Josip Lisac should not be confused with Josipa Lisac.
Josip Lisac (in Croatian pronounced as /jǒsip lǐːsat͡s/; born 23 November 1950), is a Croatian linguist and dialectologist.
Lisac was born in 1950 in Turni near Delnice, Gorski Kotar. After graduating in philosophy and Yugoslav studies at the University of Zadar in 1974, he received a PhD at the same institution in 1986, with a thesis on the Kajkavian dialects of Gorski Kotar.
In 1978, after working as a journalist for four years immediately after graduation, he returned to the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar to work as an assistant. In 1987, he received the title of docent. In 1989, he became an associate professor, and, in 1997, received regular professorship followed by permanent professorship in 2002. He teaches or has taught several post-graduate courses on linguistics, and serves as a head of the post-graduate course in linguistics at the University of Zadar. At the same university, he was the first head of the Department for Croatian and Slavic Studies. In 2004, he became an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
His chief scientific interest is in dialectology and in the history of Croatian. He contributed to several international projects on linguistic geography. He has published approximately a thousand bibliographical units, including several books:
With Dunja Fališevac and Darko Novaković, Lisac edited the anthology Hrvatska književna baština (2002–2005). At the University of Zadar, he was the initiator and the editor-in-chief of the journal Croatica et Slavica Iadertina. He currently serves as an editor of the magazine Čakavska rič and also collaborates on the publications of the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute. He edited reprints of many of the works of Croatian writers and philologists, including (Faust Vrančić, Jakov Pletikosa, Stjepan Ivšić, Vinko Nikolić, Zlatko Pochobradsky). In collaboration with sister Terezija Zemljić, he published a chronicle of Šibenik's female Franciscans Knjigu od uspomene (Šibenik, 2005).