Research Associate and Librarian at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
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nina.ditmajer@zrc-sazu.si
Nina Ditmajer Prando’s research interests include the history of Slovenian language, Eastern Styrian standard language, Bible translations, Slovenian sermons and Slovenian ecclesiastical and secular poetry from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Styria.
Ed.: Foglar, Lovrenc: Foglarjeva pesmarica: editio princeps. Elektronska znanstvenokritična izdaja. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC SAZU, 2021.
Slovenian Writers and Imperial Censorship in the Long Nineteenth Century (fundamental research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
Nina Ditmajer Prando was born in 1988 in Maribor. After attending elementary and secondary school in Slovenska Bistrica, she studied Slovenian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. She also studied at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana. In 2019, she obtained her PhD in Linguistics with a dissertation on the reception of Eastern Styrian literary norms in the manuscript sermons of Jožef Muršec, which was supervised by Professor Marko Jesenšek at the University of Maribor. In 2020, she also obtained a PhD in Literary Studies with a thesis on the poetry in Slovenian Styria from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century; this thesis was supervised by Luka Vidmar at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU. From 2010–2013, Ditmajer Prando was editor-in-chief of Liter jezika, a student journal of literary and linguistic studies; and from 2014–2016, she was editor-in-chief of the theological journal Qolloquia. From 2012–2014, she was a recepient of the scholarship of Stanislav Škrabec’s Association; in 2019, she received the Dr Bojan Erhatič Fellowship at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She serves on the editorial boards of the journals Edinost in dialog and Tretji dan. In 2024, she became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slovene Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.