Amparo Alemany

Contract Professor at the University of Bologna since 2024, conducting research in the field of Spanish linguistics. Research interests particularly focus on theoretical semantics and lexicology, discourse markers, discourse analysis, oral-colloquial Spanish, pragmatics, and the diachrony of Spanish.

Graduate in Hispanic Studies: Spanish Language and Literature in 2017 from the Faculty of Philology, Translation, and Communication at the University of Valencia.

• University Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies: Applications and Research from the Faculty of Philology, Translation, and Communication at the University of Valencia in 2018.

• University Master's Degree for Secondary Education Teachers specializing in Spanish Language from the Faculty of Education at the University of Valencia in 2019.

Awarded a Doctorate (PhD) in Advanced Hispanic Studies, specializing in Spanish Linguistics, from the University of Valencia. Thesis funded by a research contract (Personal Investigador en Formación - PIF) from the University of Valencia (Atracció del talent program).Thesis Title: "Pragmatic study of the temporal component in approximative adverbs. The case of aún and todavía. Supervisor: Professor Salvador Pons Bordería,  June 10, 2024. Grade: Sobresaliente (Outstanding). Distinctions: Cum laude and "International Doctorate" mention.

Research Grant Holder for the University of Verona: "Franciosini digitale: methods and applications for the digitization of Lorenzo Franciosini's Italian-Spanish bidirectional dictionary (1620)."

• 2024/2025: Contract Lecturer of Spanish Language for the Degree Course in Political, Social and International Sciences. Department of Political and Social Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna.

• July 25, 2024 - December 31, 2024: Contract Lecturer for Initial Teacher Training Programs (60 and 30 CFU, Annex 2 DPCM August 4, 2023) A.A. 2023/2024. Teaching activity for the course Didactics of the Spanish Language: methods, tools, and technologies (3 CFU - 18 hours).

• May 3, 2024 - August 31, 2024: Contract Lecturer for the course Technologies for Didactics and Relationship Building in the Teaching of Spanish Language and Culture (AC24): approaches (3 CFU - 18 hours) within the 30 CFU program ex Art. 13 of DPCM August 4, 2023 - A.A. 2023/2024.

• January 11, 2024 - December 31, 2024: Teaching Assistant at Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU).

• 2023/24: Visiting Lecturer for the course Spanish Language and Linguistics (2 hours). Master's Degree: Languages, Literatures and Digital Culture. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona.

• 2020/2023: Course Lecturer for Spanish Semantics (45 hours), Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Studies: Spanish Language and Literature, University of Valencia.

• 2020/2023: Course Lecturer for Standard and Correct Usage of Spanish (15 hours), Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Studies: Spanish Language and Literature, University of Valencia.

• Participates in the Research Project "Franciosini digitale: methods and applications for the digitization of Lorenzo Franciosini's Italian-Spanish bidirectional dictionary (1620)." Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, Component M4C2, Investment 1.1, PRIN2022 project titled "A new digital space for the lexicographical heritage: The "Tesoro digitale della lessicografia bilingue spagnolo-italiano," project code 20229W73WR, CUP code B53D23014440006.

• Junior Member of the Research Group on Colloquial Spanish Val.Es.Co. (Valencia, Español Coloquial). Project Director: Professor Antonio Briz Gómez. Faculty of Philology, Translation, and Communication, University of Valencia. Period: January 2019 - Present.

• Research Staff (Predoctoral Collaboration Grant) for the UDEMADIS Project. Project Director: Professor Salvador Pons Bordería. Faculty of Philology, Translation, and Communication, University of Valencia. Period: January 2019 - January 2021.

• Research Staff (Predoctoral Collaboration Grant) for the Pragmatic Analysis of Verbal Irony Project: Typology and Applications to Spanish as a Foreign Language Class. Project Director: Professor Leonor Ruiz Gurillo. Faculty of Philology, Translation, and Communication, University of Valencia. Period: January 2019 - January 2021.

• "Transcriber and Validator" for the Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI (CORPES) Project of the Real Academia Española. Faculty of Philology, Translation, and Communication, University of Valencia. Period: February 2017 - February 2019.

• Extraordinary Award: "Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Carrera en la titulación de Grado Universitario en Estudios Hispánicos: Lengua Española y sus Literaturas" (Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award in the University Degree in Hispanic Studies: Spanish Language and Literatures) granted by the Faculty of Philology, Translation, and Communication, January 23, 2018.

• Award for Academic Excellence granted by the Government of the Valencian Community (Generalitat Valenciana) on December 3, 2018.