Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
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andrejka.zejn@zrc-sazu.si
Andrejka Žejn works on scholarly editions and linguistic analysis of unknown Slovenian seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manuscripts.
Izhodišča slovenske pripovedne proze. Dvestoletna tradicija slovenske pripovedne proze: od sredine 17. do sredine 19. stoletja. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2021.
Co-ed. (w. Maja Bitenc and Marko Stabej:) Sociolingvistično iskrenje. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba FF UL, 2021.
(W. Ludvik Karničar:) Alfabetarij k Tezavru slovenskega ljudskega jezika na Koroškem. Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 2018.
(W. Emmerich Kelih, Tatjana Vučajnk and Catharina Krebs-Garić:) Slovensko-nemški tematski slovar: osnovno in razširjeno besedišče / Grund- und Aufbauwortschatz Slowenisch-Deutsch. Klagenfurt etc.: Mohorjeva Hermagoras, 2018.
Ed. (w. Stanislav Hafner, Erich Prunč and Ludvik Karničar): Thesaurus der slowenischen Volkssprache in Kärnten. Band 7. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012.
Ed. (w. Stanislav Hafner, Erich Prunč and Ludvik Karničar): Thesaurus der slowenischen Volkssprache in Kärnten. Band 6. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009.
The Beginnings of the Original Slovenian Narrative Tradition as Literature for Young and Adult Readers. Libri liberorum 59 (2023): 35–47.
(W. Mojca Šorli:) Named Entities in Modernist Literary Texts: The Annotation and Analysis of the May68 Corpus. Slovenščina 2.0 11.1 (2023): 118–37.
A Literary ‘picture of the world’ as a Criticism of Society in Slovenian Biedermeier Literature. Literaturna mis’’l 63.2 (2022): 72–83.
Obir-Dialekt. Trans. Maja Francé. In: Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška: von den Anfängen bis 1942. Band 2. Ed. Katja Sturm-Schnabl and Bojan-Ilija Schnabl. Vienna: Böhlau, 2016. 956–57.
Slovenian Writers and Imperial Censorship in the Long Nineteenth Century (fundamental research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
May ’68 in Literature and Theory: The Last Season of Modernism in France, Slovenia, and the World (fundamental research project • July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2021)
The Bases of Slovenian Narrative Prose (postdoctoral research project • August 1, 2018 - July 31, 2020)
History of Doctoral Dissertations by Slovene Candidates in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1872–1918) (interdisciplinary project • January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018)
Slovenian Literature in Unknown Early Modern Manuscripts. Information-Technology Aided Analyses and Scholarly Editions (fundamental research project • August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2016)
The Lexicon and the Course of Lexical Isoglosses in Slovene Dialects in Austrian Carinthia (applied research project • July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2010)
Andrejka Žejn was born in 1977 in Šempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia. She visited the Veno Pilon High School in Ajdovščina. She studied comparative literature and Slovene studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where she also defended her dissertation titled Defining the Course of Isolexes in Slovenian Dialects in Austrian Carinthia. After obtaining her BA, she was a teaching assistant at the University in Nova Gorica. In 2005, she joined a project group at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz, where she worked on the Thesaurus der slowenischen Volkssprache in Kärnten (Dictionary of Slovene Popular Speech in Carinthia), headed by Ludvik Karničar. At first, she worked on the project as an exchange student and later on as a project member affiliated to the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From 2007 to 2011 she continued her work on the project as an affiliate of the Slovenian Research Institute Vienna. Since 2015, she has worked as a researcher at The Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.