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| 2020 | Member of ERC Scientific Council |
| 2014 | Chair of the ERC Advanced Grant Panel SH4 “The Human Mind and Its Complexity“ |
| 2013 | Full Member of Academia Europaea |
| 2010 | Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| 2008 | Full Professor |
| 2002-11 | Chair of Linguistics, Department of English, University of Zagreb |
| 2002-10 | Associate Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| 1996 | Associate Professor |
| 1995/96 | New York State University at Buffalo (SUNY), teaches course European Structuralism vs. Cognitive Linguistics, graduate level for PhD candidates in Linguistics and Cognitive Science |
| 1990 | Assistant Professor |
| 1989 | PhD in Linguistics at the University of Zagreb |
| 1984/85 | Doctoral Fulbright scholarship, Linguistics Department, UCLA |
| 1982 | MA in Linguistics at the University of Zagreb |
| 1978 | Assistant, Chair of Linguistics, English Department, University of Zagreb |
| 1977 | BA in English language and literature, and ethnology, University of Zagreb |
Research interests
Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, discourse analysis, syntax, sociolinguistics
Undergraduate courses
Semantics
Graduate courses
Cognitive Linguistics
(Linguistic seminars: Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Syntax – not on offer in 2012-13)
PhD courses
PhD Programme in Linguistics, University of Zagreb: Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, and American linguistics
PhD Programme in FL Education, University of Zagreb: Cognitive Linguistics
PhD Programme in Linguistics, University of Osijek: Semantics, and European Structuralism vs. Cognitive Linguistics
Other
| 2009- | Chair of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (ESF) |
| 2009- | Chair of the Council for the Humanities of the National Science Council in Croatia |
| 2008- | Member of ERC Panel (European Research Council) “The Human Mind and Its Complexity” for Advanced Grants |
| 2005-2008 | Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation |
| 2005- | Member of the Editorial Board of Jezikoslovlje |
| 2003- | Member of the Committee for National Science Awards in the Humanities, Croatia |
| 2003-2009 | Member of the Council for Scholarly Publications and Journals of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports |
| 1999–2000 | Minister of Science and Technology |
| 1998-2002 | Member of the National Scientific Council of Croatia |
| 1994-1999 | Member of the Council for Linguistics and the Croatian language, Ministry of Science and Technology |
| 1994-1995 | Chair of the Council for Scholarly Publications and Journals, Ministry of Science and Technology |
| 1991-1998 | Editor-in-Chief of journal Suvremena lingvistika |
| 1978-1988 | Member and editorial assistant of journal Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia |
Scientific Research Projects
2007 – Principal researcher: Theoretical cognitive linguistic research of Croatian and other languages, (Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, project no. 130-1301049-1047)
2005 – 2007 Principal researcher: Cognitive linguistic research of Croatian and English (Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, project no. 0130547)
1996 – 2001 Principal researcher: Semantic fields and syntax (Ministry of Science and Technology, project no. 130719)
1991 – 1996 Principal researcher: Principles of lexical organization at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (Ministry of Science and Technology project no. 6-03-217)
Selected bibliography
Books
° Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion. (eds. Brdar, Mario, Gries, stefan, Žic Fuchs, Milena). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. (monograph)
° Kognitivna lingvistika i jezične strukture: engleski present perfect. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus, 2009. (monograph)
° Rječnik kratica. (with Stjepan Babić, Vlatko Broz i Sanja Fulgosi). Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus, 2007. (dictionary)
° Znanje o jeziku i znanje o svijetu. Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za opću lingvistiku i orijentalne studije, 1991. (monograph)
Articles
“Communication technologies and their influence on language: Reshuffling tenses in Croatian SMS text messaging” (with Nina Tuđman Vuković). In: Jezikoslovlje 9, 2008., 1-2, pp. 109-122
“Metaphorical processes as basis of proper names” (with Dunja Brozović Rončević). In: Quaderni Internazionali di Rivista italiana di onomastica: RIOn International Series 1. 1, 2005., pp. 33-44
“Communication technologies and their influence on language: an example from Croatian”. In: Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. 47-48. 2002-2003. pp. 597-608
“’Here’ and ‘There’ in Croatian: A Case Study of an Urban Standard Variety”. In: The Construal of Space in language and Thought, Dirven, René, Pütz, Martin (eds.), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997., pp. 49-62
° Interview: New ERC Scientific Council Member, linguist Milena Žic Fuchs (29 April 2020)
Complete bibliography
http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=83311&lang=EN
Full biography available at
http://info.hazu.hr/en/member_of_academy/personal_pages/m_z_fuchs_en
