izv. prof. dr. sc. Nada Poropat Jeletić

Title:	Associate professor
Function:	Head of the Postgraduate Study in Translation; Erasmus Coordinator
Location:	281 (Noordung Campus)
Public phone number:	+385 99 302 4444
E-mail:	E-mail
Official web page URL:	https://ffpu.unipu.hr/ffpu/nada.poropat_jeletic
Department:	Katedra za talijanski jezik

Teaching

undergraduate

• Basics of Grammar (272775) - Lecturer in charge
• Bilingualism and multilingualism (212672) - Lecturer in charge
• Bilingualism and multilingualism (244798) - Lecturer in charge, Lecturer in charge
• Early bilingualism and multilingualism (200217) - Lecturer in charge
• Italian Language and Literature 2 (255162) - Lecturer in charge
• Roman Linguistics (200915) - Lecturer in charge

graduate

• Early bilingualism in education (244497) - Lecturer in charge
• Glottodidactics (245579) - Lecturer in charge
• Grammatical Analysis (275147) - Lecturer in charge
• Historical Grammar (146991) - Lecturer in charge
• Legal characteristics of multilingualism (245578) - Lecturer in charge

integrated undergraduate and graduate

• Early bilingualism and multilingualism (119167) - Lecturer in charge
• Early bilingualism and multilingualism (273672) - Lecturer in charge

undergraduate

• Early bilingualism and multilingualism (174581) - Lecturer in charge

Consultations

Office hours: until further notice by appointment via e-mail (nada.poropat.jeletic@unipu.hr)

Biography

Nada Poropat Jeletić holds the position of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Pula and she teaches courses within the study programs of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and the Faculty of Economics and Tourism in Pula. Additionally, she serves as the Head of the Postgraduate Course Study in Translation and she is the Erasmus Coordinator for academic mobility between European higher education institutions. Since 2019 she has been a member of the PLIDA Certification Center Board of the Dante Alighieri Society in Rome. Between 2018 and 2020 she served as the Deputy Head of the ITALI Double Degree University Program, developed in collaboration with the University of Perugia (Italy).

Current scientific projects:

1."NEUROCOGNITIVE ABILITIES AND EARLY BILINGUAL DEVELOPMENT: LANGUAGE EXPOSURE AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS”

• Next Generation Europe, European Commission
• Principal investigator: N. Poropat Jeletić, PhD

2."MULTILINGUAL MINDS"

• Research Council of Norway
• Principal investigator: N. Mitrofanova, PhD

3."CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE DURING REAL TIME PROCESSING" 

• HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-101154247, European Commission
• UiT The Arctic University of Tromso
• Principal investigator: M. Westergaard, PhD

She obtained a PhD in the field of Humanities, specializing in Philology, with a focus on Romance Studies, in 2014, by defending her dissertation titled "Theory and Practice of Bilingualism in Istria" at the University of Zadar (summa cum laude). Additionally, she was a recipient of a doctoral scholarship awarded by the Italian Union and the People’s University of Trieste from 2011 to 2014. During her studies she gained international experience at prestigious institutions (Harvard, Oxford, Sydney, Hamburg, Barcelona, Rome, Padua and so forth), participating in advanced training programs that refined her methodological and interdisciplinary approach. She started her professional path with an internship in 2010/2011 at INFORMO/European Academy for Education and Social Research (Buje/Dublin), a national contact point for the European Project Association (EPA), where she developed expertise in entrepreneurial culture dissemination, management techniques and the organization of educational programs within the My-Europa eAcademy platform, as well as in European project planning under the European FP7 collaborative project framework(FP7).

Between 2011 and 2014 she was as a Research Assistant at the Department of Studies in the Italian Language of the University in Pula, later continuing as a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2014 to 2016. From 2016 to 2022 she was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary, Italian and Cultural Studies and from 2022 on she hold the position of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the “Juraj Dobrila” University of Pula. Throughout her academic career, she has taught a diverse array of courses across undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs, including: Glottodidactics; Legal Aspects of Multilingualism; Pragmalinguistics; Computational Tools for Linguistic Analysis; Contrastive Linguistics; Romance Philology; Historical Grammar; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Early Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in the European Union; Phonetics and Phonology; Morphology; Syntax; Grammatical Analysis; Introduction to Linguistics; Professional translation for the Banking and Financial Sector; Professional translation for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector, etc.

She is the author of three monographs, has edited five collective volumes and has published around forty scientific papers in internationally recognized academic journals, conference proceedings and monographs, with a focus on pragmalinguistic, sociolinguistic and neurocognitive aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism. As the principal investigator, she is leading the international scientific project "Neurocognitive abilities and early bilingual development: language exposure and executive functions" (Next Generation Europe, 2025–2029) and is currently collaborating on two other international research projects: "Multilingual minds" (Research Council of Norway) and "Cross-linguistic influence during real time processing" (Horizon-MSCA, European Commission). In collaboration with Professor Malte Rosemeyer (Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Philosophy and Philology, Laboratory for Speech Studies), she is involved in an advisory role in the implementation of a doctoral scientific research (2025–2029) within the project "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes (ExRean)" (principal investigator: Prof. Malte Rosemeyer, PhD), funded by the European Research Council with a total grant of 2 million euros. She has participated in approximately forty national and international scientific conferences and is a member of several university and faculty boards.

She has actively participated in the work of numerous organizing committees of international scientific conferences and professional development programs under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb and the Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency (AZOO). She has also been involved in organizational activities of scientific dissemination aimed at fostering early neurocognitive development within the framework of the NTC Sistema di apprendimento – Stimolazione precoce dei bambini e sviluppo delle capacità intellettive attraverso il gioco, carried out under the auspices of MENSA International and UNICEF, under the guidance of the neurologist Ranko Rajović, PhD and prof. Andrea Debeljuh, PhD.

List of select publications

Hržica, G.; Košutar, S.; Poropat Jeletić, N. - The relationship between self-assessment of language proficiency and measures of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity: evidence from bilingual speakers of Italian in Croatia // Frontiers in Communication, vol. 9 - Heritage Languages at the Crossroads: Cultural Contexts, Individual Differences, and Methodologies, 2024. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1371126/full 

Blagoni, R.; Poropat Jeletic, N.; Blecich, K. - The Italophone Reefs in the Croatophone Sea // Bilingual Landscape of the Contemporary World / Grucza, S. ; Olpińska-Szkiełko, M. ; Romanowski, P. (Ed.).
Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2016. p. 11-36.

Blagoni, R.; Poropat Jeletić, N.; Blecich, K. - Istroveneto e italofonia in Istria: prospettive e visioni di un'insularità etnolinguistica // Le isole linguistiche dell'Adriatico / Lucija Šimičić, Lucija ; Škevin, Ivana ; Vuletić, Nikola (Ed.).
Roma: Gioacchino Onorati Editore, 2018. p. 69-92.

Poropat Jeletić, N., Moscarda Mirković, E.; Hržica, G. - BilingBank C-ORAL-IC Corpus, 2024. Retrieved from: https://biling.talkbank.org/access/C-ORAL-IC.html. doi:10.21415/PAZ2-EP87

Moscarda Mirković, E., Poropat Jeletić, N.; Hržica, G. - CABank Istriot Corpus, 2024. Retrieved from: https://ca.talkbank.org/access/Istriot.html. DOI: 10.21415/NR0X-ZZ76

Professional memberships

She is a member of the following associations:

• European Academy for Education and Social Research (since 2010)
• Women of Europe Association (Field of Research) (since 2011)
• Mediterranean Studies Association (since 2011)
• Network of the Excellence of Institutional Italian - European Commission (since 2014)
• Research Society Pietas Iulia (since 2015)
• Athens Institute for Education and Research (since 2016)
• Research Center for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Istria (since 2018)
• Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (since 2019)

List of select projects

Past scientific projects:

International Research Project: Multilevel approach to discourse in language development

• Financed by: Croatian Science Foundation/Hrvatska zaklada za znanost (2018-2023)
• Scientific field: Social Sciences - Speech-language pathology
• Institutions: University of Zagreb, "Sorbonne" University of Paris, University of Wien, University of Osijek, Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics.
• Principal Investigator: Gordana Hržica, PhD (Associate Professor - University of Zagreb)

International Research Project: Archivio per la memoria linguistica dell'Istria / Linguistic Memory Archive of Istria

• Financed by: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Italy, University of Triest (Italy) (2018-2020, 2022-2023, 2023-2024)
• Scientific field: Humanities - Philology
• Institutions: University of Pula, Open University of Triest
• Principal Investigators: Eliana Moscarda Mirković, PhD (Associate Professor - University of Pula), Franco Crevatin, PhD (Full Professor - University of Triest)

International Research Project: Official bilingualism in the Slovene and the Croatian Istria: the traslation of administrative texts

• Financed by:  Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia (2018-2019).
• Scientific field: Humanities - Philology
• Institutions: University of Ljubljana, University of Maribor, University of Pula
• Principal Investigators: Ivana Lalli Paćelat, PhD (University of Pula), Mojica Kompara, PhD (University of Maribor)

Research Project: Intercultural approach to linguistic, literary and didactic contents

• Financed by: Ministry of Research and Education of the Republic of Croatia (2011-2014)
• Scientific field: Humanities - Philology
• Institutions: University of Pula
• Principal Investigator: Rita Scotti Jurić, PhD (Full Professor - University of Pula)

Past employments

2024 - ongoing: Head of the Postgraduate Course Study "Translation in the framework of Croatian-Italian bilingualism"

2022 - ongoing: Associate Professor - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Pula 

2022 - ongoing: Coordinator for the ERASMUS mobility projects.

2021 - Senior Research Associate - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Pula

2019 - ongoing: Commission Examinator of the PLIDA certification centre ("Dante Alighieri" Society Language Proficiency Diplomas, Rome - Italy)

2018 - 2020: Co-Director of the Graduate Double Degree Diploma (ITAS) with the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy)

2016 - 2022: Assistant Professor - Faculty of Interdisciplinary, Italian and Cultural studies of the University of Pula

2012 - ongoing:  Teaching Associate - Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Pula

2015: Research Associate - Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pula

2014 - 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pula

2014: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 

2011 - 2014: Doctoral scholarship by the Italian Union and the Università Popolare di Trieste (Italy)

2011 - 2014: Study-related traineeships as a visiting student: Harvard, Oxford, Sydney, Barcelona, ​​Hamburg, Rome, Padua, and so forth. 

2011 - 2014: Teaching Assistant/Research Fellow - Department of Italian Studies of the University of Pula

2010 - 2011: INFORMO / European Academy for Education and Social Reserach (Buie/Dublin) (Internship)

Scientific publications (CroRIS)