Prof. Dr. Maida Kosatica
Maida Kosatica has a background in Sociolinguistics, having completed her PhD at the University of Bern and MA at the University of Zadar. Between 2015–2018 she was a doctoral assistant in Language and Communication at the Department of English in Bern. After parental leave between 2019-2020, Maida joined the Department of Anglophone Studies in April 2021 as a Junior Professor of Urban Semiotics and Semantics. Her research, with a strong interdisciplinary orientation, focuses on different meaning-making systems that interact with the visuals, geographical contexts, environments and human interventions. Her main interest lies in understanding the politics of emotions, violence, social inequalities and sustainability in/of urban spaces.
Current work
Maida’s current work focuses on the role and the representational politics of visual (digital) communication, seeking, ultimately, to understand the potential visual messaging has for turning monitorial citizens into morally engaged “activists”. This research takes as its specific empirical focus mass-mediatized representations of children’s suffering. Maida is concerned with the contemporary visual representations of “distant” children’s bodies stylized for public and digital media consumption, especially in the contexts of Global South poverty and “Flüchtlingskrise”. Along these lines and considering that migration is expected to increase, as climate change exacerbates the deterioration of the living conditions of vulnerable populations (especially across the Middle East and parts of Africa), Maida is investigating environmental inequalities disadvantaged or minority populations and territories suffer from. This project looks at the semiotics of (green) urban spaces which favour the wealthy and well-connected.
Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik
45141 Essen
Functions
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Juniorprofessor/in, Anglistik: Linguistik III
Current lectures
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2024 WS
Past lectures
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2024 SS
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2023 WS
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2023 SS
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2022 WS
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2022 SS
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2021 WS
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2021 SS
The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.
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Semiotic landscape in a green capitalIn: Linguistic Landscape Vol. 10 (2024) Nr. 2, pp. 136 - 165Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
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Building monuments, unleashing anger : The material disruption of contested memoryscapesIn: Emotion, Space and Society Vol. 48 (2023) 100963Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
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102: The semiotics of living memorialsIn: Social Semiotics Vol. 31 (2021) Nr. 5: Discourse and Affect, pp. 738 - 756Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
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Emplacing hate : Turbulent graffscapes and linguistic violence in post-war Bosnia-HerzegovinaIn: Linguistic Landscape Vol. 4 (2018) Nr. 1, pp. 1 - 28Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
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The walls of peril : Belligerent symbolics of post-war murals in Bosnia-HerzegovinaIn: Space-Time (Dis)continuities in the Linguistic Landscape: Studies in the Symbolic (Re-)appropriation of Public Space / Buchstaller, Isabelle; Fabiszak, Małgorzata; Ross, Melody (Eds.) 2024, pp. 209 - 228Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
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Sarajevo’s War Childhood Museum : A Social Semiotic Analysis of ‘Combi-Memorials’ as Spatial TextsIn: Multilingual Memories: Monuments, Museums and the Linguistic Landscape / Blackwood, Robert; Macalister, John (Eds.) 2019, pp. 161 - 184Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
Journal articles
Book articles / Proceedings papers
- Social Semiotics
- Linguistic and Semiotic Landscapes
- Discursive and multimodal approaches to violence, suffering and remembering
- Historical trauma
- Environmental discourse and inequalities
Kosatica, M. (in progress). Touring warscapes. In R. Blackwood, S. Tufi & W. Amos (eds.) Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Kosatica, M. (in progress). Destroying monuments, unleashing wrath: The material disruption of contested memoryscapes. [Special issue: Temporal Landscapes], Language in Society.
Kosatica, M. (2020). 102: The semiotics of living memorials. [Special issue: Affect and Discourse], Social Semiotics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2020.1810557
Kosatica, M. (2019). Sarajevo’s War Childhood Museum: A social semiotic analysis of “combi-memorials” as spatial texts. In R. Blackwood & J. Macalister (eds.) Multilingual Memories: Museums and Monuments in Linguistic Landscapes. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Kosatica, M. (2018). Emplacing hate: Traumatic graffscapes and linguistic violence in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. Linguistic Landscape Journal, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.17011.bil