Dragana Drobnjak

Dragana Drobnjak is a Full Professor at the Department of French Language and Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. She has held academic positions since 1996, progressing from assistant to associate professor (2014) and full professor (2019).

• Education: MA (2000) and PhD (2008) in French Language and Literature from University of Novi Sad.
• Research Focus: Specializes in Romance studies, semantics/pragmatics, contrastive linguistics, and linguoculturology.
• Key Courses: Morphosyntax of French, Lexicology, Comparative Phraseology, and Contact Linguistics.

Her research explores lexical and phraseological interactions between French, Italian, and Serbian, with emphasis on false friends, metaphorical concepts (money, death, soul), and cultural semantics. She received a Swiss Confederation Scholarship (2005/2006) for research at the University of Lausanne.

Scientific Awards:

• Swiss Confederation Scholarship (2005/2006)