-01)1 February 1967 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Nationality	Slovenian
Occupation(s)	Associate professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Ljubljana, Sorbonne University
Doctoral advisor	Dominique Millet-Gérard
Academic work
Discipline	French literature Slovene literature cultural studies ontology political theory post-communist societies
Sub-discipline	French literature from Middle Ages to 20th century Transitional period of ex-communist countries, postmodernism
Institutions	University of Ljubljana Sorbonne University Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Website	https://www.ff.uni-lj.si/en/staff/bostjan-marko-turk, https://bostjan-marko-turk.si

Boštjan Marko Turk (born 1 February 1967) is a Slovenian university professor of French literature at the University of Ljubljana.

Career

Boštjan Marko Turk received his BA and MA degrees at the University of Ljubljana. He earned his doctorate at Université Paris-Sorbonne under the supervision of Dominique Millet-Gérard in 2001.

Boštjan Marko Turk at the defence of his doctoral thesis at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris-IV on 13 January 2001.

He spent an academic year lecturing at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, and for a shorter period at Université Toulon et du Var. He lectured at: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Masaryk University, Comenius University, University of Brașov, Zaporizhzhia National University, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Palacký University Olomouc, and in the Croatian Academic Club and elsewhere.

In February 2020, he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in Paris, and in March of the same year, he also became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. There, in May 2021, he was elected Vice Dean of its first class, Humanities. He is now performing the duties of the Dean in the same class. Additionally, he is one of the editors of PEASA.

Awards

Turk won the Prešeren's University Prize in 1993.