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Jelena Novak is a researcher at CESEM (Center for Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music), FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Her fields of interests are modern and contemporary music, recent opera and musical theatre, music and new media, capitalist realism, voice studies in the age of posthuman and feminine identities in music. Exploring those fields, she works as a researcher, lecturer, writer, dramaturge, music critic, editor and curator focused on bringing together critical theory and contemporary art. She has been a founding committee member of the Society for Minimalist Music and a founding member of the editorial collective TkH [Walking Theory]. In 2013 she won the Thurnau Award for Music-Theatre Studies from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her most recent books are Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body (Routledge, 2015), Operofilia (Orion Art, 2018) and Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama (co-edited with John Richardson, Routledge, 2019). She is currently co-editing (with Joao Pedro Cachopo) a special issue for The Opera Quarterly dedicated to operas based on films and preparing co-edited volume (with Kris Dittel) "Singing beyond Human". Novak studied musicology, art theory, theory of media and cultural analysis in Serbia (University of Arts, Belgrade), Norway (Norges musikkhøgskole, Oslo) and in the Netherlands (ASCA, University of Amsterdam and Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag). Her work appears in international peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes such as The Opera Quarterly, Studies in Musical Theatre, Music, Sound and the Moving Image, Dramaturgias, Teatron, TkH Journal, International Journal of Music New Sound, Journal Muzikologija, Zizek and Music (forthcoming), Das Wohnzimmer als Loge (2016), Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music (2013) etc. She presented her work in Europe, Asia, North and South America and her texts are published in English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, Dutch and Swedish and were commissioned by BBC, UNESCO and De Nationale Opera&Ballet (Amsterdam) among others. Her latest achievement as a dramaturge is: LIMBO, an Opera (Tel Aviv, 2019) and that same year she co-curated (with K. Dittel) the exhibition "Post-Opera" at TENT, Rotterdam.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Jelena Novak

Citation names

  • Novak, Jelena

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
521C-421F-6384
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0778-3565
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Vyh_DMQAAAAJ&hl=en

Email addresses

  • jnovak@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)
  • Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1)
Serbian (Mother tongue)
Croatian (Mother tongue)
Bosnian (Mother tongue)
Latin Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2012
Concluded
 Cultural Analysis, Musicology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Singing Corporeality: Reinventing the Vocalic Body in Postopera" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
2004
Concluded
 Art Theory and Theory of Media (Master)
Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia
"Opera in the Age of Media" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 9.6/10
2001
Concluded
 Musicology, History of Music (Bachelor (1st cycle))
Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia
"Wild Analysis: Formalist, Structuralist and Poststructuralist Interpretation of Music" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 8.68/10, graduate exam 10/10
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2013/03/01 - 2019/01/31 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
2017/01 - 2017/06 Visiting Researcher (Research) Nationale Opera and Ballet, Netherlands
Nationale Opera and Ballet, Netherlands
2006/09/01 - 2012/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Netherlands
2010 - 2012 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2014 - 2019 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2001 - 2002 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2001/01/01 - 2009/07/17 Editor for classical and Contemporary Music Radio Beograd, Radio Television of Serbia, Serbia
Radio Belgrade 3, Serbia
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2013 - 2019 OPERA BEYOND DRAMA
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH2%FBPD2%F902442%F2012/PT
SFRH / BPD / 90244 / 2012
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2006 - 2012 Singing Coreporeality: Reinveinting the Vocalic Body in Post-Opera
Huygens 2007
PhD Student Fellow
Amsterdam School for Cultural analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
 Nederlands organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs
Concluded
2002 - 2004 Opera in the Age of Media
NF 2002
Huygens 2003
Master Student Fellow
Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia

Norges musikkhøgskole, Norway

Koninklijk Conservatorium, Netherlands
Norges forskningsråd

Nederlands organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/03 - 2019/06 Exhibition "Post-Opera"
2019
Other
TENT, Netherlands

Operadagen Rotterdam festival, Netherlands

Mondriaan Fonds, Netherlands
Concluded
2010 - 2011 Women and Music in Serbia
Uneco Venice 2010
Researcher
UNESCO Venice office
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Novak, Jelena. Operofilia. Belgrade, Serbia: Orion Art. 2018.
    Published
  2. Novak, Jelena. Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2015.
    Published • 10.4324/9781315601717
  3. Novak, Jelena. Opera u doba medija. Novi Sad, Sremski Karlovci, Serbia: Izdavacka knjizarnica Zorana Stojanovica. 2007.
    Published
  4. Novak, Jelena. Divlja analiza: formalisticka, strukturalisticka i poststrukturalisticka razmatranja muzike. Beograd, Serbia: Studentski kulturni centar. 2004.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Novak, Jelena. "Opera beyond Human: Vocaloids, Mixed Realities and Singing Machines". In Opera in Flux, edited by Yayoi Everett Uno; Nicholas Stevens. University of Michigan Press, 2023.
    Under revision
  2. Novak, Jelena. "Singing in the Age of Capitalist Realism: Pervertess Guide to (Post)Opera". In Zizek and Music. Germany: Peter Lang, 2021.
    Accepted
  3. Novak, Jelena. "Introduction". In Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama, xxv-xxxvi. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019.
    Published
  4. Novak, Jelena. "Historia Einsteinalium: From the Beach to the Church, via Theatre and State Bank". In Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama (co-edited with John Richardson), 231-252. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019.
    Published
  5. Novak, Jelena. "Stay Out of the Way of Bob Wilson when he Dances". In Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama, 141-148. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019.
    Published
  6. Novak, Jelena. "Televisual Opera after TV". In Das Wohnzimmer als Loge. Von der Fernsehoper zum medialen Musiktheater, 177-193. Germany: Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2016.
    Published
  7. Novak, Jelena. "Postopera and A/synchronous Narrating: Singing Letters, Multiplied Bodies and Dissociated Voice in Andriessen/Greenaway's Writing to Vermer". In Opera Staging: Erzählweisen, 257-279. Wiena, Austria, 2014.
    Published
  8. Novak, Jelena. "From Minimal Music to Postopera: Repetition, Representation and (Post) Modernity". In Ashgate Companion to Minimalist and Post-Minimal Music, 129-140. Ashgate, 2013.
    Published
  9. Novak, Jelena. "Subverzivni socijalisticki modernizmi u muzici: Figura kompozitorke". In .), Istorija umetnosti u Srbiji XX vek: Realizmi i modernizmi oko hladnog rata [History of Arts in Serbia - 20th century: Realisms and Modernisms around Cold War], 781-786. Serbia: Orion Art, 2012.
    Published
  10. Novak, Jelena. "Mapping the Cultural History of Women as Composers in Serbia: Scream beyond Asymptote". In Women and Music in Serbia, 19-34. 2011.
  11. Novak, Jelena. "Acousmatic Voice and Singing Body". In MediArt: Pierre Schaeffer. Rijeka, Croatia: MMSU, 2011.
    Published
  12. Novak, Jelena. "Minimalizam u muzici i izlasci iz muzike [“Minimalism in Music and Exits from Music”]". In Istorija umetnosti u Srbiji XX vek: Radikalne umetnicke prakse, [History of Arts in Serbia, 20th Century: Radical Artistic Practices]. Belgrade, Serbia: Orion Art, 2010.
    Published
  13. Novak, Jelena. "Opera i muzicki teatar na pocetku 21. Veka u Srbiji: Politika diskontinuiteta". In Istorija umetnosti u Srbiji XX vek: Radikalne umetnicke prakse, [History of Arts in Serbia, 20th Century: Radical Artistic Practices]. Belgrade, Serbia: Orion Art, 2010.
    Published
  14. Novak, Jelena. "Muzika u postmoderni". In Istorija umetnosti u Srbiji XX vek: Radikalne umetnicke prakse [History of Arts in Serbia, 20th Century: Radical Artistic Practices]. 2010.
    Published
  15. Novak, Jelena. "Roland Barthes". In Figure u pokretu: Savremena zapadna estetika, filozofija i teorija umetnosti. Belgrade: Atoca, Vujicic kolekcija, 2009.
    Published
Book review
  1. Novak, Jelena. "Eric Salzman & Thomas Desi, The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body". Review of The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body 3, 2 (2009):
    Published
  2. Novak, Jelena. "Maaike Bleeker: Anatomy live: Performance and the Operating Theatre". Review of Anatomy live: Performance and the Operating theatre 144-145, (2008):
    Published
  3. Novak, Jelena. "John Richardson, Singing Archeology, Philip Glass's Akhnaten". Review of Singing Archaeology 29, 126-127 (2004):
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Novak, Jelena. "Contextualizing Opera in Postdramatic Context: Differences and Repetitions". Paper presented in First International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Bangor, 2007.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Novak, Jelena. Singing beyond Human. 2022.
    Under revision • Editor
  2. Novak, Jelena. Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2019.
    Published • Editor
  3. Novak, Jelena. Women and Music in Serbia. Rome, Italy: Fondazione Adkins Chiti. 2011.
    Published • Editor
  4. Novak, Jelena. Istorija umetnosti u Srbiji XX vek: Radikalne umetnicke prakse. Beograd, Serbia: Orion Art. 2010.
    Published • Editor
  5. Novak, Jelena. Corporeal Remembrance: Singing Body of Opera, Musical Culture and Memory, the book of preoceedings of the 8th International Symposium of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology. Belgrade, Serbia: Faculty of Music. 2008.
    Published
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Novak, Jelena. ""Einstein on the Beach" by P. Glass and R. Wilson, pp. 799-801; "Nixon in China" by John Adams and Peter Sellars, pp. 810-813; "Writing to Vermeer" by Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway, pp. 802-805; "Europeras" by John Cage, pp. 712-714; "Die Soldaten" by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, pp. 738-740,". In Opera Lexicon. University of Arts Belgrade, 2008.
    Published
  2. Novak, Jelena. "“Music and Avant-Garde”, “Moderate Modernism”, “Neoclasicissm and New Classicism”, “Electroacoustic Music”, “Out of Music”, “Repetitive Music”, “Music in Postmodern Age”, “Musical Theatre”". In Janson, History of Art (Serbian Edition), 2005.
    Published
Exhibition catalog
  1. Novak, Jelena. Post-Opera exhibition booklet, co-edited with Kris Dittel. TENT, Rotterdam, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Jelena Novak. "Music as an aggregate of colours: A conversation with Marko Nikodijevic". New Sound (2021): https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2157001N.
    10.5937/newso2157001N
  2. Novak, Jelena. "Eight, aus Licht, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being Immersed in Opera". The Opera Quarterly (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oq/kbaa003.
    10.1093/oq/kbaa003
  3. Jelena Novak. "Music beyond human: A conversation with Michel van der Aa". New Sound (2020): https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2055007N.
    10.5937/newso2055007N
  4. Novak, Jelena. "Singing beyond the TV Screen: Documentary, News and Interviews as Operatic Material". Dramaturgias 10 (2019): 91-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/dramaturgias.v0i10.24905.
    10.26512/dramaturgias.v0i10.24905
  5. Novak, Jelena. "Music that Knows Where It Is Going, conversation with composer Tom Johnson". International Journal for Music New Sound 51 (2018): 1-16. https://www.newsound.org.rs/pdf/en/ns51/01_Novak.pdf.
    Published
  6. Novak, Jelena. "Singing, Dragons and Beyond: Opera Forward". Journal Muzikologija II 23 (2017): 325-330.
    Open access • Published
  7. Novak, Jelena; Stevanovic, Ksenija. "The Velicon: Magnetic Attraction of Music and Serendipity, An interview with Jasna Velickovic". International Journal of Music New Sound II 46 (2015): 7-21. http://www.newsound.org.rs/pdf/en/ns46/01_Novak_Stevanovic.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  8. Novak, Jelena. "Vivier Reenacted: Singing Beyond Masculine". International Journal of Music New Sound, , I/ 2015, pp. 139-150. ISSN: 0354-818X (printed issue) ISSN: 1821-3782 (online issue) I 45 (2015): 139-150. https://www.newsound.org.rs/pdf/en/ns45/11Novak.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  9. Jelena Novak; Ksenija Stevanovic. "The velicon: Magnetic attraction of music and serendipity: An interview with Jasna Velickovic". New Sound (2015): https://doi.org/10.5937/newso1546007N.
    10.5937/newso1546007N
  10. Jelena Novak. "Vivier reenacted: Singing beyond masculine". New Sound (2015): https://doi.org/10.5937/newso1545139N.
    10.5937/newso1545139N
  11. Novak, Jelena. "Voices beyond corporeality: Towards the prosthetic body in opera". Studies in Musical Theatre 6 1 (2012): 73-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt.6.1.73_1.
    10.1386/smt.6.1.73_1
  12. Novak, Jelena. "Pevajuci rod, performativnost glasa i vokalno prerušavanje u „Domovini" Lori Anderson, (Singing Gender, performativity of the Voice and Vocal drag in Homeland by Laurie Anderson)". Teatron spring-sum 158-159 (2012):
    Published
  13. Novak, Jelena. "Throwing the Voice, Catching the Body: Opera and ventriloquism in Philip Glass/ Jean Cocteau's 'La Belle et la Bête'". Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 5 2 (2011): 137-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2011.7.
    10.3828/msmi.2011.7
  14. Novak, Jelena. "Politics of sadness: Little flower, refrigerator lorry, death and symphonic tradition". New Sound 38-2 (2011): 65-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/newso1102065n.
    10.5937/newso1102065n
  15. Novak, Jelena. "Monsterization of Singing: Politics of Vocal Existance". New Sound International Journal of Music II 36 (2010): 101-119. New Sound International Journal of Music.
    Open access • Published
  16. Novak, Jelena. "Undoing the real of music in works by Jasna Velickovic". New Sound International Journal of Music 33 (2009): 36-47.
    Open access • Published
  17. Novak, Jelena. "Digitality and Opera". Notations 1 (2009):
    Published
  18. Novak, Jelena. "Operacija Dante – spektakl nemoguce sinhronizacije". Teatron 143 (2008): 87-93.
    Published
  19. Novak, Jelena. "Philip Glass tvillingpar – opera och film". Nutida Musik 1 (2008):
    Published
  20. Novak, Jelena. "Sound Tide, Conversation with Miguel Azguime". New Sound International Journal of Music 30 (2007): 1-11.
    Open access • Published
  21. Novak, Jelena. "Queer protocol of homage Chambres de tenebres/tombeau de Claude Vivier by Marko Nikodijevic". New Sound International Journal of Music 29 (2007): 67-76.
    Open access
  22. Novak, Jelena. "Matrix in the Opera". TkH Journal for performing Arts Theory 10 (2006): 45-57.
    Published
  23. Novak, Jelena. "Synthesis Breakfast in Bathroom". New Sound International Journal of Music 26 (2005): 95-99.
    Open access
  24. Novak, Jelena. "The Last Serbian Opera, On Phantasms of Tradition, Gender Identities and Representation in Music Theatre". New Sound - International Journal of Music 25 (2005): 49-54.
    Open access • Published
  25. Novak, Jelena. "23. Musik-Biennale Zagreb und IGNM-Weltmusiktage 2005". MusikTexte 106 (2005):
    Published
  26. Novak, Jelena. "Music on Having Time to Disappear, Conversation with Danish Composer Ivar Frounberg". International Journal of Music New Sound 26 (2005): 53-60.
    Open access • Published
  27. Novak, Jelena. "Postkejdžijanska fascinacija operom, razgovor sa Piterom Grinavejem". Walking Theory Journal 8 (2005):
    Open access • Published
  28. Novak, Jelena. "Coloratura Reloaded". Maska XIX 1-2, 84-85 (2004): 21-25.
    Open access • Published
  29. Novak, Jelena. "N is for Neo, Nyman, Nostalgy". New Sound International Journal of Music 23 (2004): 55-60.
    Open access • Published
  30. Novak, Jelena. "Elektricne vavilonske orgulje: Ištar Luja Andrisena [Electric Babylon Organs: Inanna by Louis Andriessen]". Radio Belgrade 3 journal 119-120 (2004):
    Published
  31. Novak, Jelena. "Operske strategije prikazivanja [Operatic Strategies of Representation]". Radio Belgrade 3 Journal 121-122 (2004):
    Published
  32. Novak, Jelena. "Opera u doba elektronske/digitalne reprodukcije [Opera in the Age of its Electronic/Digital Reproduction]". Walking theory Journal for Theory of Performing Arts 7 (2004): 44-54.
    Open access • Published
  33. Novak, Jelena. "Ekonomija operske traume – operski rituali ‘male nacionalne kulture' [Economy of Operatic Trauma – Operatic Rituals of ‘Small National Culture']". Teatron 29 126-127 (2004): 47-54.
    Published
  34. Novak, Jelena. "Trainable Differences, Conversation with Steve Reich". New Sound International Journal of Music 22 (2003): 12-20. https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?artid=0354-818X0322012N.
    Open access • Published
  35. Novak, Jelena. "Andrisenologija". Radio Belgrade 3 Journal 115-116 (2003):
    Published
  36. Novak, Jelena. "Dionizijsko pulsiranje apolonijskog sata". Radio Belgrade 3 Journal 115-116 (2003):
    Published
  37. Novak, Jelena. "Operacija Orfej: transplantacija operskih organa". TkH Journal 4 (2003):
    Published
  38. Novak, Jelena. "Opera kao masovna medijska umetnost". Teatron 28 124-125 (2003): 77-82.
    Published
  39. Novak, Jelena. "The Noize of Super... Machine". International Journal of Music New Sound 21 (2003):
  40. Novak, Jelena. "Music on Music, Conversation with Louis Andriessen". New Sound International Journal of Music 18 (2001): 5-19. https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?artid=0354-818X0118005N.
    Open access • Published
  41. Novak, Jelena. "Everything is Available, Conversation with Philip Glass". New Sound International Journal of Music 14 (1999): 15-21. https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?artid=0354-818X9914015N.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Novak, Jelena; João Pedro Cachopo. "Operas based on Films". The Opera Quarterly journal (2021):
    Under revision • Coeditor
  2. Novak, Jelena. "Right to Theory". TkH journal 16 (2008): https://www.tkh-generator.net/portfolio/tkh-16-right-to-theory/.
    Coeditor
  3. Novak, Jelena. "Izvodenje izvedbe u izvodackim umetnostima [Performing Performance in Performing Arts]". TkH journal 4 (2004): https://www.tkh-generator.net/portfolio/tkh-6-performing-performance-in-performing-arts-2-queer/.
    Published • Coeditor
Manual
  1. Novak, Jelena. REMEMBERING, A Limbo to Sing About, LIMBO an opera, program booklet, Vox Feminae Festival, Tel Aviv. 2019.
    Published
  2. Novak, Jelena. Beethoven beyond Itself, Trio Cremeloque plays Ludwig van Beethoven Klaviertrios Naxos CD booklet. Naxos. 2019.
  3. Novak, Jelena. “De Volharding”, “Zilver”, “Hout”, “A is for Art, Activism, Andriessen”, “Rosa’s Horses”, “La Commedia”, “De Stijl”, “Mysterien” in: “Total Immersion: Louis Andriessen” BBC Symphony Orchestra at Barbican, London, festival program booklet. United Kingdom. 2016.
    Published
  4. Novak, Jelena. Andriessen and Opera: The Bell rings 13 Times, in program booklet of “Theatre of the World” by Louis Andriessen. Dutch National Opera. 2016.
    Published
  5. Novak, Jelena. Busy People Music, Miroslav Misa Savic, Music Hologram Nikola Tesla, CD booklet. 2015.
  6. Novak, Jelena. Walking on the Classical Side, Trio Cremeloque CD booklet, Label: solo Musica, SM213. 2014.
  7. Novak, Jelena. Vox Box, for the program booklet of “Black Box” by Bojan Djordjev and Sinisa Ilic. 2011.
  8. Novak, Jelena. Politics of Creativity through Economy of Love and Death, in program booklet for the opera “Les Enfants Terribles” by Philip Glass. 2009.
  9. Novak, Jelena. Voice, the Impossible, DVD booklet of Salt Itinerary multimedia opera by Miguel Azguime. 2007.
  10. Novak, Jelena. On Postoperatic Certainty, program booklet for Operrra is a Female performance. 2005.
  11. Novak, Jelena. On the Plot Line, program booklet for the opera Il Signor Bruschino by G. Rossini. 2000.
  12. Novak, Jelena. Libretto for ballet Orpheus, program booklet, Belgrade, Chamber opera Madlenianum. 2000.
Newspaper article
  1. Novak, Jelena. "Splav operske meduze", VREME, 2018, https://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1588865.
  2. Novak, Jelena. "Dvanaest minuta koji nisu promenili svet", VREME, 2017, http://www.vreme.rs/cms/view.php?id=1559751&print=yes.
  3. Novak, Jelena. "Politika glasa, Interview with artist Katarina Zdjelar", 2017, http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1556565.
  4. Novak, Jelena. "Bez pompe i sljokica", VREME, 2017, http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1546677.
  5. Novak, Jelena. "Opera Forward", VREME, 2017, http://www.vreme.com/account/login.php?url=%2Fcms%2Fview.php%3Fid%3D1490792.
  6. Novak, Jelena. "Antidiva", VREME, 2016, http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1450825.
  7. Novak, Jelena. "Spajanje medija: Donald i Hilari kao operski junaci", VREME, 2016, http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1445438.
  8. Novak, Jelena. "Hip-hop klasika", VREME, 2016, http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1439974.
Online resource
  1. Novak, Jelena. Metalingual Mouth of Music: Signifiers Vertigo After Poststructuralism. 2005. http://mic.pt/dispatcher?where=4&what=2&show=4&edicao_id=4498&lang=PT.
  2. Novak, Jelena. Percussive Silence of Words. 2005. http://5.206.228.8/dispatcher?where=3&what=2&show=0&edicao_id=3324&lang=EN.
  3. Novak, Jelena. Prosthetic Music, Michel van der Aa’s Case. 2004. https://www.vanderaa.net/prostheticmusic.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Novak, Jelena. "Singing corporeality: reinventing the vocalic body in postopera". PhD, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2012. https://dare.uva.nl/search?identifier=53bea21b-f43b-40b7-999e-42fca17110c5.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic performance
  1. 2001. DreamOpera, opera, theoretical performance, music by Jasna Velickovic /performer, musicology advice/. (Tartini Theatre Piran; National Theatre, Belgrade; MAMA, Zagreb).
Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2019. "Post-Opera". In “Post-Opera”.
  2. 2006. "Composers in the First Person, festival". In Composers in the First Person, 2nd edition.
  3. Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk, Bernhard Lang, Jasna Velickovic. 2004. "Composers in the First Person, festival". In Composers in the First Person, 1st edition.
Script
  1. Novak, Jelena. Mozart, Luster, Lustik, opera by Irena Popovic Dragovic /co-author of libretto/. 2006.
  2. Novak, Jelena. Il Signor Bruschino, opera, music by Gioacchino Rossini (Chamber opera Madlenianum, Belgrade) /dramaturge/. 2000.
  3. Novak, Jelena. Orfej u podzemlju, dance, music by M.Kedrov, B.Eno, E.Morricone, J.Taverner, M.Oldfield, I.Stravinski (Chamber opera Madlenianum, Belgrade) /librettist/. 1999.
Theatre play
  1. Michal Grover Friedlander, Eli Friedlander. 2019. LIMBO an Opera.
  2. Bojan Djordjev, Sinisa Ilic, Marta Popivoda, Ana Vujanovic. 2009. Les Enfants Terribles, dance opera by Philip Glass (from Cocteau Trilogy) /dramaturge/.
  3. 2005. Operrra is a Female, music theatre, music by Jennifer Walshe, Anja Ðordevic, Goran Kapetanovic /performer, dramaturge, musicology advice/.
  4. 2003. The Dracula Project, theoretical spectacle, music by Jasna Velickovic /performer, musicology advice/.

Other

Other output
  1. Um libreto para ficarem em casa seus anormais. Musical theatre, music by Vitor Rua, based on text by Rodrigo García, directed by Albano Jeronimo /musicology advice/ Teatro Dona Maria. 2017. Novak, Jelena.
  2. Not a Pillar Not a Pile (Tanz fur Dore Hoyer). Multichannel audio-video work by Katarina Zdjelar /musicology advice/ Kunsthale Rotterdam. 2017. Novak, Jelena.
  3. El Retablo de Maese Pedro, opera, music by M. de Falla (Rex Cultural Center, Belgrade) /producer/. 1998. Novak, Jelena.
  4. Bastien&Bastienne, opera, music by W.A. Mozart (Rex Cultural Center, Belgrade) /producer/. 1996. Novak, Jelena.
  5. Dido and Aeneas. opera, music by Henry Purcell (National Museum, Belgrade) /musicology advice/. 1995. Novak, Jelena.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/05 ”The Cultural History of Contemporary Opera: Serbia as Case Study” International conference Music and Art in the Shaping of European Cultural Identity, granted by Erasmus + program
University of Arts, Faculty of Music (Belgrade, Serbia)
2020 Opera beyond Human: Vocaloids, Mixed Realities and Singing Machines Opera in Flux: Identity, Staging, Narrative
School of Theatre and Music, University of Illinois Chicago (online, United States)
2020 LISTEN, WATCH AND INTERACT: Music as App in the Age of Posthuman Like, share and Subscribe: Youtube, Music and Share Culture before and after the New Decade
CESEM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (online, Portugal)
2019/12/05 “Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama” guest lecture
University of Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv, Israel)
2019/11 “After Opera: Einstein on the Beach” invited lecture, MA is scenic arts courses
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/08/22 “Coloratura through Minimalist Grid: Institutional Theory of Art and Un’Opera Italiana by Tom Johnson” Minimalism Extended: The Seventh International Conference on Minimalist Music
Cardiff University (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
2019/07 “Opera beyond the City: Vocaloids, Mixed Realities and Singing Machines” International conference “Opera and the City: Technologies of Displacement and Dissemination”
National Theater of São Carlos; CESEM; Cinemateca (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06 “Dog, Voice, Opera” 8. Seminário Música, Teoria Crítica e Comunicação
CESEM (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/05/18 "Installing the Operatic" Installing the Voice, International symposium
TENT Rotterdam, Operadagen festival, CESEM (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2019/04 “Post-Opera and Voice” Guest lecture (with Kris Dittel)
Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2019/03/01 “Odbranimo humanistiku” (Let’s Defend Humanities) Operofilia book launch
National Library (Belgrade, Serbia)
2019 Invited pre-concert talk with Lucinda Childs related to the performance of “Einstein on the Beach” by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson at Operadagen Rotterdam Operadagen Rotterdam
Tobias Kokkelmans (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2018/12/31 “Constructing Canine Vocality” Human Voice, Animal Voice, International conference
University of Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv, Israel)
2018/12/03 “Loaded Singing: Opera, Realism and Politics / Perspectives from Latin America” Instrumental Theatre. Music and the Stage in Latin America (1954-2006), International Conference
Casa del Bicentenario, Centro de Arte Sonoro (CASo) (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2018/05 "Cinematography with a Scent of Opera: Films and their Singing Derivatives" Opera through the eyes of Film, international conference
University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2018/04 "Opera beyond Itself: Installing the Operatic" International conference Experiments in Opera Today
Heyman Center, Columbia University (New York, United States)
2017/05/19 “Installing the Operatic” International conference “The Operatic”
Center for research of Music Theatre (CROMT), University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2017 “Instaliranje operskog” Musicological Forum
Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Belgrade, Serbia)
2017 “Beyond Einstein on the Beach” MA is scenic arts courses
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016 “Shaggy–Dog Minimalism in Operas by Tom Johnson” International conference "Minimalism: Location Aspect Moment"
Winchester Guildhall and Winchester School of Art (Winchester, United Kingdom)
2015/09 “Opera on the Horizon of Postminimalism” Minimalism Unbounded, The Fifth International Conference on Music and Minimalism
University of Turku; Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland (Turku, Helsinki, Finland)
2015/05 “Singing, Ventriloquism and the Body: Performing the Voice in Postopera” 23rd ICTM Colloquium Between Speech and Song: Liminal Utterances
Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (Paris, France)
2015/02/14 “Documentary Singing: Performing the Voice in Music by Steve Reich” Steve Reich Study Day
Kings Place, Society for Minimalist Music (Lonson, United Kingdom)
2015 “Singing Gender as a Performance” Musical Trouble: After Butler, colloquium
NEGEM, CESEM (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015 Public talk about Koyaanisqatsi (1982) dir. Godfrey Reggio (music by Philip Glass), Bodysong (2003) dir. Simon Pummell (music by Jonny Greenwood), Decasia (2002) dir. Bill Morrison (music by Michael Gordon) “Atrás do Som e da Imagem”
O’culto da Ajuda (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/12/11 “Minimalism and Postminimalism” Radio as a Pillar of Development of Serbian and Yugoslavian Art and Culture
Musicology Institute SANU (Belgrade, Serbia)
2014/04/23 “In Transit: from Operndorf to Youtube Symphony” Musical Practices – Continuities and Transitions, XII. International Conference of the Department of Musicology
Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, Belgrade University of Arts (Belgrade, Serbia)
2014 “Postopera: Reinventing the Vocalic Body” Musicological Forum
Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Belgrade, Serbia)
2013/01/04 “Will it Get Some Wind for the Sailboat? The Life and Times of Postopera” International Symposium “Einstein on the Beach: Opera after Drama”
University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam)
2013 “From Einstein to Disney: Political Economy of Opera beyond Drama” Fourth International conference for Music and Minimalism
UCLA and the California State University, Long Beach (Los Angeles, United States)
2013 “Classical music and Ventriloquist Dance: Le Sacre du Printemps Reinvested” Simpósio Cem Anos de Sagração da Primavera (1913-2013)
CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/11/09 “Operatizing the Film” International conference Opera and Cinema: The Politics of an Encounter
CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 “Politics of Turbo-folk” Seminário «Estética e Política entre as Artes»
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 “Postopera and Moving Image: Singing Body beyond the Screen” Conference: Das Wohnzimmer als Loge. Von der Fernsehoper zum medialen Musiktheater
Universitat Siegen (Siegen, Germany)
2012 “Reinventing the Vocalic Body in Postopera” Seminar “MÚSICA, TEORIA CRÍTICA E COMUNICAÇÃO”
CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 “Body and Voice, Divided: Singing Corporeality in the Age of Media” International conference Astonished and Terrified: Opera and the Transformation of the World by Technology
Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2011/10 “La Commedia, Vocal Travesty and Reinvention of Body-Voice – Gender Construct” The Third International Conference on Minimalist Music
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
2011 "Writing to Vermeer: Singing Letters and Opera after Drama" International Symposium: Time, Realism and Convention in Recent Opera
University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2011 "From Minimal Music to Postopera: Repetition, Representation and (Post)Modernity" Second Colloquium of Society for Minimalism in Music
University of Wolverhampton (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2010/03 “Prosthesis, Ventriloquism, Travesty: Reinventing Singing in the Age of Media” International Workshop Opera in Medial Transformation
European Institute (Florence, Italy)
2008 “Il Ruolo della musica contemporanea nella cultura europea” lecture/roundtable discussion
RisonanzExpo (Pescara, Italy)
2005 “Representation of Body in Music Theatre” lecture
Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts (Belgrade, Serbia)
2005 “Opera in the Age of Media” guest lecture
Faculty of Arts (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2004 Opera as Mass-Media Art Lecture series at MIC
Music Information Center (Belgrade, Serbia)
2002/04 “Music and Postmodernity in Yugoslavia” guest lecture
Norvegian Academy of Music (Oslo, Norway)
2002 Opera in the Age of Media Lecture series at MIC
Music Information Center, Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/09 - 2021/01 Opera "O Corvo Branco" by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson. Postdramatic perspectives.
Supervisor
 post-doc (Other)
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil
2018 - 2020 “Descrever (Com Chantal Akerman). Tanto tempo tinha passado. Eu estou aqui.”
Co-supervisor
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/06/24 - 2019/06/25 Opera and the City: Technologies of Displacement and Dissemination, International Conference, co-host with Joao Pedro Cachopo (2019/06/24 - 2019/06/25)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Portugal

Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu do Cinema, Portugal
2019/05/18 - 2019/05/18 International symposium "Installing the Voice" (2019)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
2013/01/05 - 2013/01/06 Einstein on the Beach: Opera after Drama, co-organizer with Sander van Maas (2013)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018 - Current American Musicological Society
2012 - Current SPIM – Portuguese Society of Music Research
2009 - Current Union of Serbian Composers and Musical Writers
2007 - Current Society for Minimalist Music
2000 - Current Slovenian Musicology Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 - 2019 Special Interest Group for Voice Studies, The Society for Ethnomusicology Co-chair
2004 - 2011 CHINCH, Initiative for Research and Production of Contemporary Music, “Live” and Visual Arts director
2001 - 2010 TKH (Walking Theory), Center for Theory and Practice of Performing Arts (Belgrade)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Steering Committee, Society for minimalist Music
Member
 Society for Minimalist Music, United Kingdom
2011 - 2015 Steering Committee, Society for minimalist Music
Member
 Society for Minimalist Music, United Kingdom

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020 - Current Shaping the Present by the Future: (Ethno)musicology in/and Contemporaneity, International conference Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences
2019 - Current International conference “Opera and the City: Technologies of Displacement and Dissemination” CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos
2011 - Current Third International Conference on Music and Minimalism Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium
2019/05/18 - 2019/05/18 Installing the Voice, International symposium TENT Rotterdam, Operadagen festival, CESEM
2016 - 2016 ‘LOG IN, LIVE ON’ música e cibercultura na era da Internet of Things Organization: SociMus (CysMus)/CESEM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2013/01/05 - 2013/01/06 Einstein on the Beach: Opera after Drama, International symposium University of Amsterdam

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - Current peer reviewer Journal of the American Musicological Society, United States
2019 - Current Editorial board, INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology
2018 - Current peer reviewer Journal "Nuove Musiche", Italy
2018 - Current peer reviewer Journal of Musicological Research, United States
2017 - Current peer reviewer Journal Muzikologija, Serbia
2003 - Current Editorial board, Muzicki Talas magazine
2005 - 2015 Corresponding editor, Nutida Musik
2002 - 2009 peer reviewer TkH journal, Serbia
2001 - 2006 Editorial board Treci program journal Radio Belgrade 3, Serbia
2001 - 2006 Editorial board, TkH Journal
2001 - 2005 Editorial board for music program Radio Belgrade 3, Serbia

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2015/01 - 2015/04 Module “Opera, New Media and Singing Body” MA in Scenic Arts Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2014/01 - 2014/04 Module “Opera, New Media and Singing Body” (MA in Scenic Arts)
2009 - 2009 Module: “Music as Text: from Formalist to Semiotic Analysis” MA in Art Theory and Theory of Media, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia
2001 - 2002 Course: Art Theory, MA in Art Theory and Theory of Media MA in Art Theory and Theory of Media Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia
2001 - 2002 Performance Theory performance theory (Outros) CENPI, Center for New Theatre and Dance, Serbia

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2020/03/09 - 2020/03/09 Music Matters, BBC Radio 3 Game Changers, interview about the book Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama
2015/02/19 - 2015/02/19 Radio Belgrade 2 and Radio Belgrade 3 Text for the Intermission of direct broadcast of Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni” from Matropoliten Opera in New York

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019/04 - 2019/04 Installing the Voice Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, master students
Distinctions

Award

2013 Thurnau Award
2010 Bozidar Valtrovic theatre award
Little Theatre Dusko Radovic, Serbia

Other distinction

2013 FCT Postdoc research grant
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
2007 Hyugens grant
Nederlands organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs, Netherlands
2003 Huygens grant
Nederlands organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs, Netherlands
2003 British Council travel grant
2002 Research Council of Norway Grant
Norges forskningsråd, Norway
2000 Pro Helvetia travel grant