Dr Tamara Mikolič Južnič is Assistant Professor at the Department of Translation of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She has a PhD in linguistics (2008) and teaches language and translation courses at the BA and MA programmes in translation and interpreting. She is Head of the Italian Language and Literature Chair at the Department of Translation, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include translation studies, translator and interpreter training, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, Italian linguistics etc.