Dubravka Oraić Tolić

Dubravka Oraić Tolić went to primary school in the village of Donji Andrijevci near Slavonski Brod, where she had met her future husband Benjamin Tolić. She studied Philosophy and Russian language with literature in Zagreb (1962–1966) and Vienna (1967–1969). She earned her master's degree with a thesis about a landscape in the opus of A. G. Matoš and her Doctorate Degree with a thesis on quotations in literature and culture. From 1971 to 1998, she worked at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Department of Literary Studies. She was a tenured professor of literary theory and culture until she retired in 2014. She taught as a guest professor at LMU Munich (1992) and the University of Göttingen (2007). She took part in scientific gatherings locally and abroad (Amsterdam, Bad Urach, Berlin, Bremen, Budapest, Heidelberg, Jena, Pecs, Petrograd, Rovereto, Veszprém). In collaboration with Ivo Frangeš, she edited libraries The critical portraits of Croatian slavists and The encyclopedia of Croatian literature and also the Library L of the Institute of Literary Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with Krešimir Nemec and Viktor Žmegač. She edited a series of almanacs with Ernő Kulcsár Szabó from the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, collaborated on Aleksandar Flaker project The thesaurus of the Russian avantgarde and the Zagreb thesaurus of 20th-century culture, and has published around 150 scientific and professional papers in the theory of culture and Croatian and Russian literature. She is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), a member of the Croatian Writers Society, member of the Croatian Centre P. E. N., and a professor emeritus and vice president of the Matica hrvatska (where she also edited the Hrvatska revija magazine from 2012 to 2021). She became the editor-in-chief of Forum magazine, a monthly publication of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, in 2022.

She is the mother of Iva Tolić, a biophysicist, academic, and university professor.

• Intertekstualnost & Intermedijalnost. Edited by: Z. Maković, M. Medarić, D. Oraić [Tolić], P. Pavličić. Zagreb: Zavod za znanost o književnosti Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 1988. • Josip Sever: Borealni konj. Prepared by and introductory essay written by: Dubravka Oraić Tolić. Zagreb: Mladost, 1989. • Antun Gustav Matoš: Putopisi. Prepared and epilogue written by: Dubravka Oraić Tolić. Vinkovci: Privlačica, 1994. • Hrvatsko ratno pismo 1991/92 Croatian War Writing 1991/92. Documentary monography. Edited by and foreword written by: Dubravka Oraić Tolić. Zagreb: Zavod za znanost o književnosti Filozofskoga fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 1992. Croatian and English. Illustrations. • Intertekstualnost & Autoreferencijalnost. Edited by: D. Oraić Tolić and V. Žmegač. Zagreb: Zavod za znanost o književnosti Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 1993. • Kraj stoljeća – krajevi stoljeća. Papers from the international symposium, Opatija, September 28 – October 1, 1997. Edited by: D. Oraić Tolić and V. Žmegač. Umjetnost riječi (Zagreb), 1999, No. 3–4. • Kulturni stereotipi: Koncepti identiteta u srednjoeuropskim književnostima. Papers from the international symposium, Lovran, May 19 – 23, 2004. Edited by: D. Oraić Tolić and E. Kulcsár Szabó. Zagreb: FF press, 2006. • Kultur in Reflexion: Beiträge zur Geschichte der mitteleuropäischen Literaturwissenschaften. Edited by: E. Kulcsár Szabó and D. Oraić Tolić. Wien: Wilhelm Braumueller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2008. • Zagrebačka književnoznanstvena škola. Umjetnost riječi (Zagreb), 2009, No. 3–4. • Reinhard Lauer: Povijest ruske književnosti. Professional redaction and afterword Dubravka Oraić Tolić. Zagreb: Golden marketing-Tehnička knjiga, 2009. • Imaginacije prostora: Centri i periferije – metropole i provincije u književnostima i kuloturama Srednje Europe. Edited by: D. Oraić Tolić and E. E. Kulcsár Szabó. Zagreb: Disput, 2013. • Hrvatsko proljeće u sjećanjima suvremenika: Memoarski zapisi u povodu 50-obljetnice Hrvatskoga proljeća (1971–2021).Prepared by and intro written by: Dubravka Oraić Tolić. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2021.

• Valentin Katajev, Trava zaborava (Sveti zdenac, Trava zaborava, Kockica). Rijeka: Otokar Keršovani, 1975. • Vladimir Majakovski, Rat i mir (svijet). Gordogan (Zagreb), 2, 1980, 5–6, 49–83. • Andrej Bjeli, Petrograd. Liber, Zagreb, 1981. • Velimir Hljebnikov, Zangezi. Dometi (Rijeka), XIV, 1981, 6, 15–35. • Sergej Birjukov: Stihija stihova. Treći program hrvatskoga radija 2013, 85, 233–251.