Dragana Jeremić Molnar, PhD
Dragana Jeremić Molnar (1974), musicologist, full-time professor in the Department of Musicology and in the Department of Interdisciplinary studies (study program: Theory of Arts and Media) at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She also taught music history at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and was visiting lecturer at the Belgrade Open School (The Idea of Europe in Art and Literature). Jeremić Molnar studied in Belgrade (Faculty of Music and Alternative Academic Educational Network) and Munich (Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximillian Universität). She is DAAD Alumna.
Dragana Jeremić Molnar is author and co-author of 9 books. She has published numerous articles in national and international journals in music, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and literature, as wall as papers in proceedings of the international conferences in the country and abroad. Recently she has contributed (with the article “Adorno, Schubert, Mimesis”) to the summer issue (Vol. XXV, No. 2, pp. 257–273) of 19th-Century Music for 2014.
Areas of Competence: 19th-century music with particular emphasis on Germany and Austria, sociology of music, applied psychoanalysis, aesthetics of music, music and politics.
Selected bibliography: Myth, Ideology, and Mystery in the Richard Wagner’s Tetralogy. “Der Ring des Nibelungen” and “Parsifal” (with A.Molnar), Belgrade; Serbian Piano Music in the Romantic Age (1841-1914), Novi Sad, Richard Wagner, constructor of “genuine“ reality, Belgrade, 2007; Redemption of Son’s Imaginary Grieves: “Œdipus” and “Lybian”, Belgrade, 2008; Redemption of Father’s Imaginary Grief: “Boris Godunov”, Belgrade, 2008; Music Sublime in the Works of Beethoven and Schoenberg, Belgrade, 2009; Musical Avant-Gardism in Schoenberg’s Dodecaphonic Poetics and Adorno’s Critical Aesthetics, Belgrade(with A.Molnar); Adorno‘s Schubert. Towards a Theory of Mimesis (with A.Molnar), Belgrade; Wilhelm Müller‘s and Franz Schubert‘s ‘(Die) Winterreise’, Belgrade, 2014; “Inception of Wagner’s Doctrine of Regeneration Prior to the Revolution 1848–1849“, New Sound. International Journal of Music, No. 42, 2014.