Dragana Stojanović-Novičić, PhD
Belgrade-born Serbian musicologist, Dr. Dragana Stojanović-Novičić, is a professor at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she has served as the head of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology and as chair of the Musicology Council. Her primary research focuses on contemporary classical music in Serbia, the USA, and France. Stojanović-Novičić has authored several books, including one on Vinko Globokar, and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as American Music (2011), L’éducation musicale, Contemporary Music Review (2021), New Sound, and Musicology. Stojanović-Novičić has participated in conferences across Europe and the USA and has co-edited many conference proceedings. Her lecture on Vinko Globokar, delivered at a conference in Paris at the invitation of the organizers, was featured on the website of the Parisian Center for the Documentation of Contemporary Music (2013). As a Fulbright Professor and Scholar, she taught Music of the European Avant-Garde and Ear Training at Bard College in New York State (2016). She participated twice in the modules of the Jean Monnet program of the European Erasmus+ program. Under the Erasmus+, she delivered a series of lectures on contemporary music at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2018). Stojanović-Novičić has organized and directed musicology-theater performances focusing on topics from music history, including one on composer Conlon Nancarrow in the BITEF Theater, at the Belgrade BEMUS Festival (2012). She has received a scholarship for postdoctoral studies in Switzerland from the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia, a research grant from the Swiss Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel (2006/7), and an award for the best young scholars in Serbia from the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development. She gave a solo piano recital at the Witikon Cultural Center in Zurich (2015).