Saša Babič is a folklorist, researching short folklore forms, ie. greetings, swearing, proverbs, riddles, incantations, praying etc., their text usage and cultural meanings as well as their integration in folklore events and communication. She does archival research, in order to gain materials needed for diachronic comparisons, as well as fieldwork research, in order to collect materials and explore the integration of short folklore forms in society. Her special interest is given to contemporary usages, changes and adaptations of short folklore forms.
Between 2017 and 2019 she has researched the usage and dynamics of contemporary short folklore forms in language and culture as part of her postdoctoral project »Tradition and Innovation: Short forms of folklore and contemporary cultural dialogues« which was held in Estonian Literary Museum (Tartu, Estonia).
Saša Babič is the lecturer of a course "Short folklore forms in culture and society" for the doctoral students at Post gradual school ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana, Slovenia), and of a course “Introduction to mythology” for BA students on the Faculty of Arts on the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
Saša Babič is chief co-editor at scientific journal Studiy Mythologica Slavica and a member of the Slovensko etnološko društvo [Slovenian ethnological society], The International Society For Folk Narrative Research, International Society for Ethnology and Folklore and the International Association of Paremiology (AIP-IAP).
2025 soavtorica z VOOLAID, Piret. The elderly in proverbs: comparative analysis of Estonian and Slovene proverbs. V: KRŽIŠNIK, Erika (ur.), STANIČ, Daša (ur.), VALENČIČ ARH, Urška (ur.). Frazeologija v digitalni dobi: izzivi in priložnosti = Phraseology in the digital age: challenges and opportunities. Ljubljana: Založba Univerze, 2025. Letn. 65, št. 1, str. 11-25. Linguistica, 65, 1. DOI: 10.4312/linguistica.65.1.11-25.
2025 »Dobra jed se sama hvali« : konceptualni zemljevid slovenskih paremioloških enot s komponento poimenovanja jedi. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva. 2025, 65, št. 2, str. 94-101. https://cdn2.domdesign.com/users/SEDDrustvo/Site/sites/sed-drustvo.si/modules/Domino/Files/glasnik-slovenskega-etnoloskega-drustva-65-2-2025.pdf.
2025 soavtorica z JAKOP, Nataša. Gospodarske podobe vsakdanjika v luči folklornih obrazcev. Slavistična revija: časopis za jezikoslovje in literarne vede. [Tiskana izd.]. 2025, letn. 73, št. 2, str. 295-308 DOI: 10.57589/srl.v73i2.4240.
2025 soavtorica s CHOVANEC, Jan. Cartoons in memes : recycling popular art forms as a humorous response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Word & image : a journal of verbal/visual enquiry. 2025, vol. 41, issue 2, str. 171-184. DOI: 10.1080/02666286.2025.2463037.
2024 Dealing with fear : what dangers do incantations ward off?. Journal for cultural research. 2024, str. 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2024.2373435.
2025 Time spirals in Slovenian short folklore forms. V: ÁSDÍSARDÓTTIR, Ingunn (ur.), et al. Good thoughts on folklore and mythology : Festschrift in honour of Terry Gunnell. Vol. 1, Folklore. Budapest: Trivent, 2025. Str. 387-399. Old Norse studies, vol. 1.1. https://trivent-publishing.eu/img/cms/2025%20Terry%20Gunnell/Festschrift_vol-%201-%20FOLKLORE_eBook.pdf, DOI: 10.22618/TP.ONS.2025v1.
2024 Animal predators as a characterising element in short folklore forms. Proverbium. 2024, vol. 41, no. 1, str. 1-21. DOI: 10.29162/pv.41.1.472.
2024 Animals as a stereotyping and characterising element in Slovenian name-callings. Traditiones: zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. 2024, letn. 53, št. 1, str. 69-84. ISSN 0352-0447. DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2024530104.
2024 The naked truth for a good ending : the end in Slovenian paremiological units = Gola resnica za dober konec: konec v slovenskih paremioloških enotah. V: BABIČ, Saša (ur.), JAKOP, Nataša (ur.), MRVIČ, Rok (ur.). Paremiologija med tradicijo in sodobnostjo = Paremiology between tradition and innovation. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2024. Str. 125-136. DOI: 10.3986/9789610508861_08.
2024 What is proverbial dog like?. V: BABIČ, Saša (ur.), et al. Standing on the shoulders of giants: a Festschrift in honour of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Osijek: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. Str. 561-576. Proverbium, Online supplement series, vol. 3. ISBN 978-953-314-216-6. https://naklada.ffos.hr/knjige/index.php/ff/catalog/view/18/23/47.
2023 soavtorica z GAŠPERIČ, Primož: The semiotics of cartographic symbols on old maps. Acta geographica Slovenica, 63-2, 2023, 51–71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.10930
2023 soavtorica z VOOLAID, Piret: A sociocultural view of Estonian and Slovenian proverbs on alcohol and drinking. Folklore. Sept. 2023, vol. 134, issue 3, str. 370-394, DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2023.2175972.
2022 Collecting Slovenian school lore via e-questionnaire : analysis of the collected material and revision of the questionnaire. Folklore vol. 86, str. 15-32, DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.babic.
2022 soavtorica z RADOMIROVIĆ MAČEK, Kristina: COVID-19 conspiracy theories in Slovenia. Studia mythologica Slavica. 25, str. 27-48, DOI: 10.3986/SMS20222502.
2021 Uganke na Slovenskem. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. https://omp.zrc-sazu.si/zalozba/catalog/view/1954/8075/1445-1.
2019 Barve v slovenskih sodobnih folklornih ugankah. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva 59/1, str. 71-79.
2018 Barve v slovenskih folklornih ugankah. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva 58/ 1/2, str. 43-51.
2018 soavtorica z VOOLAID, Piret. Swearing: dissolution into nothingness. Studia mythologica Slavica 21, str. 147-159.
2018 Stereotipi in predsodki o ženskah in moških v šaljivih vprašanjih. V: JAMBREŠIĆ KIRIN, Renata (ur.). Humor u svakodnevnoj komunikaciji. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
2016 GRANBOM-HERRANEN, Liisa, BABIČ, Saša, VOOLAID, Piret. Proverbial expressions in newspapers: a study in Estonia, Finland, and Slovenia. Traditiones: zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje 44/3, str. 5-32.
2016 soavtorica z PODJED, Dan (avtor, fotograf). Vozila in stereotipi: primerjava Ljubljane in Beograda. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva 56/ 1/2, str. 74-84.
2015 Beseda ni konj : estetska struktura slovenskih folklornih obrazcev (Ethnologica - Dissertationes, 6). Ljubljana, Založba ZRC. [COBISS.SI-ID 278195712]
2015 soavtorica z PODJED, Dan, Crossroads of anger: tensions and conflicts in traffic. Ethnologia Europaea : journal of european ethnology 45/2, str. 17-33
Humorous Folklore in everyday life (bilateral project • January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026)
Traditional Paremiological Units in Dialogue with Contemporary Use (research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
Slovenian and Estonian Contemporary School Lore (bilateral project • November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2022)
Create to Connect > Create to Impact (international project • September 1, 2018 - August 31, 2022)
SCHOLA: Mentoring for Educators to Evaluate Volunteering (international project • September 11, 2016 - August 31, 2018)
DriveGreen: Development of an Ecodriving Application for a Transition to a Low-carbon Society (interdisciplinary project • July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2017)
Heroes and Celebrities in Slovenia and Central Europe (fundamental research project • August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2016)
ZBORZBIRK Cultural heritage in collections between the Alps and Karst (international project • October 1, 2012 - March 31, 2015)
ETNOFOLK Ohranjanje in pospeševanje etnološke kulturne dediščine v Srednji Evropi (international project • May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2014)
Slovenski pregovori kot kulturna dediščina: klasifikacija in redakcija korpusa (applied project • May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2013)
Tradition and its re-producers (applied project • February 1, 2008 - January 31, 2011)