senior lector

Chair for Macedonian language and literature

Office: B-210
Telephone number: 01/6120-110
E-mail: bpoliver@ffzg.hr

Office hours: Thursday, 12:30 – 14:00

Borjana Prošev-Oliver (b. in 1962) graduated in 1985 from the Department of general and comparative literature at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. After graduation she worked as a part-time external associate of the Third Channel of the Macedonian Radio and for the Art and Culture Section of the Macedonian TV. From 1986 she has been employed as a lector for Macedonian language at the Chair for Macedonian language and literature, the Department of South Slavic languages and literatures at the time, of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, within which she teaches an obligatory two-semester course Contemporary Macedonian Language. When the Department was transformed and re-named the Department of Croatian and South Slavic Philologies, and after the academic year 1995/96, when the Chair for Macedonian language and literature became part of the Department of Slavic languages and literature within Slavic studies major, she taught in the same course as an elective study programme among the South Slavic languages and literatures, being a minor study programme. In the academic year 1998/99 a new four-year study programme in Macedonian language and literature begins as one of South Slavic double majors, where she taught the same course. In 2005/06 a new reformed Bologna M.A. study programme required additional changes and more demanding a syllabus of the Contemporary Macedonian Language course. At the translation graduate study programme she was module coordinator of Translation Exercises course and a seminar during which all styles of texts were translated from Croatian into Macedonim from the academic year 2009/10 to 2010/11. She teaches in all the study programmes Macedonian normative and descriptive grammar, history of Macedonian and Macedoniam language from a sociolinguist perspective. In 2005 she enrolled in a literature postgraduate doctoral study programme with specialisation in cultural studies. She earned her doctoral degree in 2009 defending a doctoral thesis entitled Exile in Macedoniam Literature with Prof. Borislav Pavlovski as supervisor. Since 2006 she has often presented her papers at Croatian-and-Macedonian conferences entitled Croatian and Macedonian Literary, Language and Cultural Relations which are held in Croatia and Macedonia, and at the conferences in Macedonia organized by Institute of Macedonian literature in Skopje. She has contributed with her papers to a project Slavic Languages in Comparison with Croatian under project leader Dubravka Sesar, Ph.D.