Maja Bezić
Title: Associate Professor
Wednesday, 12.00 - 13.00 h
undergraduate
graduate
Maja Bezić is an associate professor and the Chair in Italian Language at the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. She teaches courses in Italian language and linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level. Her research interests include contact and cognitive linguistics and the history of the Italian language.
Bezić Maja; Grubić, Dora (2025). Osservazioni sugli italianismi nella parlata odierna di Spalato. In M. Załęska and G. Fiorentino (ed.), Lingua come bene culturale. Vol. I Lingua, retorica, didattica. Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski – Katedra Italianistyki.
Bezić, Maja – Bralić, Snježana (2025). Le immagini metaforiche nel rapporto uomo–animale dall'italiano al croato. In S. Tamaro, E. Moscarda Mirković and N. Poropat Jeletić (ed.), Filigrane linguistiche e letterarie. Scritti in onore di Goran Filipi. Milano: Prospero Editore, 201–218.
Bezić, Maja (2025). Il contributo di Giulio Bajamonti e Vincenzo Drago alle discussioni sulla lingua italiana nel secondo Settecento e primo Ottocento. In A. Bukvić, A. Jusup Magazin and S. Paša Maračić, Preko mora. Studije u čast profesora Živka Nižića. / Oltre il mare. Studi in onore del professor Živko Nižić. Zadar: Sveučilište u Zadru, 297–308.
Bezić, Maja; Petrović, Ivana (2022). The power of bellicose rhetoric: metaphors in the Croatian public discourse. Fluminensia, 34/2, 397–415.
Bezić, Maja; Čudina Turčinov, Nevena (2022). Funkcija talijanizama u novinskim tekstovima Miljenka Smoje. In M. Matešić and M. Nigoević (ed.), Jezično i izvanjezično u međudjelovanju. Zagreb: Srednja Europa – HDPL, 359–371.
Bezić, Maja; Bralić, Snježana (edited by / a cura di) (2021). Hrvatsko-talijanske filološke studije u čast profesorici emeriti Ljerki Šimunković / Studi filologici croato-italiani in onore della professoressa emerita Ljerka Šimunković. Split: Filozofski fakultet Split.
Petrović, Ivana; Bezić, Maja (2020). Metafora u medijskom diskursu o migracijama. In M. Matešić and B. Martinović (ed.), Značenje u jeziku od individualnog do kolektivnog. Zagreb: Srednja Europa – HDPL, 75–87.
Bezić, Maja; Petrović, Ivana (2019). Diskursne strategije u medijskom prikazu migranata. Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu, 12, 81–97.
Bralić, Snježana; Bezić, Maja; Bilić, Maja (2019). Le parole in cammino: il fenomeno della migrazione nel lessico italiano. In E. Moscarda Mirković and T. Habrle (ed.), Sguardo sull'immaginario italiano. Aspetti linguistici, letterari e culturali. Galižana: Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, 177–192.
Bezić, Maja (2016). Semantička adaptacija talijanizama u splitskom govoru. Fluminensia 28/2, 39-51.
Bezić, Maja; Kalebić, Lovorka (2015). Gli italianismi nella fraseologia dialettale croata: il caso della parlata di Spalato. Quaestiones Romanicae III/2, 428-435
Bezić, Maja (2014). Julije Bajamonti i pitanje talijanskog književnog jezika. In Peša Matracki, Ivica et al. (ed.), Zbornik Međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa u spomen na prof. dr. Žarka Muljačića (1922.–2009.). Zagreb: FF Press, 505–512.
Šimunković, Ljerka; Kezić, Maja (2004). Glosar kuhinjske i kulinarske terminologije romanskog podrijetla u splitskome dijalektu. Split: Dante Alighieri.
Member of professional associations AIPI (Associazione internazionale pofessori di lingua italiana), AISLLI (Associazione Internazionale per gli studi di lingua e letteratura Italiana), AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian), HDPL (Hrvatsko društvo za primijenjenu lingvistiku), HFD (Hrvatsko filološko društvo) and DA (Societa' Dante Alighieri) in whose Split branch she served as Treasurer, member of the Editorial Board for Publications, Vice-President, and member of the Executive Board.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the journal SPONDE: Časopis za jezike, književnosti i kulture između dviju obala Jadrana (2021-present).
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Mogućnosti (2017-2025).
Member of the Editorial Secretariat of the journal Adriatico/Jadran: Rivista di cultura tra le due sponde (2005–2017).
2001–2002 – Teacher of Italian and English in primary and secondary schools, as well as at Società Dante Alighieri in Split.
2002–2004 – Research Assistant on the project Dalmatia from the Fall of the Serenissima to the National Revival (Project No. 0258002), funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia and led by Prof. Lj. Šimunković, at the Department of Italian Language and Literature, Department of Humanities, University of Split.
2004–2012 – Teaching and Research Assistant, and subsequently Senior Teaching and Research Assistant, at the Department of Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split.
2012–2017 – Assistant Professor in the field of Humanities, discipline of Philology, subfield of Romance Studies, at the Department of Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split.
2017 - Associate Professor in the field of Humanities, discipline of Philology, subfield of Romance Studies, at the Department of Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split.