Josip Periša is a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, and a doctoral student in Croatology. His areas of interest include literary theory and history, the history of the Croatian novel, aesthetics, philosophy of literature, ethics and bioethics.
In the project, he contributes to project workshops, the analysis of students’ interpretations and transmedia work, and the organisation of dissemination activities. He brings expertise in Croatian language and literature, the philosophy of art, ethics, argumentation and teaching methodology, with a particular interest in relationships between literature, values and critical reflection.
Teaching and professional activities
Josip Periša graduated in Croatian language and literature and philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. One of his master’s theses examined required reading in distance education.
As a representative of the Zagreb Student Debate Forum, he served as vice-chair of the organising committee of the 2022 European Universities Debating Championship in Zagreb.
He has presented papers on aesthetics, philosophy of literature, literary theory, the history of Croatian literature, and relationships between ethics and art at around fifty conferences.
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Josip Periša is a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, and a doctoral student in Croatology. He studied Croatian language and literature and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, focusing his research interests on literary theory and history, the history of the Croatian novel, aesthetics, philosophy of literature, ethics and bioethics.
In 2021, he completed two master’s theses with highest honours. In the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, he defended Required Reading in Distance Education: An Analysis of Video Lessons in the Croatian Language Subject, supervised by Professor Marko Alerić. In the Department of Philosophy, he defended The Argumentative Value of Art in Bioethical Research: The Example of Social Justice and Ivo Andrić’s Travnička hronika (Bosnian Chronicle), supervised by Professor Hrvoje Jurić.
During his studies, he received the Rector’s Award for original research for the paper A Philosophical Examination of Croatian Socialist Realist Criticism. As president of the Philosophy Students’ Association from 2018 to 2020, he also received the Franjo Marković Award for the annual international symposium Portraits of the Multitude, the Student Bioethics Workshop and the journal Čemu.
An important part of his experience is connected with debating and argumentation. He led debate clubs at Zagreb’s 13th Grammar School and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and served as vice-chair of the organising committee of the 2022 European Universities Debating Championship, held in Zagreb and organised by the Zagreb Student Debate Forum.
After graduating, he enrolled in the doctoral programme in Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, where he is employed as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Croatology. He is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation on the poetics of Croatian socialist realism in relation to the philosophy of historical materialism.
His research connects literature and philosophy, particularly aesthetics, philosophy of literature, literary theory and history, and relationships between ethics and art. He has presented on these topics at around fifty conferences.
Within IUČIP, Periša contributes to workshops, the analysis of students’ interpretations and transmedia work, and the organisation of dissemination activities. His expertise in Croatian language and literature, philosophy of art, ethics, argumentation and teaching methodology supports the study of relationships between literature, values and critical reflection.
