EDUCATION
- 2012: Ph.D. in English for Special Purposes, Department of statistics, University of Naples "Federico II". Thesis title: “Collocations in University degree descriptions: an evaluation of lexical association measures”.
- 2010 (November-December): Research period at University of California at Santa Barbara (U.S.A.), under the scientific supervision of Prof. Stefan Th. Gries.
- 2007: Laurea specialistica (equivalent to MA) in Specialized translation and translation for the publishing industry (cum laude), Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators, University of Bologna at Forlì. Dissertation title: “Building a very large corpus of English obtained by Web crawling: ukWaC”.
- 2005: Laurea (equivalent to BA) in Translation and liaison interpreting (cum laude), Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators, University of Bologna at Forlì.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND ROLES
- 2025-present: Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research, Bozen, Italy.
- 2025-present: Member of the Steering Committee of the Knowledge Centre on Translation and Interpretation of the European Commission.
- 2024-present: Member of the Board of the European Master’s in Translation (EMT) network.
- 2021-present: Coordinator of the Master’s degree in "Specialized translation", University of Bologna.
- 2019-present: Associate Professor in English Linguistics and Translation, University of Bologna.
- 2107-present: Member of the Board of the Doctorate in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural studies, University of Bologna.
- 2016-2019: Senior assistant professor (tenure track), University of Bologna.
INVITED TALKS (2020-2025)
- Ferraresi, A. (2025) “Corpus annotation and consultation. A step-by-step introduction” . 11 April, keynote speech, Symposium Addressing technical challenges in corpus linguistics research. University of Insubria, Como, Italy.
- Ferraresi, A. (2025) “Breaking News in Translation. Approaching News Translation through Corpora”. 4-5 February, keynote speech, International conference on Tradition and innovation in Translation Studies research XIII: Expanding horizons in translation studies. Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia.
- Ferraresi, A. (2024) “The evolving landscape of language industry jobs. Professional, educational and institutional perspectives”. 2-3 December, keynote speech, International conference on training translators and interpreters today: Perspectives and evolutions. IULM University, Milan, Italy.
- Ferraresi, A. (2024) “Le professioni dell’industria delle lingue nell’era dell’IA. Uno studio basato su corpora”. 4 June, keynote speech, Convegno dottorale PhD CLUB – Il dialogo tra scienze linguistiche e nuove tecnologie. University of Bologna, Italy.
- Ferraresi, A. (2023) “Beyond CAT tools. Why you need corpora in translation”. 11-15 December, workshop, Winter school in Translation Studies. University of Ca’ Foscari, Treviso, Italy.
- Ferraresi, A. (2021) “La traduzione e l'interpretazione a confronto. Costruzione e analisi del corpus intermodale EPTIC”. 16 April, lecture given at the Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies. Università di Trieste, Italy.
- Ferraresi, A. (2020b) “Corpus construction tools for all. Achievements in specialised web-as-corpus building, and a few open challenges”. 7 November, keynote speech, ARANEA Conference 2020. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava.
- Ferraresi, A. (2020a) “Do it yourself! Building specialised corpora for translation and terminology with BootCaT (and beyond)”. 1 September, keynote speech, X Escola Brasileira de Linguística Computacional, Brazil.
OTHER RESEARCH-RELATED ACTIVITIES
- Member of the scientific committee of the conferences: UCCTS – Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (2 editions: Poznan, Poland, 2023; Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2018); CADS – Corpora & Discourse International Conference (Bertinoro, Italy, 2022); TRICKLET conference “Model building in empirical translation studies” (Aachen, Germany, 2022); 3rd International Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (Forlì, Italy, 2021); Language Resources and Evaluation (4 editions: Marseille, France, 2020; Miyazaki, Japan, 2018; Portorož, Slovenia, 2016; Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014); Poznań Linguistic meeting (Poznań, Poland, 2019); Translation [and interpreting] in transition 3 (Gent, Belgium, 2017); 9th Web as Corpus workshop (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014).
- Member of the scientific board of the journal NOVÁ FILOLOGICKÁ REVUE.
- Reviewing for journal articles and book proposals: The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Taylor & Francis (2022); The Interpreter’s newsletter (2022); I-LanD Journal (2022, 2021); Text and talk, de Gruyter (2021); Tradumàtica (2021); Estudios de Traducción (2020); Target, Benjamins (2020); MediAzioni (2020); Intralinea (2020, 2016, 2010, 2009); Brill Academic Publisher (book chapter, 2020); The Translator, Taylor and Francis (2019); EL.LE, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (2019); Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press (2019); Languages in contrast, Benjamins (2019); Acta Psychologica, Elsevier (2018); Routledge (book chapter, 2017); Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, Springer (2016, 2012, 2010); Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, de Gruyter (2013).
- Member of the organising committee of the conferences/workshops: UCCTS 2021, Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (Bertinoro, Italy, 9-11 September 2021; conference co-chair, together with Silvia Bernardini); TeTra 5 (Technologies for Translation): Is Translation Dead? (Forlì, Italy, 14-15 March 2019); TechLING’17: Languages, Linguistics and Technology (Forlì, Italy, 10-11 November 2017); tetraTeTra (Technologies for Translation): Back to Innovation (Forlì, Italy, 30 September 2016); TeTra 3 (Tecnologie per la Traduzione). Collaborare, condividere, partecipare: traduzione e software libero nell'era del web 2.0 (Forlì, Italy, 24-25 January 2014); Corpus-based Interpreting Studies: the state of the art (Forlì, Italy, 7-8 May 2015).
- Collaboration with Google Italy in the development of the Localization Essentials MOOC. Tasks: providing advice/feedback on course contents in the initial stages of development and testing (from April 2016 to July 2017).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (2017-2022)
- Felici, A. and A. Ferraresi (2022) “Formulaic language in Swiss legislation: A corpus- based trilingual parallel investigation”. Transius conference. 27-29 June, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
- Bernardini, S., A. Ferraresi and M. Miličević Petrović (2022) “A curious mindset and love of experimentation. A corpus perspective on emerging language industry jobs”. 10th EST Congress. 22-25 June, University of Oslo, Norway.
- Ferraresi, A. and S. Bernardini (2019) “Lexical simplification in English and Italian Eurolects: (con|di)vergences”. XXIX AIA Conference. 5-7 September, University of Padova.
- Bernardini, S. and A. Ferraresi (2019) “Translation and interpreting as contact varieties. A multidimensional analysis of EPTIC”. International CIUTI conference: Bridging the Divide between Theory and Practice. 3-5 June, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
- Ferraresi, A., I. Ivaska and S. Bernardini (2018) “Translation, genres and source languages. Searching for phraseological regularities from the bottom up”. International conference on Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). 12-14 September, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- Bernardini, S., A. Ferraresi and M. Miličević (2018) “Collocations in contact. Explorations into native and lingua franca, translated and interpreted English”. International Congress of Linguists. 2-6 July, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Ferraresi, A. (2017) “How specialized? Terminological density as a clue to text specialization or popularization in the domain of food safety”. Clavier 17 - International Conference. 30 November-2 December, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”.
- Ferraresi, A. and S. Bernardini (2017) “The idiom principle in action. Investigating lexical conventionality in a multimodal corpus”. XXVIII AIA Conference. 14-16 September, University of Pisa.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- 2021-present: 40-hour course on Terminology (MA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
- 2021-present: 40-hour course on Profession-based research (MA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
- 2014-present: 40-hour course on Terminology and Information Mining (MA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
- 2018: 40-hour course on Translation from English to Italian II (BA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
- 2017: 40-hour course on Translation from English to Italian I (BA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
- 2013: 20-hour course on Localization (MA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
- 2012: 40-hour course on Information Mining and Localization (MA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
- 2011-2012: 40-hour course on Translation from English to Italian I (BA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
- 2009: 40-hour course on Computer-assisted translation from English into Italian (BA level), Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna at Forlì.
PhD SUPERVISION
- Alessandro Gregori. Automatic Speech Translation (AST): the AST Technology to break down the barriers of communication, specifically for physically-impaired users . University of Bologna. [Provisional title. 2017-present]
- Francesca Poli. Adverb + adjective collocations in a spoken learner corpus: A quantitative and qualitative approach. Catholic University of Milan. [Co-supervisor. 2019-2021]
- Anna Zingaro. Progettazione e sperimentazione di unità didattiche sul neostandard per l'insegnamento dell’italiano a stranieri. University of Bologna [Supervisor. 2017-2021]
- Chiara Bartolini. An audience-oriented approach to European university museums’ online communication: how effectively do they communicate on their website? University of Bologna [Completed. 2016-2020]
- Erika Dalan. Promotional English on the web: native and ELF university websites. University of Bologna [Co-supervisor. Completed. 2015-2018].
GRANTS AND AWARDS
- 2012-2016: Post-doctoral research grant awarded by the Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna).
- 2009: 3-year study grant awarded by the Doctoral school in English for Special Purposes, Department of statistics, University of Naples "Federico II".
- 2008: Research grant awarded by the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies on Translation, Languages and Cultures (University of Bologna at Forlì), funded through the “LiMiNe: Linguistic Mining of the Net” project.
- 2008: “Guido Paolucci” award as best student of his Faculty in the academic year 2006/2007, funded by Rotary Club Bologna.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 2008-2016: Freelance translator, editor and terminologist for “Crossknowledge” (Wiley Group; Paris, France). Domains: localization, e-learning, management. Languages: EN/FR => IT.
- 2006: Translator and subtitler for the “Sedicicorto” short film Festival (Forlì, Italy). Languages: EN/FR => IT.
