Department of Croatian Studies

Head of Department:

Valentina Majdenić, Associate Professor, Ph.D.

Name and surname	Valentina Majdenić, Ph.D.
Title	Associate Professor
e-mail	vmajdenic@foozos.hr
Office Nr.	47
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
List of publications (link to CROSBI)	https://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=290546

Members of Department:

Emina Berbić Kolar, Associate Professor, Ph.D.

First and last name	Emina Berbić Kolar, Ph.D.
Profession	Associate Professor
Email	eberbic@foozos.hr , ebkolar@gmail.com
Office number	Deans Office
Research interests	Croatian language, Dialectology, Communications, Sociolinguistics
	Associate Proffessor Emina Berbić Kolar was born on October 24, 1976 in Slavonski Brod. She finished elementary and high school (secondary school, Faculty of science) after which she enrolled at the Faculty of Education at the University Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek (today the faculty of philosophy) in the study of the Croatian language and literature which ended in 2000 and acquired her professional vocation. In the academic year of 2000/2001, she enrolled in postgraduate studies, then Pedagogical, today's Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek, under the *title Croatian Language and Literature in the Context of Central European Languages and Literature, focusing on linguistic science.* She enrolled in a dislocated doctorine study in January 2007 and received her Ph.D. on September 8, 2009, with the theme of *Speaking of Slavonian Dialect in the Brod Region.* At the Faculty, she conducts lectures for different courses; Croatian language, Language culture, Slavonic dialect, Homeland idiom, Written and oral communication, Lexicology and word formation, Croatian language and communication, Public speech, Language cultural heritage, Functional styles of Croatian literary language, Language-communication skills. She has written forty professional and scientific papers and is the co-author of three books: Sichuan Riches, Slavonic Folk Medicine Lexicon, Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: Definitions, Approaches and Guidelines. She has advanced professionally in this country and abroad (Turkey, Poland, Great Britain, Finland, Germany, Austria, Norway, Hungary). She is a member of editorial offices in two international journals: Evkonyv (Serbia), Oral History (Turkey) and two domestic journals Life and School and Pannonian.
List of publications (link to CROSBI)	http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=312451

Lidija Bakota, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Ime i prezime	dr. sc. Lidija Bakota
Zvanje	Docentica Predsjednica Katedre za književnost
e-mail	lbakota@foozos.hr
Broj ureda	44
Istraživački interesi	Znanstveno je zanimanje usmjereno prema ranom učenju hrvatskoga jezika,pisanjem i proučavanjem udžbeničke građe namijenjene učenicima mlađe školske dobi. U središtu znanstvenoga istraživanja su i strategije razumijevanja pri čitanju književnih i informativnih tekstova u razrednoj nastavi.
	Doc. dr. sc. Lidija Bakota zaposlena je na Fakultetu za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku. Doktorat znanosti stekla je 2010. godine obranivši doktorsku disertaciju Komunikacijski model govornih vježbi u osnovnnoj školi na Filozofskome fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Od 2012. u zvanju je docentice znanosti iz znanstvenog područja humanističke znanosti – kroatistika na Fakultetu za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku. Osim znanstvenoga rada suradnica je i u pisanju udžbenika hrvatskoga jezika za mlađu školsku dob. Bila je članica Erasmus K2 projekta Pacemaking the education and employment: answers to new challenges and apportunities (kratica projekta: P-EE, kod projekta: 7E470F9E5337D292. Podatci o projektu dostupni su na: http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus-plus/national-agencies_en.htm ) u razdoblju od 1.10. 2016. do 31. 3. 2018. (18 mjeseci). Nositelj je projekta za Hrvatsku bilo Pučko otvoreno učilište Koprivnica, a Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti u Osijekubio je partner na projektu za Hrvatsku. Suradnicu su na projektu bili: Spoleczna Akademia Nauk (Poljska, www.san.edu.pl), Infor Elea (Italija, www.inforelea.academy ), Slovo 21 (Češka, www.slovo21.cz), MBM Training and Development Center lTD (Velika Britanija, www.mbmtraining.uk ) i Vlnius „Židinio“ (Litva, www.zidinio.vilnius.Im.It) Projekt je nastao iz potrebe usklađivanja obrazovnog sustava i tržišta rada. Temeljni je cilj projekta kreiranje inovativnog kurikuluma za obrazovanje i osposobljavanje zaposlenika obrazovnih ustanova s ciljem povećanja njihovih kompetencija za rad s migrantima, azilantima i Romima kao sekundarnih ciljnih grupa. Kao članica projekta sudjelovala je u izradi kurikuluma usmjerenog na osposobljavanje polaznika za inovativno zanimanje ''Stručnjak za koordinaciju obrazovanja i zapošljavanja''. Sudjelovala je u izradi četiriju kurikula: Modul 1. Andragoški modeli poučavanja (Expert for coordination of education and employment); Modul 2. Moderne komunikacijske tehnologije (Modern communication technology); Modul 3. Upravljanje ljudskim potencijalima: istraživanje, analiza, planiranje i realizacija (Human Resources Management: research, analysis, planning and implementation); Modul 4. Međukulturalne kompetencije (Cross cultural competence). Po završetku navednoga programa polaznici će stečenim zvanjem doprinijeti uključivanju spomenutih sekundarnih ciljnih grupa u procese obrazovanja i zapošljavanja u sredini u kojoj žive. Kao članica projekta izradila je u suautorstvu brošuruPacemaking the education and employment: answers to new challenges and opportunities'.
Popis publikacija (poveznica na CROSBI)	http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=290535

Irena Krumes, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Name and surname	Irena Krumes, Ph.D.
Profession	Assistant professor
E-mail	ikrumes@foozos.hr ikrumes@gmail.com
Office number	00385 35 492647
Consultation hours	Monday 9 am – 11 am Thursday 10 am – 11 am
Research interests	Language and Linguistics, Didactics of Languages, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Acquisition
	Irena Krumes, Assistant Professor, was born in 1973 in Slavonski Brod, where she finished primary school and grammar school. She graduated from Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (study programme: Croatian Language and Literature). In 2000/2001 she enrolled Postgraduate study programme Croatian Language and Literature in the Context of Central European Languages and Literature, module: Linguistics at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, where she defended her Master's Thesis in 2007, and her PhD Thesis on 21 November 2012. From 2001 – 2007 she worked as Professional Associate at Faculty of Education in Osijek (located in Slavonski Brod), and since 2007 as Assistant of Prof. Irena Vodopija at the course Methodology of Teaching the Croatian Language I and II. From 2008 – 2010 she worked as Associate with Prof. Ljiljana Kolenić and Prof. Loretana Farkaš at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, at the following courses: History of Croatian language, History of Croatian Literary Language, History of Croatian Grammar System, Croatian Historical Lexicology. Currently, she is employed at Faculty of Education in Osijek (located in Slavonski Brod). In 2013, she was elected to associate title of Senior Assistant, and in 2017 she was elected to the scientific title of Research Associate in the scientific area of Humanities – field of Philology, and scientific-educational title of Assistant Professor. She is head of the following courses: Croatian Language Methodology I and II, Correlation-integration System in the Teaching of Croatian Language, Children's Literature. She also teaches at Undergraduate university study Early and Preschool Education where she holds the following courses: Language Games, Reading and Writing Pre-exercises, Children's Literature with Media Culture. Since 2004 she has published more than 30 scientific and 10 professional papers. Her Scientist Identification Number (MZOS) is 299574. She has participated in approximately 30 scientific and professional conferences, both national and international (approximately 20). In 2016/2017 and 2017/2018, she was a supervisor at state Matura Exam in several Counties in Slavonia. She is a member of Programme Committee of the manifestation In the Fairy Tale World of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić in Slavonski Brod, and a member of the Expert Committee for the Lidrano Competition (2009-2019). She is the president of the Committee for the Best Literary Essays of Primary School Pupils in the Republic of Croatia, as a part of the manifestation In the Fairy Tale World of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (2009-2019). She is the Vice-president of Matrix Croatica (Matica hrvatska), Slavonski Brod.
List of publications (link to CROSBI)	https://www.bib.irb.hr/pretraga?by=author&q=Krumes%2C+Irena+%28299574%29&page=2

Nina Mance, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Dubravka Smajić, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Name and surname	Dubravka Smajić, Ph.D.
Profession	Assistant professor
E-mail	dsmajic@foozos.hr
Office number	48
Consultation hours	Tuesday at 9,35 am
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 With her coworkers she founded the centre of European Consortium for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages in Osijek (ECL) for the Republic of Croatia, which compiles authorized Croatian language for testing language knowledge in the EU 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) Member of the editorial board of conference proceedings Children and Languages Today (since 2001)
List of publications (link to CROSBI)	https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/znanstvenici/221402?autor=221402

Ivana Trtanj, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Vedrana Živković Zebec, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Mirta Bijuković Maršić, Lecturer

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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.
List of publications (CROSBI link)	http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=306963

Name and surname	Ivana Trtanj, Ph.D.
Profession	Assistant professor
E-mail	itrtanj@foozos.hr
Office number	48
Office hours	Tuesday at 11.30 am
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.
List of publications (CROSBI link)	https://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=303993

Name and surname	Mirta Bijuković Maršić
Title	Lecturer
e-mail	mmarsic@foozos.hr
Office Nr.	47
Research interests	Philology, History and teory of literature
	Mirta Bijuković Maršić (Osijek, 1981.) is a 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.
List of publications (CROSBI link)	https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/znanstvenici/291955?chunk=50

Ime i prezime	dr. sc. Vedrana Živković Zebec
Zvanje	docentica
e-mail	vzivkovic@foozos.hr
Broj ureda	48
Istraživački interesi	Dječja književnost, dječji roman, dječja medijska kultura i poticanje čitanja
	Znanstveno zanimanje dr. sc. Vedrane Živković Zebec usmjereno je prema dječjoj književnosti, posebice dječjemu romanu, dječjoj medijskoj kulturi i poticanju čitanja. Obranila je doktorsku disertaciju pod naslovom Romani Ante Gardaša u kontekstu hrvatske dječje književnosti 2014. godine. Sudjeluje na domaćim i inozemnim znanstvenim skupovima. Znanstvene radove i stručne prikaze objavljuje u domaćim i inozemnim časopisima. Znanstvena je suradnica na GIP-projektupod nazivom Spuren deutscher Sprache, Literatur und Kultur in Kroatien – von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart [Tragovi njemačkoga jezika, književnosti i kulture na tlu Hrvatske – od početaka do današnjice]. U okviru stručne djelatnosti obavljala je dužnost tajnice međunarodnoga znanstvenog skupa Zlatni danci (od 2010. do 2013.). Članica je Organizacijskoga odbora međunarodnoga znanstvenog skupa Dijete i jezik danas (2013. i 2017.). U suradnji s Gradskom i sveučilišnom knjižnicom u Osijeku kao predstavnica Fakulteta za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti uključena je u Nacionalna kampanja za poticanje čitanja naglas djeci od najranije dobi Čitaj mi! Članica je Hrvatske udruge istraživača dječje književnosti.
Popis publikacija (poveznica na CROSBI)	https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/znanstvenici/312495?order_by=date_inserted_asc