Federica Fragapane

Federica Fragapane is an Adjunct Professor of Spanish Language, Translation, and Linguistics at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania. Her academic work centers on Spanish-Italian bilingual lexicography from synchronic and diachronic perspectives, with a focus on phraseology, metalexicography, and diatopic variation in Spanish.

• Email: federicafragapane@yahoo.it
• Office: Room 139
• Office Hours: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 (in-person), Friday 09:00-10:00 (Teams)

Her research explores plurilexical units in bilingual dictionaries, emphasizing pragmatic markers, syntactic collocations, and cultural mediation. She has supervised thesis topics on phraseology in advertising, bilingual culture, and semantic-contrastive analysis.

Her publications span specialized dictionaries, phraseological databases, and pedagogical applications of fraseology in Spanish-Italian lexicography. Recent works address technical terminology in music, diatopic variation, and figurative language treatment in bilingual repertoires.

She teaches Spanish Language and Translation 1 (L20) and Spanish Language and Translation 2 (L20+L11), conducting exams and ongoing assessments at the Department of Humanities.