Prof. Marko Stabej

Marko Stabej is Professor of Slovene Language at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Faculty of Arts; former Head of the Center for Slovene as a second/foreign language at University of Ljubljana (2001-2005, 2009-2017), Head of the Department od Slovene Studies (2018-2020). Research and teaching in fields of Slovene linguistics, contemporary and historical sociolinguistics, textlinguistics, stylistics and corpus linguistics. Coeditor of the reference corpus of Slovene Fida (1997-2000) and Fidaplus (2003-2005), head of the Slovene Threshold level team (2000-2003). Representative of University of Ljubljana in the Dylan research project (6th Framework Programme EU, 2006-2011). Editor-in-chief of the Journal Jezik in slovstvo (2003-2010). Former member of Slovene parliamentarian working group for language policy and language planning (1994-2005); Slovene council for foreign languages (1999-2006) and other bodies in the field of language policy and language planning. Singer-songwriter and keyboardist in the band Melanholiki (1981-)