B.A., University of Belgrade, 2005
M. A., Sapienza University of Rome, 2006
Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2022
Danica Pušić, who joined JCU in 2011, received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. She received her M.A. from Sapienza University of Rome and her B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.
In 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.
Professor Pušić’s research focuses on verbal aspects and tenses in Latin as well as in Slavic languages. She published the first complete translation from Latin into Serbo-Croatian of Nicolaus Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres,1543).
Professor Pušić was the winner of the Open Society Institute’s Grant for three years for a 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).
At John Cabot, Professor Pušić teaches Latin and Ancient Greek at all levels.
