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Marija Stefanović is a full Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Toronto (2001) and has been continuously employed at the University of Novi Sad since 1989, progressing from assistant to full professor in 2022. She teaches courses in Russian morphology, history of the Russian language, cognitive semantic analysis, and comparative cognitive semantics.
Her research focuses on cognitive semantics and Slavic ethnolinguistics, particularly the conceptualization of value systems and verbal associations in Russian and Serbian. She co-authored the two-volume Associative Dictionary of the Serbian Language and contributes to international projects on Slavic language and culture.
Her publications include monographs on cognitive semantics, dictionaries, and proceedings analyzing concepts like animacy, "dom" (house), "mother", and "health" through experimental methods and semantic hierarchies. Notably, her 2022 monograph In the Labyrinth of Words synthesizes two decades of research.
Scientific roles:
- Member, Commission for Ethnolinguistics, International Committee of Slavists
- Permanent associate member, Matica srpska
- Editorial board member, journal Slavistics
- Co-editor, international proceedings
She has mentored numerous students in Serbian and Russian language studies but no specific names are listed. Her work emphasizes the intersection of semantic theory and Slavic language/cultural analysis.