1. Education: M.A. in Philosophy and General Linguistics (1999; University of Zagreb), MSc. in Linguistics (2002; University of Zadar), PhD in Linguistics (2007; University of Zagreb).
2. Current position: associate professor at Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
3. Research projects:
– 2009 – 2011 Researcher on the bilateral Croatian and Slovenian project “Međujezične i međukulturalne veze te konstrukcija nacionalnog identiteta u slovenskome i hrvatskome turističkom diskursu“ (Interlingual and Intercultural Relations and the Construction of National Identity in Croatian and Slovenian Tourism Discourse; project leaders: Vesna Muhvić-Dimanovski, University of Zagreb, for Croatia, and Vesna Mikolič, University of Primorska, Koper, for Slovenia ); funding source: Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia and Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia.
– 2007 – 2010 Languages in a Network of European Excellence – LINEE; project within the 6th Framework Programme, CIT4-CT-2006-028388; project coordinator: Iwar Werlen, Universität Bern; funding source: European Commission:
1. Leader of Work Package 2 (WP2) “Language and Concepts of National Identity“, 1 November 2007 – 30 April 2008;
2. Researcher on WP2a “Promoting National Identity Internationally“, 1 May 2008 – 1 November 2010;
3. Leader of WP18 “Training and Mobility“, 1 July 2009 – 1 November 2010.
– 2007 – 2011 Research fellow, and from 2009 researcher on the project “Konstrukcija i struktura jezičnog identiteta“ (Construction and Structure of Language Identity; leader: Dubravko Škiljan, University of Zagreb; from 2008, Vlasta Erdeljac University of Zagreb); funding source: Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia and Banco popolare Croatia.
– 2002 – 2006 Research fellow on the project “Tipologija označivanja u semiologiji i semiotici“ (Typology of Signification in Semiology and Semiotics; leader: Marin Andrijašević, University of Zagreb); funding source: Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.
– 2001 – 2002 Research fellow on the project “Računalna obradba hrvatskoga jezika“ (Computer Processing of the Croatian Language; leader: Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb); funding source: Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.
– 2000 – 2001 Research fellow on the project “Supostavne gramatike: hrvatska i francuska“ (Contrastive Grammars: Croatian and French; leader: Miro Kačić, University of Zagreb); funding source: Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.
4. Areas of specialization: semiology and semiotics, sociosemiotics, discourse analysis, language, gender and sexuality, onomastics.
5. Publications