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DARKO R. SUVIN, PERSONAL DATA: Born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Married, no children. University teacher, literary and theatre critic, poet and writer. Studied at Zagreb University, Univ. of Bristol (U.K.), the Sorbonne (France), and Yale Univ. (U.S.A.). Degrees: B.A., M.A. (equiv.), M.Sc. (equiv.) and Ph. D. (Zagreb).

FIELD: Comparative Literature and Dramaturgy, Cultural and Intercultural Theory, Theory of Literature and Theatre; European and Japanese Dramaturgy, Brecht; Utopian and Science Fiction.

PAST POSITIONS: Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb Univ. (1959-67); vice-president of the Union Internationale des Théâtres Universitaires, Zurich, Switzerland (1962-65); member, Croat National Theatre Board (1962-64), Nat. Library Board (1963-65); art director, International Student Theatre Festival, Zagreb (1967); Assistant, later Associate and Full Professor of English, McGill Univ. (1968-99); programming co-chair, Science Fiction Research Association conference, Toronto (1971); chair, International Symposium on H.G. Wells and Science Fiction, Montreal (1971); member of Executive Committee, International Science Fiction Research Assn. (1970-73); editorial consultant, Brecht Jahrbuch, International Brecht Society (1971-81); co-editor of Science-Fiction Studies (1973-81), publisher of same (1978-81), contributing editor (1981-96); chair, MLA Special Sessions on Science Fiction (1975 and 1976); member of Executive Committee, Canadian Group for the Study of Para-Literature (1976-80); editorial advisor, The Wellsian, Journal of the H.G. Wells Society (1976-81); cross-appointed as professor in Comparative Literature Program, McGill University (1976-92); vice-president, Science Fiction Research Assn. (1977-78); member of organizing and contact commitee, joint meeting of the American and Canadian Comp. Lit. Assn.s, Montreal, Oct. 1978; chair, International Congress on Science Fiction and Criticism, Univ. di Palermo (1978); chair, session on The Novel and Literary Sociology, 9th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Assn., Innsbruck (1979); chair, session on Science Fiction, Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, Garmisch 1980; chair, session 4 on "Oral and Written Literature," 11th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Assn., Paris 1985; contributing editor, Science-Fiction Studies (1981-96); Vice-President, Int'l Brecht Society (1984-88) and N. American coordinator of its 1986 Hong Kong triennial conference; editor, Literary Research/ Recherche littéraire, Internat. Comparative Lit. Assn. review organ, 1986-94, co-editor 1994-95 (earlier assoc. editor); secretary, Committee of Concerned Scholars, McGill Univ. (1987-88); co-chair, session "Lit. Theory II," 13th ICLA Congress, Tôkyô 1992; chair, session "Japan and the West," 14th ICLA Congress, Edmonton 1995.

Visiting Lecturer, English Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA (1967-68); Visiting Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Indiana Univ., Bloomington IN, USA (Summer 1968); Visiting Professor, Univ. of Rome, English and French Institutes (Spring 1982); Afd. Literaturwetenschap, Kath. Univ. Leuven (Spring 1986); Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum (Germany), Spring 1989; Visiting Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Univ. of Alberta, Winter 1992; Killam Award Fellow of the Canada Council, 1992-94; Nat. Science Council Distinguished Foreign Visitor in Taiwan (RoC), March 1994; Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Center, Australian Nat. Univ., Summer 1997; Adenauer Award Fellow, Humboldt Foundation 1997-2000; Visiting Professor, Facoltà di Lettere, Univ. di Trento, 2000; Visiting Professor, Fakultät Medien u. Gestaltung, Bauhaus-Uni. (Weimar), 2000.

PRESENT POSITION: Emeritus Professor, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada. Fellow of Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences) from 1986. Research associate, Dipt. di anglistica, Univ. di Pisa, Italy; membro  del Collegio, Dottorato in Italianistica, Dipt. di l. e l. moderne e comparate, Univ. Roma 2 - Tor Vergata, Italy. 

Contributing editor Dichtungsring (Germany, 1988--). Member of Advisory Board, Utopian Studies; Management Comm. of Literary Research Foundation of Canada; National Consultative Committee for the U. of Alberta Comparative Literature Institute "History of the Literary Institution in Canada" project.

LANGUAGES: spoken--Croatian or Serbian, English, French, Italian, German, Russian; read--Spanish, classical, some other European languages. Learning Japanese.

PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL (to 2001): At theatre, drama, science fiction, and theory of literature conferences and seminars, also as jury or panel member and guest lecturer; including radio and TV talks in Zagreb, Paris, London, Munich, Rome, Toronto, New York, Milano, etc. Lectured on modern drama and theatre, theory of literature and cultural discourse, utopian and science fiction, etc., at many universities and professional meetings, among others: the MLA Annual Meeting (7 times); Congress of the International Comparative Literature Assn. (5 times); International Brecht Society Symposium (6 times); Canadian Learned Societies annual meeting (3 times); Colloquium of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences & Arts--JAZU (twice); Symposium on Literary Theory, Hong Kong Univ.; Conference of the British Comp. Lit. Assn.; Conference of the European Assn. for American Studies; Symposium of Bakhtin studies (twice); annual meeting of American Theatre Assn.; Int'l Congress of Utopian Studies (Italy) and Society of Utopian Studies Annual Meeting (3 times); SF Research Assn. annual meeting (4 times); Jerusalem Theatre Conference 1986; Conference on Popular Culture at Meiji U.; annual SF Seminar, Ochanomizu (Japan); Rethinking Marxism conference (twice); Colston Symposium on Theatre and Drama Studies (Bristol). Also, repeatedly, at 8 universities in Canada, including Alberta, UBC, and Toronto; over 35 universities and colleges in USA, including California at Berkeley, Irvine, La Jolla, and UCLA, Columbia, Cornell, Drexel, Duke, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New York U., Pittsburgh, S. Clara, S.M.U., Stanford, Temple, Texas at Austin, Tulane, U.S.C., Washington, Wisconsin, and Yale (USA); Birmingham, Cambridge, East Anglia, Liverpool, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Surrey, and Warwick (UK); Théâtre des Nations, Paris III and XIII, E.H.E.S.S., Nice, and Picardie (France); Innsbruck (Austria); Humboldt, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Frankfurt, Giessen, Hamburg, Kassel, Erlangen, Mannheim, Kln, Mainz, München, Phant. Bibliotek Wetzlar, Bauhaus Weimar (Germany); Amsterdam and Utrecht (The Netherlands); ca. 20 universities in Italy, including Bari, Bologna, Catania, Firenze, Milano, Istituto Orientale (Napoli), Palermo, Pavia, Pisa, Roma I, II, and III, Salerno, Torino, Trento, Urbino, Venezia, Verona; Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark), Oslo (Norway), Genève, Lausanne, Zürich (Switzerland), Lisbon (Portugal) and Estremadura (Spain), Zagreb and Beograd (Yugoslavia); Delhi Univ. (3 colleges), First Conference of Comparative Indian Literature and India International Centre, both in Delhi, and Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad (India); Hong Kong U. and Chinese U. of Hong Kong; Foreign Languages Institute, Shanghai (PR China); Tel Aviv Univ., Haifa Univ., Bar-Ilan Univ. (Israel); Int'l Christian U., Waseda U., Keio U., Kansai U., Seijô U., Rikkyo U., Aoyama U., Tsuda College, Deutsche Ost-Asien Ges. (Japan); Monash U, UNSW, Sturt U, ANU, and Cook U (Australia); Athens U and Aristotle U (Greece).

ACADEMIC AWARDS: Various grants from Yugoslav & international bodies during studies; Ford Foundation grant in the USA, 1965-66; from 1969 on, Canada Council (SSHRC of Canada) research grants (9 times, for 1 to 3 years each), leave fellowships (5 times), travel grants, international representation grants; McGill Humanities research grants most years 1969-89. Québec FCAC grantee as principal co-investigator in team research 1975 and 1976; Japan Foundation research grant May-August 1988; Saison Foundation (Japan) grant in Spring 1992; Adenauer Prize Award by the Humboldt Foundation (Bonn) 1997.

Pilgrim Award by the Science Fiction Research Assn. for scholarly contribution to the field, 1979. Book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction chosen as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books 1979" by Choice magazine (May 1980). Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall College (Cambridge UK) in 1973-74, of University College (London UK) in 1980-81; Visiting Research Fellow of Tokyo University 1990-91, of Rikkyo University (Tokyo) 1994. Honorary Visiting Professor, Dept.s of English and History, Reading Univ. (UK), 1999-2002.

(Non-academic) Poetry prizes in competitions: first prize of magazine Haiku Zasshi Zô (Dec. 1984), of Ursus Press New Poets 4 anthology (1985), of Ursus Press Jan. '85 competition, and of WPBS Poetry (Ottawa) 1985; second prize of mag. Amelia for Oriental Forms (Oct. '84) and of Ursus Press (Feb. '85); prize for poetry manuscript by Culture Assn. of Federal Republic Croatia (Yugoslavia, Feb. '86); several honourable mentions.

BIOGRAPHICAL OR CRITICAL LITERATURE ON D.S. (selected):

Number of entries in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index... [in their style of counting, but subtracting self-citations]: 1975-79: 88; 1980-84: 139; 1985-89: 104; 1990-94: 96; 1995-98 (so far): 29.

D. SUVIN, SELECT LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (pages of first edn.)

VOLUMES PUBLISHED (expanded data about translations and reprints in Thematic List)

1. Dva vida dramaturgije (Two Aspects of Dramaturgy), essays on theatre. Zagreb: razlog, 1964. 183p.
2. Od Lukijana do Lunjika (From Lucian to the Lunik), historical survey and anthology of science fiction. Zagreb: Epoha, 1965. 566p.
3. Uvod u Brechta (An Introduction to Brecht). Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 1970. 290p.
4. Russian Science Fiction 1956-1974: A Bibliography. Elizabethtown NY: Dragon P, 1976. viii+73p.
5. Dramatika Iva Vojnovića (special issue entirely devoted to this text). Dubrovnik no. 5/6 (1977): 2-370.
6. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. New Haven & London: Yale UP, 1979. xviii+317p. (earlier, much shorter French version 1977; German transl., shortened by one chapter, 1979; Spanish 1984 and 1987; Italian 1985; Japanese 1991).
7. Victorian Science Fiction in the U. K.: The Discourses of Knowledge and of Power. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1983. xvii+461p.
8. To Brecht and Beyond: Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy. Brighton: Harvester P, and Totowa NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1984. xii+ 276p.
9. The Long March: Notes on the Way 1981-1984 (poems). Willowdale ON: Hounslow, 1987. x+106p.
10. Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction. London: Macmillan, & Kent OH: Kent State UP, 1988. xviii+227p.
11. Armirana Arkadija (poems). Zagreb: Naprijed, 1990. 122p.
12. Lessons of Japan. Montreal: CIADEST, 1996. 247p. [US$27, distributed by Maisonneuve Press, 6423 Adelphi Rd., University Park MD 20782, USA]
13. Looking at Science Fiction: With Sober, Estranged Eyes. Working Papers  Series in Cultural Studies, Ethnicity, and Race Relations No. 12. Pullman WA: Washington SU, 2000. 28pp.

14. For Lack of Knowledge: On the Epistemology of Politics as Salvation. Working Papers  Series in Cultural Studies, Ethnicity, and Race Relations [No. 27]. Pullman WA: 2001. 32pp. (partial Croatian transl. 2002).

VOLUMES EDITED (expanded data about translations and reprints in Thematic List)

1. Bertolt Brecht, Dijalektika u teatru (Dialectics in the Theatre)--selected, edited, and translated with notes and Preface. Beograd: Nolit, 1966. 298p.; 2nd augmented edn. 1980. 340p.

2. Other Worlds, Other Seas: Science Fiction Stories From Socialist Countries--selected and edited with Preface and notes. New York: Random House, 1970. xxxiii+217p.; and New York; Berkeley, 1972 (German transl.1972 and 1975; French 1973; Dutch 1976; Japanese 1976).

3. Bertolt Brecht: St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, programme booklet--selected, partly written, and edited. Montréal: McGill Univ., 1973. 40p.

4. Co-editor (with M.D. Bristol) of A Production Notebook to Brecht's "St. Joan of the Stockyards" (includes one essay of mine). Montreal: McGill Univ., 1973. 250p.

5. Brecht's Koriolane, programme booklet--selected and edited. Montreal: McGill Univ., 1976. 40p.

6. Coeditor (with R.D.Mullen) of Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1973-1975. Boston: G.K. Hall/ Gregg P, 1976. 304p. (includes an introduction, 4 essays, and 3 notes by me); 

7. Principal editor of H.G. Wells and Modern Science Fiction, a book of essays by various hands. Lewisburg PA & London: Associated U Presses, 1977. 279p. (includes my Introduction and one essay by me).

8. Coeditor (with R.D. Mullen) of Science-Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977. Boston: G.K. Hall/ Gregg P, 1978. 335p. (includes two essays by me).

9. Guest editor, Književna smotra no. 46 (1982), special issue on science fiction, 93p. large size (12 essays--including one essay, the introduction, and a bibliography by me).

10. Guest editor, Canadian-American Slavic Studies 18, no. 1-2 (1984), special issue on science fiction, 152p. (12 essays, including an introduction by me).

11. Guest editor, Chung-Wai Lit. Monthly (Taipei), special issue on Science Fiction 22.12 (May 1994): 6-217 (with my Introduction and 14 essays, of which two mine).

12. Guest co-editor (with K. Karatani), Discours social/ Social Discourse 6.1-2 (1994):1-210 [large size], special issue "The Non-Cartesian Subjects, East and West" (10 essays, including an Introduction and an essay by me).

13. Co-editor (with G. Maniscalco Basile) of Nuovissime mappe dell'inferno: Distopia oggi. Roma: Monolite Ed., 2003 [forthcoming].

IN BOOKS BY VARIOUS HANDS (select list after 1980; expanded data about translations and reprints in Thematic List)

1. "On Two Notions of `Science' in Marxism," in Tom Henighan ed., Brave New Universe. Ottawa: Tecumseh P, 1980, 27-43.

2. "Semiotički pogled na neke vidove Vojnovićeve dramaturgije" (A Semiotic View of Vojnović's Dramaturgy), in Frano Čale ed., O djelu Iva Vojnovića. Zagreb: Yugoslav Academy of Science and Art, 1981, 319-46.

3. 22 entries in C.C. Smith, ed., Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Writers. London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's P, 1981 (1 updated for the 1986 edn.).

4. "Vojnović's Dramaturgy and Its European Context," in Miroslav Beker ed., Comparative Studies in Croatian Literature. Zagreb: Zavod za zn. o književnosti, 1981, 337-57.

5. "Dramaturgy and Literature," in Eva Kushner ed., Renewals in the Theory of Literary History. Ottawa: The Royal Society of Canada, 1984, 77-88.

6. "Levels of Narrative Agents," in Claudio Guillén ed., Theory of Poetic Form: Proceedings of the X Congress of the International Comparative Literature Assn. New York: Garland, 1985, 2: 227-32.

7. "On Fiction as Anthropology: Agential Analysis, Types, and the Classical Chinese Novel," in Jonathan Hall and Ackbar Abbas eds., Literature and Anthropology. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 1986, 116-46.

8. "Can People Be (Re)Presented in Fiction?" in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg eds., Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana IL: U of Illinois P, 1988, 663-96.

9. "The Chronotope, Possible Worlds, and Narrativity," in Jean Bessière ed., Fiction--Narratologie --Texte--Genre: Proceedings of the ICLA XI Congress, Vol. 2. NY & Bern: Lang, 1989, 33-41.

10. "Counter-projects: William Morris and the Science Fiction of the 1880's," in Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver eds., Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Columbia MO: U of Missouri P, 1990, 88-97 (also in Rhys Garnett and J.R. Ellis eds., Science Fiction Roots and Branches. London: Macmillan, 1990, 7-17).

11. "Brecht's Parable of Heavenly Food: Life of Galileo." Essays on Brecht. Brecht Yearbook 15 (1990): 187-214.

12. "The Popular Ballad as Dramaturgic Catalyzer and John Arden's Armstrong's Last Goodnight," in Günther Ahrends and Hans-Jürgen Diller eds., Unconventional Conventions in Theatre Texts. Tübingen: Narr, 1990, 43-52.

13. "Approach to Topoanalysis and to the Paradigmatics of Dramaturgic Space," in Herta Schmid and Hedwig Král eds., Drama und Theater: Theorie--Methode--Geschichte. München: Sagner, 1991, 82-111 (transl. into Japanese1990).

14. "On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF," in Larry McCaffery ed., Storming the Reality Studio. Durham: Duke UP, 1991, 349-65 (also published in Foundation 1989, transl. into Japanese 1988, into Italian, and into German).

15. "Einige Überlegungen samt zwei Arbeitshypothesen über den Horizont des europäischen Studententheaters, 1956-67," in M. Joković ed., Liber Amicorum de Dragan Nedeljković. Beograd-Nancy: n.p., 1993, 206-13.

16. "Lem," "Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris," and "Zamiatin," entries in John Clute ed., The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. London: Little, Brown, and New York: St. Martin's P, 1993, 710-12, 1173-75, 1364-65; idem, in Grolier Science Fiction. Danbury CT: Grolier Electronic Publ., 1995 [CD-ROM].

17. "Fantascienza," in Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali. Roma: Ist. della Enciclopedia italiana, 1993, 3: 788-92 (large size; transl. into Chinese  1994).

18. "Heavenly Food Denied: Life of Galileo," in Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks eds., The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994, 139-52 (transl. into Greek in N. Valavani ed., Bertolt Brecht: Kritikes prosengiseis 2002).

19. "A Brief Introduction to Senda Koreya, Theater Director and Brechtian"; and "Senda Koreya's Directing History" plus "Meine Brecht-Rezeption" by Senda Koreya (ed. and annotated), Brecht Yearbook 19 (1994): 291-95 and 296-345.

20. "A Modest Proposal for the Semi-Demi Deconstruction of (Shakespeare as) Cultural Construction," in Loretta Innocenti et al. eds., Semeia: Itinerari per Marcello Pagnini. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1994, 67-76.

21. "La letteratura comparata come prova di magia bianca," in A. Gnisci and F. Sinopoli eds., Comparare i comparatismi. Roma: Lithos, 1995, 89-98.

22. (with Marc Angenot) "L'aggirarsi degli spettri. Metafore e demifisticazioni, ovvero l'implicito del manifesto (Elogio, limiti e uso di Marx)," in M. Galletti ed., Le soglie del fantastico. Roma: Lithos, 1997, 129-66.

23. "Locus, Horizon, and Orientation: The Concept of Possible Worlds as a Key to Utopian Studies," in J.O. Daniel and T. Moylan eds., Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch. London: Verso, 1997, 122-37.

24. "Against Originals: honkadori and the Horizons of Pastiche," in P. Mildonian ed., Parodia, pastiche, mimetismo. Roma: Bulzoni, 1997, 65-80.

25. "Sabine Kebir, Ich fragte nicht nach meinem Anteil." Brecht Yearbook 24 (1999): 386-96; transl. into German 1999 [review article].

26. "Haltung (Bearing) and Emotions: Brecht's Refunctioning of Conservative Metaphors for Agency," in T. Jung ed., Zweifel - Fragen - Vorschläge: Bertolt Brecht anlässlich des Einhundertsten. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang V, 1999, 43-58.

27. "Novum Is as Novum Does," in K. Sayer & J. Moore eds., Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers. London: Macmillan, & New York: St. Martin's, 2000, 3-22.

28. "With Sober, Estranging Eyes," Afterword to P. Parrinder ed., Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2000, and Durham NC: Duke UP, 2001,233-71.

29. "Darko Suvin: A Checklist of Printed Items that Concern Science Fiction," in P. Parrinder ed., Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2000, and Durham NC: Duke UP, 2001, 272-90.

30. "On the Epistemology and Pragmatics of Intercultural Theatre Studies," in G. Berghaus ed., New Approaches to Theatre Studies and Performance Analysis. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001, 31-44 (transl. into Croatian 2000]).

31. "Haltung," entry in Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Vol. 5. Hamburg: Argument, 2002, col. 1134-42.

32. "Science Fiction Parables of Mutation and Cloning as/and Cognition" in D. Pastourmatzi ed. Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction. Thessaloniki: University Studio, 2002, 131-51 [a portion in Femspec 2002].

33. "Reflections on What Remains of Zamyatin's We after the Change of Leviathans: Must Collectivism Be Against People?" in Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium, ed. M. Barr. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 2003, 51-81.

34. "Theses on Dystopia 2001," in Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan eds. Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination. New York & London: Routledge, 2003, 187-201.

35. "Conflict, Conflict Über Alles?: Conflict Vs. Revelation as Stage Poetics and Paradigms," in Atti del Convegno A.I.S.S. 2001 (forthcoming).

36. "Trenta Tesi sulla Distopia" and "Narciso e Anteo: il collettivismo deve per forza essere contro la gente?" in G. Maniscalco Basile and D. Suvin eds., Nuovissime mappe dell'inferno: Distopia oggi. Roma: Monolite Ed., 2003 [forthcoming].

37. "To Laputa and Back: A Missing Chapter of Gulliver's Travels."  [forthcoming]

38. "Fantasy as Critique and Cognition," in C. Bordoni ed., Linee d'ombra. Cosenza: Pellegrini [forthcoming]

ARTICLES

Select list after 1968. A full list of writings about SF, utopia, and cognate matters can be found in "Darko Suvin: A Checklist..." (2000) above. Expanded data about translations and reprints in Thematic List. 

Ca. 500 critiques, essays, and studies on literature, theatre, and culture published in various European, Indian, Japanese, North American, and Oceanian periodicals. These include Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Canadian Slavic Studies, Clio (W), College English, Communautés, Comparative Literature Studies, Croatica, Culture & Context, Delo (B), The Drama Review, Études françaises, Eureka (Tokyo), Europe, Extrapolation, Forum (Z), Foundation, Genre, Hayakawa SF Magazine, Helikon, Heyne SF Magazin, Hihyô kûkan, imprévue, Intersezioni, Izraz, Journal of Arts & Ideas (Delhi), Književna smotra, Književnik, Književnost, Literature and History, Littérature, Massachusetts Review, Métaphores, Minnesota Review, Modern Drama, Modern Languages Review, Mogućnosti, Mosaic, Most/ Le Pont, Pacific Quarterly Moana, Pitanja, Poetics Today, Praxis (Z), Prolog, Protée, Quarber Merkur, Questions des genres littéraires, Republika, Restant, Savremenik, Science-Fiction Studies, Social Text, Sociocriticism, Sociologie et sociétés, Solaris Almanach, Strumenti critici, Studies in the Literary Imagination, SubStance, Travail théâtral, Tulane Drama Review, Umjetnost riječi, Versus, The Wellsian, Working Papers in Communications. More than 40 of such periodicals are refereed. A selection in major languages and in refereed journals only is:

"Eric Bentley: The Hero as Theatre Critic." The Massachusetts Review 9 (1968): 350-58.

"Significant Themes in Soviet Criticism of Science Fiction." Extrapolation 11 (1970): 44-52.

"Criticism of the Strugatskii Brothers' Work." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 6 (1972): 286-307.

"'Utopian' and 'Scientific': Two Attributes For Socialism From Engels." The Minnesota Review no. 6 (1976): 59-70.

"Preliminary Theses on Allegory." Umjetnost riječi no. 1-3 (1977): 197-99.

(with M. Angenot) "Thèses sur la 'sociologie' de la littérature." Littérature no. 44 (1981): 117-27.

"Supplement to Russian Science Fiction 1956-1974." Canadian-American Slavic Studies no. 4 (1981): 533-44.

"La Vision des drames expressionistes de M. Krleža...." Most/ Le Pont no. 1/2 (1982): 25-45 (abridged English original in Mosaic 6.4 [1973]: 169-83).

"The Social Addressees of Victorian Fiction." Literature and History no. 1 (1982): 11-40.

"Transubstantiation of Production and Creation." The Minnesota Review no. 18 (1982): 102-15 (transl. into French 1997).

"On Dramaturgic Agents and Krleža's Agential Structure." Modern Drama 27 (1984): 80-97.

"Two Holy Commodities: The Practices of Fictional Discourse and Erotic Discourse." Sociocriticism no. 2 (1985): 31-47 (also partly published in French).

"The Performance Text as Audience-Stage Dialog Inducing a Possible World." Versus no. 42 (1985): 3-20 (also published in Italian).

"On Metaphoricity and Narrativity in Fiction." SubStance no. 48 (1986): 51-67.

"Brechtian or Pseudo-Brechtian: Mythical Estrangement in the Berliner Ensemble Adaptation of Coriolanus." Assaph (Theatre Studies) no. 3 (1986): 135-58.

"Lukács: Horizons and Implications of the 'Typical Character'." Social Text no. 16 (1987): 97-123.

(with M. Angenot) "A Response to Professor Fekete's 'Five Theses'." Science-Fiction Studies 15 (1988): 324-33.

"Weiss's Marat/Sade and its Three Main Performance Versions." Modern Drama (Oct. 1988): 395-419.

"The Subject as a Limit-Zone of Collective Bodies (Bakhtin, Hobbes, Freud, Foucault, and Counting)." Discours social/ Social Discourse 2.1-2 (1989): 187-99.

"Brecht's Life of Galileo: Scientistic Extrapolation or Analogy of the Knower?" Forum Modernes Theater 5.2 (1990): 119-38.

"Brecht: Bearing, Pedagogy, Productivity." Gestos 5.10 (1990): 11-28.

"Nô-Theater" (review). Monumenta Nipponica 46.1 (1991): 133-36.

"The Yamabushi." Communications from the Int'l Brecht Society 20.1-2 (1991): 42-52.

"The Soul and the Sense: Meditations on Roland Barthes on Japan." Canadian R. of Comparative Lit. 18.4 (1991): 499-531 (Japanese transl. in Gendai shisô 1991).

"Poetyka orientalna i jej recepcja w Europe" (review). Literary Research/ Recherche littéraire no. 19 (1992/93): 14-15.

"Some Theses on Fiction as Epistemology." Discours social/ Social Discourse 5.1-2 (1993): 121-26.

"And Yet: Seesaws, Pivots, and Parentheses: Reflections on Two Voices of Translation Discourse à propos of Haiku of Issa." Discours social/ Social Discourse 5.3-4 (1993): 55-79.

"Burehito-no-kai (The Brecht Group) Experimental Performances" by Senda Koreya (ed. and annotated). Communications from the Int'l Brecht Society 22.2 (1993): 59-69.

"Preliminary Note" to Kôichi Yamano, "Japanese SF, Its Originality and Orientation." Science-Fiction Studies 21 (1994): 67-69.

"Polity or Disaster: From Individualist Self Toward Personal al Valences and Collective Subjects." Discours social/ Social Discourse 6.1-2 (1994): 181-210 [large size].

"Introduction to the 'Non-Cartesian Subjects' Issue." Discours social/ Social Discourse 6.1-2 (1994): 7-21 [large size].

"Revelation vs. Conflict: A Lesson from Nô Plays for a Comparative Dramaturgy." Theatre J. 46.4 (1994): 523-38.

"On Cognitive Emotions and Topological Imagination." Versus no. 68-69 (1994): 165-201.

"The Use-Value of Dying: Magical vs. Cognitive Utopian Desire in the "Learning Plays" of Pseudo-Zenchiku, Waley, and Brecht." Brock R. 3.2 (1994): 95-126 (somewhat different version transl. into Japanese in Hihyô kûkan 1993).

"On Haltung, Agency, and Emotions in Brecht: Prolegomena." Communications from the Int'l Brecht Society 24.1 (1995): 65-77 [also in Frakcija 1998].

"A Farewell Editorial." Literary Research /Recherche littéraire no. 23 (1995): 4-5.

"Synchrony as Aim and Reference: A Thesis on Parody's Horizons." Canadian R. of Comparative Lit. 23.2 (1996): 475-83 [earlier Italian version in 1995].

"Travels of a Shintoist Cybermarxist" [two interviews with Chao-yang Liao and Tami Hager]. Foundation no. 67 (1996): 5-28.

"Deity vs. Warrior Nô Plays." J. of Theatre and Drama (Haifa) 2 (1996): 133-51.

"Two Cheers for Essentialism & Totality: On Marx's Oscillation and its Limits (As Well As on the Taboos of Post-Modernism)." Rethinking Marxism 10.1 (1998): 66-82.

"Utopianism from Orientation to Agency: What Are We Intellectuals under Post-Fordism To Do?" Utopian Studies 9.2 (1998): 162-90, rpt. in Frakcija 1998 [Serbian transl. 1999].

"Wo sind wir? Zur Politik und Ökonomie der Sintflut." Zeitschrift fur kritische Theorie no. 7 (1998): 61-69.

["Some Notes & Memories on Dale Mullen's Maieutics."]. Science-Fiction Studies vol. 25 (1998): 404-08.

"Centennial Politics: On Jameson on Brecht on Method." New Left R. no. 234 (March-Apr. 1999): 127-40, available on <www.newleftreview.net/Archive.asp> [rpt. in Kamen' 2001): 91-109; transl. into  German 1999, into Croatian 1999].

"Horizon (Utopian)" and "System." Entries for "Lexicon: 20th Century A.D.," in Public [Toronto] no. 19: 72-75 and no. 20: 81-84 (Spring 2000).

"Considering the Sense of 'Fantasy' or 'Fantastic Fiction'." Extrapolation 41.3 (2000): 209-47 (somewhat augmented in Orizzonti del fantastico. Ed. A Contenti. CD, Dipt. Lett. Comparate, U Roma III, June 2002).

"Answers to Questionnaire for New York Public Library Utopia Exhibition Website." http://www.nypl.org/utopia/I_meta_9.html [2000 on] (transl. into Greek in augmented form 2002).

(with questions by Van Ikin, Russell Blackford and Sylvia Kelso). "A Colloquium with Darko Suvin." Science Fiction [U. of W. Australia]16.1 (2001): 2-33.

"The Arrested Moment in Benjamin's 'Theses': Epistemology vs. Politics, Image vs. Story." Neohelicon 28.1 (2001): 177-94.

[Interview with Christos Xanthakis.] Eleuterotypia [Athens] Dec. 5, 2001, pp. 42-44.

"Bertolt Brecht: The Manifesto" [transl.] and "On Brecht's The Manifesto: Comments for Readers in English." Socialism and Democracy 16.1 (2002): 1-31.

[Interview with Srećko Pulig.] Feral Tribune [Split] Aug. 17, 2002, pp. 56-59.

"What May the Twentieth Century Amount To: Initial Theses." Critical Quarterly [Oxford UK] 44.2 (2002): 84-104 (Croatian transl. in Filozofska istraživanja no. 88 [2003]: 207-25).

"De la guerre 2001: triomphe du capitalisme sauvage," in M. Angenot and R. Robin eds., La Chute du Mur de Berlin dans les idéologies. Montréal: Discours social n.s. no. 6, 2002, 161-74).

"La Regola e le eccezioni: Werner Krauss e gli Studi Romanzi in Germania." Osservatorio critico della Germanistica [Trento] no. 1 (2002): 33-43; reduced version as "Auerbach's Assistant." New Left R. n.s. no. 15 (May-June 2002): 157-64, at <www.newleftreview.net/Archive.asp>; full English version "The Rule and the Exceptions: Romance Studies in Germany and Werner Krauss" at http://www.iablis.de (click on 2003).

"The Horizons of Wells’s Numerology." Science-Fiction Studies 29.1 (2002): 148-49 [note].

"Goodbye and Hello: Differentiating within the Later P.K. Dick." Extrapolation 43.4 (2002): 368-97 (transl. into Greek 2004).

"Strugatski Remembrance." Extrapolation 44.2 (2003): 224-27.

"Intervista [di Carlo Bordoni] con Darko Suvin." Robot no. 42 (2003): 122-27.

"Europa? Repubblica delle lettere?" Bollettino '900 - Electronic Newsletter of '900 Italian Literature Giugno 2003, n. 1, http://www2.unibo.it/boll900/numeri/2003-i/Suvin.html "The Final Chapter of SF?: On Reading Brian Stableford." SFRA R #266 (2003): 5-9 and #267 (2004): [forthcoming].

"Leggere è un verbo transitivo," in  Che cosa significa: leggere, a cura di S. De Luca e A. Piperno. Sincronie 7.13 (gennaio-giugno 2003):  51-58.

"Sul concetto di utopia in epoca moderna." Nuova secondaria 5 (gennaio 2004): 105-11.  

"Living Labour and the Labour of Living: A Little Tractate for Looking Forward in the 21st Century." forthcoming in Critical Quarterly [Oxford UK] 46.1 (2004): (Croatian transl. in Filozofska istraživanja no. [2004]: