Nada Poropat Jeletić

Nada Poropat Jeletić is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, specializing in Romance Philology and sociolinguistics. She holds a PhD (summa cum laude, 2014) and has held leadership roles including Head of Postgraduate Study in Translation and Erasmus Coordinator. Her academic journey includes international collaborations with institutions like Harvard, Oxford, and Sorbonne.

• Education: PhD in Humanities with focus on Romance Studies (University of Zadar, 2014)
• Professional Roles:
  • Head of Postgraduate Translation Program
  • Erasmus Coordinator for European mobility
  • Member of PLIDA Certification Board (since 2019)
  • Principal Investigator in multiple EU-funded projects
• Research Interests: Bilingualism, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and language policy in Adriatic regions

Her research focuses on Istrian language dynamics, producing corpora like BilingBank C-ORAL-IC and CABank Istriot. Key contributions include sociolinguistic analyses of code-switching and bilingual self-assessment. She has published 30+ peer-reviewed articles in journals like Frontiers in Communication and Journal of Mediterranean Studies, with a focus on heritage languages and language contact phenomena.

• Awards:
  • Doctoral Scholarship (Italian Union, 2011-2014)
  • PhD honoris causa (summa cum laude)
• Professional Memberships: 8 international associations including Network of Excellence of Institutional Italian and Mediterranean Studies Association

Teaching spans undergraduate to postgraduate levels, covering glottodidactics, legal multilingualism, and computational linguistics. Current projects include the Linguistic Memory Archive of Istria and multilevel discourse analysis frameworks.