Katja Dobrić Basaneže

Katja Dobrić Basaneže is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities in Pula, University of Primorska. She holds a doctoral degree (PhD) obtained in 2017. Her research focuses on legal translation, corpus linguistics, metaphor analysis, and EU legal terminology. She specializes in studying phraseological units in contracts, metaphorical collocations, and translation strategies in multilingual legal contexts.

Her academic work includes over 40 publications in prestigious journals like The Translator, Meta, and Journal of Specialised Translation. Key areas of investigation include term variation in EU directives, metaphorical networks in financial language, and cross-cultural legal terminology comparisons between English and Croatian.

Teaching responsibilities span undergraduate and graduate courses such as British Literature, Translation Exercises, and Lexicography. She has been actively involved in professional practice modules for translation students.

Her research demonstrates particular interest in challenges of translating extended multi-word expressions, legal phraseology preservation, and maintaining textual coherence in multilingual legal systems.