Vladimira Rezo is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb. Her work focuses on narratology, media culture, visual communication and literary texts in educational contexts.
In the project, she contributes to the analysis of narrative patterns, student reception and relationships between literary texts and the contemporary audiovisual environment. She contributes particularly to the development of instruments for monitoring literary and media literacy and to theoretically grounded interpretations of students’ responses.
Teaching and professional activities
She has taught at the Faculty of Croatian Studies since 2014, initially as an external associate, and has been employed in the Department of Communication Studies since 2018. As an external associate, she also taught at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, both at its main campus in Zagreb and at the Petrinja Department.
She has been a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Libri & Liberi since 2020 and served as the journal’s secretary from 2014. She is a member of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Teacher Education and of the Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature.
She has participated in the organising and programme committees of international scholarly conferences devoted to children’s literature and culture.
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Associate Professor Vladimira Rezo teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb. She graduated in Croatian language and literature in 1997, earned her master’s degree in 2003, and completed her doctoral dissertation, Novohistorističko čitanje časopisa Savremeni pogledi [A New Historicist Reading of the Journal Savremeni pogledi], under the supervision of Professor Vinko Brešić in 2011.
Her research interests include children’s literature, contemporary literary theories—particularly new historicism, spatial theory and ecocriticism—and the history of the Croatian language.
She is the author of the scholarly book Provincija je gusta masa [The Province Is a Dense Mass] (2014), thirty scholarly articles and more than forty other publications.
She began her professional career working on the publishing project Stoljeća hrvatske književnosti [Centuries of Croatian Literature] at Matica hrvatska, where she was employed from 1998 to 1999. After working at the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, she joined the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics in 2001. As a junior researcher, she worked on the project Tekstologija hrvatske pisane baštine [Textual Scholarship of Croatian Written Heritage] until 2014, and from 2015 to 2016 she led the European Social Fund project Latinska gramatika Josipa Jurina LAGRAJU [Josip Jurin’s Latin Grammar LAGRAJU].
From the 2014/2015 academic year, she taught as an external associate at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, joining the Department of Communication Studies as an employee in May 2018. She also taught as an external associate at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, in the 2021/2022 and 2025/2026 academic years, both at its main campus in Zagreb and at the Petrinja Department.
Within IUČIP, she contributes to the analysis of narrative patterns and student reception and to research into relationships between literary texts and the contemporary audiovisual environment. She contributes particularly to the development of instruments for monitoring literary and media literacy and to theoretically grounded interpretations of students’ responses.
Children’s literature holds an important place in her research. She served as secretary of the scholarly journal Libri & Liberi from 2014 and has been a member of its editorial board since 2020. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Teacher Education and of the Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature.
She has also participated in the organisation of international scholarly conferences in this field. She was a member of the organising committees of the international conference Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić u novom mileniju [Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić in the New Millennium] and the international conference Za istim stolom: položaj i status istraživanja dječje književnosti i kulture [At the Same Table: The Position and Status of Research into Children’s Literature and Culture], as well as a member of the programme committee of the international conference Stoljeće Priča iz davnine Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić [A Century of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić’s Croatian Tales of Long Ago].
Her current research is also connected with children’s literature and educational contexts.
Project publications
Publication in preparation
Rezo, Vladimira (2026). “A Little Wartime Diary: Political Interference in the Croatian School Reading List”. In Birgitte Beck Pristed, Mateusz Świetlicki and Anastasia Ulanowicz (eds), Children’s War Literature in the Making. Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition (CLCC) series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company (forthcoming).
The paper originated from a workshop held in Aarhus in the summer of 2025.
