Senker Boris, F.C.A.

Full members VI. Department of Literature
Senker Boris

Date of birth:

  • 11/05/1947

Place of birth:

  • Zagreb

Addresses:

  • Opatička 18, 10000 Zagreb

Phones:

  • Department of Literature +385 01 4895 169
  • Division for the History of the Croatian Theater +385 01 4895 302

Emails:

Senker Boris, F.C.A.

Full members VI. Department of Literature

Academic titles:

  • Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Doctor of Science

Institutions:

  • professor – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (01/01/2016 -)
  • professor emeritus – University of Zagreb (05/15/2018 – …)

Functions in Academy:

  • member of the Presidency – Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (01/01/2019 – …)
  • head of – Division for the History of the Croatian Theater (01/30/2018 – …)
  • chair – Scientific Council for the Theater, Film, Radio and Television (07/05/2013 – …)

Membership in Academy:

  • full member – Department of Literature (05/03/2012 – …)
  • associate member – Department of Literature (05/20/2010 – 05/10/2012)

Boris Senker, a Croatian theatrologist, theater critic, lexicographer, writer and translator, was born in Zagreb on November 5, 1947. He finished high school in Pula. He completed his studies of comparative literature and English at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (1971), where he received his doctorate with a dissertation on theatrical work by M. Begović (1982) and lectures at the Department of Theatrology and Filmology at the Department of Comparative Literature; since 2018. professor emeritus. He has been a fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2012.

His work covers three main areas; history and theory of theater, theater criticism and original, ie own dramatic creation.