Teodora Fonović Cvijanović

Teodora Fonović Cvijanović was born in 1977 in Vinež, in the Municipality of Labin. She completed primary school in Potpićan and attended the language-focused secondary school at „Mate Blažina“ Secondary School in Labin. She obtained a degree in Croatian Language and Literature and Italian Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Pula, and obtained a PhD in Philology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Since 2004, she has been employed at the Department of Croatian Studies of the University of „Juraj Dobrila“, where she teaches courses in the standard language. Since 2023, she has held the academic rank of associate professor. The main areas of her scholarly work are the recent history of the Croatian standard language, with particular emphasis on Istria, and the standardization of the Croatian standard language. To date, she has presented at around thirty scholarly conferences in Croatia and abroad and has published around twenty scholarly papers. She is the author of the monographs „Juraj Dobrila i hrvatski jezik u Istri“ and „Pićanska župna kronika (1812. – 1832.)“—co-authored with J. Jelinčić and E. Orbanić—and co-editor of „Zbornik radova s Međunarodnoga znanstvenog skupa Naša sloga (1870. – 2020.)“.