SASE PRESIDENT
Danka Sinadinović, PhD
Danka Sinadinović was born in Belgrade on 7 February 1978. She graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, English Language and Literature Department. She obtained her PhD in July 2017 at the same faculty, defending a dissertation entitled “Linguistic Aspects of Doctor-Patient Interaction in English and Serbian.”
Since 2011, she has been employed at the Department of Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, where she teaches several compulsory courses within the Integrated Academic Studies of Medicine, the English-language study programme, the Undergraduate Academic Studies of Nursing, and the Master of Professional Studies programme. She is also involved in teaching numerous elective courses in the areas of English for medical purposes, doctor–patient communication, and teaching models in biomedical sciences. She was first elected to the position of Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine in October 2017 and was re-elected in September 2023. From 2018 to 2021, she served as Secretary of the Department of Humanities, and since 2021 she has been the Head of this department. Since 2012, she has worked as an English language editor for the journal Medicinska istraživanja (Medical Research), published by the Faculty of Medicine, and since 2022 she has also served as an editor and translator for the Serbian Medical Journal of the Serbian Medical Chamber.
Between 2022 and 2024, she served as the administrator and a member of the project team of the Erasmus+ project Connected4Health – A Medical and Humanities-based Approach to Navigating Obesity and Eating Disorders (EDs) in Young People (2021-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000032108). Since November 2024, she has been the project coordinator of the Erasmus+ project AVTIA – Audiovisual Translation for Inclusion and Accessibility (2024-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000249675) on behalf of the University of Belgrade.
Since 2022, she has also served as the local contact person and coordinator on behalf of the University of Belgrade for the CEEPUS network HU-1704-02-2324 – Healthcare Communication, facilitating numerous incoming and outgoing mobilities for both academic staff and students each year.
She contributed to the organization of the international online EALTHY Virtual Symposium in 2021 and the international conference 5th English for Healthcare Conference held in Belgrade in September 2022. From 2021 to 2024 she served as a member of the Faculty of Medicine Committee for Monitoring and Improving Teaching, and since 2020 she has been the Coordinator for Online Teaching on behalf of her department.
To date, she has published nine chapters in international publications and 29 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings. She actively participates in professional development and regularly attends national and international conferences. Her research interests include conversation analysis, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, applied linguistics, English for specific purposes, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and English language teaching methodology.
Danka Sinadinović has been a member of the Serbian Association for the Study of English and the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) since the start of her employment at the Faculty of Medicine. She is also a member of the European Association of Language Teachers for Healthcare (EALTHY), the Foreign Language and Literature Association of Serbia, serving as President of its Languages for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group since March 2026.
SASE SECRETARY
Irena Aleksić-Hajduković, PhD
Irena Aleksić-Hajduković is an Assistant Professor at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Belgrade, whose research interests include English for Medicine and Dental Medicine, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, and Sociopragmatics. She was born in Belgrade on 3 April 1988. Irena Aleksić-Hajduković graduated from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade in 2011, where she also completed her doctoral studies in 2017 with a dissertation entitled Multimodality in Advertising Discourse in English and Serbian. She has published 17 research papers and book chapters in national and international publications and regularly participates in national and international academic conferences.
Irena Aleksić-Hajduković has a strong interest in internationalisation of higher education. At the School of Dental Medicine, she serves as the Erasmus+ ECTS Coordinator overseeing incoming and outgoing student and staff mobilities. Furthermore, her international engagement includes participation in the Erasmus+ project Connected4Health – A Medical- and Humanities-based Approach to Navigating Obesity and Eating Disorders in Young People (2021-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000032108), as well as serving as a team member and project administrator of the Erasmus+ project AVTIA – Audiovisual Translation for Inclusion and Accessibility (2024-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000249675) on behalf of the University of Belgrade. In addition, since 2022 she has been the local contact person and coordinator for the CEEPUS network Healthcare Communication (HU-1704-02-2324) at the University of Belgrade, School of Dental Medicine. She has also co-hosted several international events, including the EALTHY Virtual Symposium (2021) and the 5th English for Healthcare Conference (2022).
Irena Aleksić-Hajduković is a long-standing member of the Serbian Association for the Study of English (SASE) and the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). She is also a member of the European Association of Language Teachers for Healthcare (EALTHY), and the Foreign Language and Literature Association of Serbia. In March 2026 she was appointed Vice-President of its Special Interest Group gathering university lecturers of Languages for Specific Purposes. She is a member of the European Commission’s Digital Education Hub and was part of its Hybrid Learning Spaces squad in 2024.
SASE TREASURER
Ana Mužar
Ana Mužar was born in Kruševac on 5 July 1997. She enrolled in undergraduate studies of English Language, Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, in the academic year 2016/2017. She received a bachelor’s degree in 2020. During the academic year 2020/2021, she pursued master’s studies of Language, Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, and obtained a master’s degree. She was awarded scholarships by the Young Talent Fund of the Republic of Serbia for her achievements during her undergraduate and master’s studies. The following academic year 2021/2022, she enrolled in doctoral studies of Language, Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. From May to October 2023, she was a scholarship recipient of the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia under the 23rd Public Call for the inclusion of doctoral students in the work of accredited scientific research organisations. Presently, she is doing her PhD research on the implementation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in English for Dental Medicine through Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT).
She was elected to the position of Teaching Assistant in English for Medicine and Dental Medicine at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Belgrade, in December 2025. From October 2023 to December 2025, she was employed as a Teaching Associate at the same faculty. In the academic years of 2022/2023 and 2023/2024, she taught General English courses, as a doctoral student, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. From March 2022 to July 2023, she worked as an English language instructor at the Science Technology Park in Belgrade, where she taught General and Business English courses to employees of the Business Technology Incubator of Technical Faculties Belgrade. From February 2021 to May 2023, she was employed as an English language instructor at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade, delivering courses in General English and Academic Writing to research associates. From April to July 2021, she worked as an English language instructor at the Berlitz Language Center in Belgrade, where she taught a Business English course for corporate clients.
To date, she has published five scientific and professional papers. She consistently engages in professional growth, frequently attending both national and international conferences. She was awarded a CEEPUS grant for teaching staff mobility that took place in May 2025 at the Semmelweis University, Department of Languages for Specific Purposes, in Budapest. Her fields of interest include English for Specific Purposes, Language Teaching Methodology, Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), and Applied Linguistics.
She is a member of the Serbian Association for the Study of English and the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). She is also a member of the European Association of Language Teachers for Healthcare (EALTHY), the Foreign Language and Literature Association of Serbia, serving as Secretary of its Languages for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group since March 2026.