Mina Lukić Gunner is a researcher in the field of Art History, Museology, and Heritage Studies. She holds a BA and an MA in Art History from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She is currently a PhD candidate at the same university, working on a PhD thesis entitled Heritage of Fictional Worlds in the Era of Participatory Culture: Modes of Remembering J.R.R. Tolkien's Fictional World. She has been employed as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Priština in Kosovska Mitrovica since October 2017.
She founded the Tolkien Society of Serbia and has served as its president since its establishment in 2023.
Her research interests include theory and methodology of heritage studies and museology, museum discourse, heritage interpretation and communication, cultural memory studies, popular culture, participatory culture, and Tolkien studies.
Selected Tolkien-related publications:
Mina D. Lukić, "Architecture as Cultural Signifier: Building Identities of Middle-earth on Screen", in: Cami D. Agan (ed.), Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth. Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium, Mythopoeic Press, Altadena, California, USA 2024, 234-254.
Mina D. Lukić, "Mediterranean Resonances in Tolkien's Middle-earth", Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Prištini (eng. Collection of Papers of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Prištinа), vol. 53, br. 3 (Kosovska Mitrovica 2023), pp. 317-338.
Mina D. Lukić, „Kako pamtimo Tolkinova dela: uticaj filmskih adaptacija", u: Dragoljub Igrošanac i Mladen Jakovljević (ur.), Književna fantastika 9, Art-Anima i Kontrast izdavaštvo, Beograd 2023, 24-39.
Mina Lukić, Dejan Vukelić, "Tolkien's Grave as a Site of Memory", in: Will Sherwood (ed.), Twenty-first Century Receptions of Tolkien: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Winter Seminar 2021, Peter Roe Series XXI, Edinburgh: Luna Press Publishing, 2022, pp. 58-88.
Mina D. Lukić, "Is Adapting Tolkien (Mis)Remembering Tolkien?", in: Will Sherwood (ed.), Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2020, Peter Roe Series XX, Edinburgh: Luna Press Publishing, 2021, pp. 75-125.
Mina D. Lukić, "Film Locations as Perilous Realms of Memory: Tourists Negotiating Mental, Virtual and Real Topographies of Tolkien's Middle-earth", Kultura: Časopis za teoriju i sociologiju kulture i kulturnu politiku 168 (Beograd 2020), pp. 28-50.
Мина Лукић, „Not all those who wander are lost: у трагању за Толкиновом Средњом земљом и новим 'другим местима'", Percepcije drugog kao drugačijeg: zbornik radova sa II interdisciplinarnog studentskog skupa „Karlovački dani slobodne misli", Sremski Karlovci 2016, 115-128.
