Department of Croatian Studies

Name and surname

Ivana Trtanj, Ph.D.

Profession

Assistant professor

E-mail

itrtanj@foozos.hr

Office number

48

Research interests

• First langauge acquisiton
• Discourse development in pre-school and school age children
• Early literacy development
• Learning Croatian as a second language

About the teacher

She has been employed at the Faculty of Education as a teaching assistant since December 2007 instructing courses Croatian language, Language culture, Functional styles in language communication, Acquisition and learning of the Croatian language, Pre-practice in reading and writing and Lexicology and word formation in the Croatian language. February 2016 she held the position of a postdoctoral researcher, and in October 2019 she acquired the title and position of assistant professor. Being a member of the ECL (European Consortium for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages) she participates in compiling tests on Croatian language knowledge for non-native speakers. In 2013 she was elected a member of the Commission for development of standards and exams for Croatian as a foreign language of the National Centre for External Evaluation of Education (NCVVO). She is an associate at two projects of the Croatian Science Foundation: Textual Coherence in Foreign Language Writing: Croatian, German, English, French and Hungarian in Comparison (IP-2016-06-5736) and Multilevel Approach to Spoken Discourse in Language Development (UIP-05-2017). She is a member of the Croatian Philological Society. Her research interests are focused on the area of Croatian language acquisition, the development of children’s discourse and early literacy as well as on studying Croatian as a second language.

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CROSBI Ivana Trtanj

First and last name

Emina Berbić Kolar, PhD

Profession

Full Professor

Email

eberbic@foozos.hr, ebkolar@gmail.com

Office number

Dean Office and office no. 29

Research interests

Croatian Language, Dialectology, Communications, Sociolinguistics, Media Literacy

Name and surname

Lidija Bakota Ph. D.

Title

Associate professor

Vice dean for teaching

e-mail

lbakota@foozos.hr

Office number

Vice deans office and office no. 64

Research interests

3. stylistics, sociolinguistic, bioethical analysis of Croatian
children’s literature on animalistic topics

I was born on 15th July 1974 in Osijek (Croatia) where I have finished my primary and secondary education. I have finished Croatian Language and Literature at Faculty of Pedagogy (today Faculty of Philosophy) at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek. Since 2006/07 academic year I am employed at Faculty of Primary Education (today Faculty of Education) at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek. I have obtained my Ph. D. in 2010 at Faculty of Philosophy at Zagreb University (thesis: Communicational model of oral exercises in primary education). In 2012 I became assistant professor at Faculty of Education.

At Faculty of Education I teach Croatian Language Didactics I, Croatian Language Didactics II, Oral and written communication and Public Speech. I participate at teachers’ professional training by teaching at professional seminars on Croatian language and oral and written communication.

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CROSBI Lidija Bakota

Name and surname

Gordana Lesinger, Ph.D.

Title

Associate Professor

e-mail

glesinger@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

Research Interests

communication, media and journalism, public relations

Gordana Lesinger is an associate professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. She was born in Osijek, where she completed primary and secondary school. She graduated in journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb, and in 2016 she received the academic title of Doctor of Science at the doctoral school "Communications" of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek. Her area of scientific interest is communication, mass media, public relations and professional ethics in journalism. She was additionally educated in the field of public relations and communication at domestic and European courses and schools. NATO (CICA) Communication School (2004-2006). The Dutch Royal Academy "Government Communication" (2004) and the London School of Public Relations (2002). She started working during her studies in 1997 and has been involved in journalism and public relations throughout her working life. She participated in numerous projects and conferences, and published three books and many works in the field of media and communications.

CROSBI Gordana Lesinger

Name and surname

Valentina Majdenić, Ph.D.

Title

Associate Professor

e-mail

vmajdenic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

64

Research Interests

Teaching Literature in Primary Schools

Teaching Media Literacy

Regional Literature

She has been enrolled 2005/2006 in postgraduate university study in Literature and Cultural Identity.Her PhD-Thesis entitled Reception of Slavonic Regional Literature In Elementary School Textbooks (1st to 8th grade) From 1970 to 2008 was defended on 27th January 2012 in front of the commission: Prof.Dr. Ana Pintarić (Chairman of the Committee), Dr. DubravkaSmajić, Assistant Professor (Member of the Committee) and Dr. Irena Vodopija, Associate Professor (Member of the Commitee, Mentor).On March 16, 2012, she was elected to the position of Adjunct in the scientific field of humanities, theory and history of literature, branch of Croatian Studies.On December 19, 2013, she was elected into the position of the Assistant Professor, scientific field of humanities, theory and history of literature, branch Croatian Studies.Her scientific interestshave been directed towards the methodology of literature and the methodology of media culture, local and regional literature.She is a co-author of Croatian language textbooks for primary school, from 2nd to 4th grade.She has been the member of the Erasmus K2 Membership Project Pacemaking the education and employment: answers to new challenges and opportunities.

Project Abbreviation: P-EE, from October 1, 2016 to March 31, 2018 (18 months). Project proposed by: Koprivnica Open University, Partner:Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek. Project code: 7E470F9E5337D292

Project data is available at:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus-plus/national-agencies_en.htm

CROSBI Valentina Majdenić

First and last name

Jadranka Mlikota

Profession

Email

jmlikota@foozos.hr

Office number

64

Research interests

Croatian language, language history, standardology, media language, Croatian-Hungarian philological permeations

Jadranka Mlikota was born on July 15, 1974 in Osijek, where she completed her primary and secondary education and afterwards graduated from the Faculty of Education, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (1998).

She received her doctor's degree at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2009) on the topic of Syntactic possibilities purpose in standard Croatian language. Since 2005 she has been teaching courses in Modern Croatian Standard Language at the Croatian and German Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Since July 2024, she has been employed at the Faculty of Education, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek.

Her scientific field of interest is directed towards the syntax and semantics of the contemporary Croatian language, the language of the second half of the 19^th century, the breaking of the norm and the normative relationship between the Zagreb and Vukovians' schools of philology, the reflections of that relationship in the language of literary works, and Croatian-Hungarian philological permeations.

As a collaborator, she was involved in the scientific research project Language and Style of Regional Periodicals (since 2005), in two institutional scientific projects of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek: Hungarian Parts of Croatian Grammaticography in a Digital Environment (2022)  and Digitization of Croatian Grammatical and Paremiological Materials (2023), in two international projects: EFOP-3.4.3-16-2016-00022 "QUALITAS Minőségi felsőoktatási-fejlesztés Sopronban  és Szombathelyen”  ("QUALITAS Development Activities for Quality Higher Education in Sopron and Szombathely ") and GIP-Project Traces of the German Language, Literature and Culture in Croatia (DAAD-Project no.: 57338369).

She is currently a collaborator on the project Croatian-Hungarian Written Heritage (uniri-iskusni-human-23-131) of the Faculty of Humanities and

Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka. She was the manager of the project Croatian-Hungarian Linguistic Contacts in the Second Half of the   19^th century (UNIOS IZIP-2014-26).

She is the author of the scientific monograph Slavonian Tkanica: Language of Native Authors of the19^th Century (2014), co-author of the scientific monograph Hungarian Parts of Croatian 19^th Century Grammaticography (2021) and co-author of the expert book Croatian Language Tips (2014). She participated in more than forty scientific meetings and published about sixty scientific and professional papers. She has also worked professionally as a member of editorial boards, a member of professional societies and organizations, and as a reviewer. From 2005 to 2010, she was a member of the Linguistic Department of Matrix Croatica Osijek, and from 2015 to 2019 a member of its Supervisory Board.

She is a member of the Croatian Philological Society. She has reviewed papers for domestic and foreign linguistic journals and Croatian scientific publications in the field of her scientific interest. She is the editor of four Croatian editions.

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Jadranka Mlikota

Name and surname

Dubravka Smajić, Ph.D.

Profession

Associate professor

E-mail

dsmajic@foozos.hr

Office number

48

Research interests

Contemporary Croatian language

Croatian Language standard

Syntax of the Croatian language

Croatian language in the 19th and 20th centuries

Scientific  research and professional work

Master’s paper in philology

- Exclamativity and its expression in the standard Croatian language (mentor: Dr Josip Silić, full professor)

Dissertation:

-Grammar books by Mirko Divković (mentor: Dr Sanda Ham, full professor)

Associate on the scientific projects:

Child and language acquisition and Croatian language as part of national identity of bilingual minorities (within the scientific programme Croatian Philology and border territories) – the main researcher  Dr Irena Vodopija, associate professor 

She has  made the programmes of obligatory and facultative courses of Croatian language at the time of the founding of the Faculty of education and the Study of early and pre-school education according to the Bologna declaration  for lifelong education

She has held lectures for primary school teachers and Croatian language teachers Croatia and Hungary,  she has organized courses of Croatian language for the students of the University of Osijek and delivered speeches for the occasion of the Croatian language days

countries and also grades and conducts Croatian laqnaguge ECL exams .

One of the founders of the International scientific conference Children and Languages Today and a member of its organizing board (since 2001 till today), member of the editorial board of five conference proceedings and chief editor of two conference proceedings

For several years she has regularly taken part in the Department of the Croatian language of the Osijek branch Matica hrvatska in the informative action Language telephone.

She has held speeches at scientific conferences in Croatia and abroad

Chair of the sub-department of languages

Memberships

She is a member of

The Scientific Council for Education and Education 

The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

The Panel for awarding the prize „Dr. Ivan Šreter“ - the choice of the best new Croatian word

Croatian Philological Society

Croatian Association for Applied Linguistics

Croatian Reading Association

Matica hrvatska.

Editorial work

Member of the editorial board of the journal Language. Journal for the culture of Croatian language of literature (since 2019)

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CROSBI Dubravka Smajić

Name and surname

Nina Mance, Ph.D.

Title

Assistant Professor

E-mail

nmance@foozos.hr

Room

48

Research interests

Dialectology, lexicology

Nina Mance graduated in 2002 from the Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Josip JurajStrossmayer in Osijek, acquiring the title of Croatian language teacher. In the academic year 2006/2007 she enrolled in Doctoral studies of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Josip JurajStrossmayer in Osijek. She defended her thesis in June 2014 and acquired the title of PhD in humanities, scientific field philology.  She has taught numerous courses at the Faculty of Education in Osijek, Department of Philology, since 2008, as an assistant and senior assistant. The courses she has taught are: Croatian language lexicology and morphology, Local vernacular, Croatian language, Children’s literature, Integration-correlation system in the Croatian language, Oral and written communication, Croatian language and communication, Language games, Public speech and Croatian linguistic cultural heritage.

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CROSBI Nina Mance

Name and surname

Mirta Bijuković Maršić

Title

Senior Lecturer

e-mail

mmarsic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

47

Research interests

Philology, History and teory of literature

Mirta Bijuković Maršić (Osijek, 1981.) is a senior lecturer at Faculty of Education in Osijek.

She has graduated History and Croatian Language and Literature in Faculty of Humanities and Social Science in Osijek in 2004. She worked as a history teacher and croatian language teacher in schools in Osijek and Đakovo 2004-2007. She has worked as teaching assistant professor at Faculty of Humanities and Social Science in Osijek 2007-2010 and 2010-2017 at Department of Cultural Studies, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. In 2004 and 2005 she was on project New School in Nansen Dialogue Center. She was  on Junior Faculty Development Program at  University of California, Berkeley, SAD in 2009 from January to June.

She is a member of Matrix Croatica, Society for the Study of the Short Story and Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in Berkeley.

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CROSBI Mirta Bijuković Maršić

First and last name

Krešimir Čosić

Profession

Assistant

Email

kcosic1@foozos.hr

Office number

47

Research interests

Linguistics, Philology, Dialectology, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology

He completed his graduate studies in Croatian language and literature and history in 2015 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek. He is a co-founder of the student association for the promotion of language culture LingvOs. He worked in several schools in Zagreb and passed the professional exam for teachers in 2017. In the period 2017-2019 he conducted preparatory classes in Croatian as a foreign language for children of asylum seekers. Since 2020, he has been working as an assistant at the Faculty of Education in Osijek, at the Department of Croatian Language, where he holds seminar classes in the courses Oral and Written Communication and Croatian Dialects. He participates in international scientific conferences regularly.

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Name and surname

Tena Babić Sesar

Title

expert advisor

e-mail

tbsesar@foozos.hr, tenababicsesar@gmail.com

Office number

58

Research interests

Croatian language, dialectology, language history

About the teacher

Tena Babić Sesar was born on November 20, 1985, in Slavonski Brod. After completing elementary school and the Classical Gymnasium Fra Marijan Lanosović with public rights in Slavonski Brod, she enrolled in the study of Croatian Language and Literature and Librarianship at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. She graduated on June 23, 2011, earning the academic title of Professor of Croatian Language and Literature and Certified Librarian. From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek.

She participated in the realization of the following courses (exercises and seminars): History of the Croatian Grammatical System, History of the Croatian Literary Language, Croatian Dialectology, Slavonian Dialect, and the Kajkavian Dialect. She was a researcher in the scientific research project Slavonian Dialect (project leader: Prof. Dr. Ljiljana Kolenić). She also participated in the preparation, design, and execution of several outreach activities and was involved in organizing and conducting fieldwork.

She has participated in more than fifteen academic conferences and is the author or co-author of around twenty academic, professional, and popular papers. She is enrolled in the Doctoral Studies in Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, and is a member of Matica hrvatska.

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Tena Babić Sesar