Prof. Dr. Maida Kosatica

Foto: © 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 violence and suffering, climate change discourse (in the broadest sense), semiotics of ecosystem services, and constructions of motherhood.

Prof. Dr. Maida Kosatica

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitätsstr. 2
45141 Essen
Room
R12 R05 A48
Phone
0201/183-3527
E-Mail
maida.kosatica@uni-due.de
Website
https://www.uni-due.de/anglistik/urban_semiotics/kosatica_maida

Functions

  • Juniorprofessor/in, Anglistik: Linguistik III

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.

    Books, Collections, Proceedings

  • Kosatica, Maida; Smith, Sean P. (Eds.)
    Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication
    New York: Routledge, 2025
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Kosatica, Maida
    The Burden of Traumascapes : Discourses of Remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Beyond
    London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022(Advances in Sociolinguistics)
    DOI

    • Journal articles

  • Kosatica, Maida; Ross, Melody Ann
    On the skids : Mediating anguish, visibilising abusive places
    In: Linguistic Landscape, Vol. 11, 2025, Nr. 2, pp. 172 – 197
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kosatica, Maida
    Sustainable, no matter what you buy : Profiling affordances of beefy landscapes
    In: Language in Society, Vol. 54, 2025, Nr. 5, pp. 1047 – 1069
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kosatica, Maida; Ziegler, Evelyn; Buchstaller, Isabelle
    From winding tower to Eiffel Tower (of the ruhr area) : The symbolic economy of industrial signs
    In: Multimodality & Society, Vol. 4, 2024, Nr. 4, pp. 402 – 432
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kosatica, Maida
    Semiotic landscape in a green capital
    In: Linguistic Landscape, Vol. 10, 2024, Nr. 2, pp. 136 – 165
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kosatica, Maida
    Building monuments, unleashing anger : The material disruption of contested memoryscapes
    In: Emotion, Space and Society, Vol. 48, 2023, 100963
    DOI
  • Kosatica, Maida
    102: The semiotics of living memorials
    In: Social Semiotics, Vol. 31, 2021, Nr. 5: Discourse and Affect, pp. 738 – 756
    DOI
  • Bilkic, Maida
    Emplacing hate : Turbulent graffscapes and linguistic violence in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
    In: Linguistic Landscape, Vol. 4, 2018, Nr. 1, pp. 1 – 28
    DOI

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • Smith, Sean P.; Kosatica, Maida; Perley, Bernard C.; Thurlow, Crispin; Smith, Sean P.
    Visual Essay : “Banal Sustainability”
    In: Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication / Kosatica, Maida; Smith, Sean P. (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 2025, pp. 23 – 35
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kosatica, Maida
    The walls of peril : Belligerent symbolics of post-war murals in Bosnia-Herzegovina
    In: Space-Time (Dis)continuities in the Linguistic Landscape: Studies in the Symbolic (Re-)appropriation of Public Space / Buchstaller, Isabelle; Fabiszak, Małgorzata; Ross, Melody (Eds.). New York: Taylor and Francis, 2024, pp. 209 – 228
    DOI
  • Kosatica, Maida
    Touring warscapes
    In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes / Blackwood, Robert; Tufi, Stefania; Amos, Will (Eds.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, pp. 369 – 387
  • Kosatica, Maida
    Sarajevo’s War Childhood Museum : A Social Semiotic Analysis of ‘Combi-Memorials’ as Spatial Texts
    In: Multilingual Memories: Monuments, Museums and the Linguistic Landscape / Blackwood, Robert; Macalister, John (Eds.). London: Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 161 – 184
    DOI

    • Prefaces/Postfaces

  • Moriarty, Máiréad; Kosatica, Maida
    Broken : Towards a vulnerability approach to SL research
    In: Linguistic Landscape. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, Vol. 11, 2025, Nr. 2, pp. 111 – 117
    DOI
  • Kosatica, Maida; Smith, Sean P.
    Introduction : Framing Sustainability
    In: Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication / Kosatica, Maida; Smith, Sean P. (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 2025, pp. 1 – 22
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Social Semiotics
  • Linguistic and Semiotic Landscapes
  • Discursive and multimodal approaches to violence, suffering and remembering
  • Historical trauma
  • Climate change discourse
  • Motherhood