external associate lecturer for Serbian language

E-mail: dianne@teol.net

Dijana Crnjak (née Savić) was born on May 7 1972 in Banjaluka. She graduated from the Department of Serbian language and literature of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad in 1997, and on the same institution she earned her magister’s degree in 2001 and her doctoral degree in 2005. Being the best postgraduate of the generation, she won a scholarship by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Serbia.

She has worked at the Department of Serbian language and literature of the Faculty of Philology (University of Banjaluka) since September 2001; first she was employed as a senior assistant for the course Contemporary Serbian Language II (Morphology of Serbian Language); from 2005 she was assistant professor for the course Contemporary Serbian Language II (Syntax of Serbian Language); since October 2010 she has been associate professor for the same course.

Since summer semester of the 2006/7 academic year she has been a guest professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb for the following courses: Phonetics and Phonology of the Serbian Language; Lexicology and Lexicography of the Serbian Language; Syntax of Serbian Language; Stylistics of Serbian Language; Discourse Analysis; Language – Culture – Society on the graduate study level.

She is a collaborator and/or a coordinator of a number of projects in Serbian lexicology and syntax in Serbia and Serbian Republic.

On her home institution she is the head of a language postgraduate study programme, as well as a member of the editoral board of the Filolog journal.

She is a member of the Society of the Members of Matica srpska in Serbian Republic.