Bogdanka Pavelin Lešić

Bogdanka Pavelin Lešić graduated in French and English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (1989). She completed her postgraduate studies at Université de Toulouse 2, France, obtaining a PhD in Language Sciences (1994).

Since 2000, she has been affiliated with the Department of French Language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she has held the position of Full Professor and the scientific rank of Research Adviser since 2019. She has also served as vice head and head of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and as head of the Department of French.

Her research focuses on French language studies, linguistics, and language didactics. She has led and participated in numerous national and international research projects, co-organised the FRANCONTRASTE international Francophone symposia, and authored two scholarly monographs and several university textbooks. In 2012, she was awarded the French distinction Knight of the Order of Academic Palms.

CV updated on 2026-09-26.