Aleksandra Stojanovic

Academic Title: Instructor, Italian Language and Mediterranean Cultures

Office: EA3014
Email: astojanovic@mtroyal.ca
Phone: 403.440.7024

Education:
MA, Italian Language Studies, University of Belgrade
BA, Italian and English Studies, University of Belgrade

 

 

Scholarly Interests:
The main areas of my scholarly interests are sociolinguistics and language contact, lexical semantics, Mediterranean cultures, and second language pedagogy. I have extensively studied the influence of English as a global language on other languages, especially Italian.

Teaching Statement:
I have been teaching at Mount Royal since 2008. Between 2004 and 2016, I also worked as an Italian language instructor at the University of Calgary. Before immigrating to Canada, I taught beginner, intermediate and advanced language courses to children and adults, as well as large lectures and grammar courses at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Areas of Instruction at MRU:
ITAL 2221 - Topics in Italian Culture
MECU 1101 – Topics in Mediterranean Cultures
ITAL 1101 – Beginners’ Italian
ITAL 1103 – Beginners’ Italian II

Selected Publications:
Colussi Corte, Sonia Claudia. Il segreto dell’isola nuda. Edited by Aleksandra Stojanovic, Loretta Veri, and Laura G. Ferretti. Udine: Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese, 2015.

Stojanovic, Aleksandra. "Introduction: The Seed of Memory" in The Secret of Bald Island, by Claudia Sonia Colussi Corte.Translated by Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto: Club Giuliano Dalmato, 2023.

Book Reviews:

  • Stojanovic, Aleksandra. Review of Dove andare, dove tornare: Autori italiani dell’Istria, di Fiume e della Dalmazia dal Novecento al nuovo millennio, by Giusy Criscione and Patrizia Hansen. El Boletin, no. 180, December 2019, p. 18.
  • Stojanovic, Aleksandra. Review of A Blood Border: Trieste between Mussolini and Tito, by Luisa Morettin. El Boletin, no. 182, June 2020, p. 12.

Conference Presentations:

  • Stojanovic, Aleksandra. “The Counter-Exodus of Italians to Yugoslavia after WWII: The Case of Cherubino Colussi”. CAIS (Canadian Association for Italian studies) Annual Conference, 13 – 16 June 2019, Palazzo dei Congressi & Centro Studi, Orvieto, Italy. Conference Presentation.
  • Stojanovic, Aleksandra.“Italian captives in Yugoslavia after WWII”. AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) Annual Conference, 26 – 28 March, 2020, University of Arizona, Tucson. Conference Presentation.