Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman is a musicologist and university professor. Her academic work focuses primarily on contemporary creative tendencies in Serbian and European music and musicology. She is the lead investigator of a number of significant research projects.
She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (1971) and received her Master's degree (1974) from the Department of Musicology under Nikola Hercigonja. She received her doctorate from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1981 [dissertation title: The creative presence of the European avant-garde in us]) under Professor Radoslav Josimović.
Since 1973 Veselinović-Hofman has taught contemporary modern music history at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, and she has been a professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. During her stay in South Africa she also taught at the University of Pretoria.
Veselinović-Hofman is the editor of the international music magazine
Novi Zvuk [New Sound] and a member of the editorial department of
Zbornika Matice srpske za scenske umetnosti i muziku [Matica Srpska Annual for Performing Arts and Music]. Furthermore, she is a member of the musical section of the
Srpske enciklopedije [Serbian Encyclopedia]. She has produced musical critiques for broadcasts of
Radio Belgrade and
Politika.