Danica Pušić received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. She received her B.A. in Classical Studies at the University of Belgrade and M.A. at the University La Sapienza in Rome. In January 2011, she was Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. In September 2011, she started teaching Classics at John Cabot University in Rome. She also teaches at Trinity College Rome Campus and at Temple University in Rome.
Danica Pušić’s research focuses on verbal aspect and tense in Latin as well as in Slavic languages. She also published the translation into Serbo-Croatian of Nicolaus Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). This is the first complete translation into Serbo-Croatian of of the work from the original Latin (1543).
Professor Pušić was the winner of the Open Society Institute’s Grants for three years for research-focused topic of social and political interest for the Balkans.
She is also the official translator and interpreter at the Rome Criminal Tribunal (Italian – Serbo-Croatian; Serbo-Croatian – Italian).
Degrees
B.A. in Classics, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
M.A. in Classics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.
Ph.D. candidate in Classics and Linguistics, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy.
Courses Taught
Latin 2002
Selected Publications
Pušić, Danica. (in press). “Paideia and Humanitas”. Humanisms and Beyond: Paideia, Artes Liberales and the Future of Higher Education. Budapest: Trivent Publishing.
Copernicus, Nicolaus. 2014. Šest Knjiga O Kruženjima Nebeskih Sfera. Translated from Latin by Danica Pušić and Natalija Veljković. Novi Sad: Akademska Knjiga.
Pušić, Danica. 2013. “Past in the Serbian Variant of Serbo-Croatian: Distribution of Verbal Tenses in Various Register.” Scando-Slavica 59 (1): 108–137.