Education
- Currently - Ph.D. in Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion, LINGMOD curriculum (Modern Language Sciences) at the University of Bologna.
- 2021 - Master's Degree (LM-38) in Language, Society, and Communication obtained at the University of Bologna with a final grade of 110/110 with honors.
- 2016 - Bachelor's Degree (L-11) in Foreign Languages and Literatures obtained at the University of Bologna.
Scholarships
- 2023 - Erasmus Freie Universität Berlin: scholarship for academic and professional merits for one semester
2022 - Summer school Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: winner of a scholarship for academic and professional merits funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Conferences and Conventions
- 2023 - NORDISCO, the 7th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction, Tampere University, 16 novembre, Tampere. Participation in the conference with the presentation A decolonial representation of “the Other” in discourse: The construction of Namibian identities in the German press.
- 2023 - 10th International Conference on Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties, Universität Leipzig, August 23rd, Lipsia, online. Participation in the conference with the presentation Multilingualism in Africa: the role of the German language within the German speaking community in Namibia.
- 2022 - Re-construction and Responsibility: An Itinerary through Diversities and Inclusion, final conference of the Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Cultures (LILEC) Excellence Project, University of Bologna, December 17th, Bologna. Participation in the conference with the presentation The transnational identities of Namdeutsch speakers.
- 2022 - Das heutige gesprochene Deutsch zwischen Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel, University of Turin, September 22nd, Turin. Participation in the conference with the presentation Gesprochenes Deutsch im Viertelzentrum Namibia: Namdeutsch in den sozialen Medien.
- 2022 - Second Postgraduate Symposium on Linguacultural Spaces: Inclusion, Extension, and Identification in Discourse and Society, University of Bologna, University of Glasgow, Tilburg University, May 10-11th, Bologna, Glasgow, Tilburg, online. Participation in the conference with the presentation Identities in change in postcolonial contexts: the case of Namdeutsch in written communication.
- 2022 - Täter, Mitläufer e la responsabilità del male: la voce di Hannah Arendt, University of Bologna, January 27th, Bologna. Participation in the roundtable discussion with the presentation L’amnesia coloniale: la rimozione del passato tra Germania e Namibia.
- 2021 - German Abroad 4: Perspectives from Variationist Sociolinguistics, Language Contact, and Multilingualism, University of Namibia, September 27-28th, Windhoek, online. Participation in the conference with the presentation Namdeutsch: Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchungder Frequenz von Namibismen in der Zeitungssprache.
Courses and Seminars
- 2023 - Translanguaging in the Age of (Im)mobility, Högskolan Dalarna, June 12-14, Falun.
- 2022 - Do we practice what we preach?, Humboldt University of Berlin, RUEG, July 11, Berlin.
- 2022 - GenDErIT: prospettive comparative e contrastive sul linguaggio inclusivo, DAAD, May 7, online.
- 2022 - Deutsche Sprachminderheiten weltweit kontrastiv: Fallstudien, Methoden und Korpora (DSWK 2022 Bamberg), University of Bamberg, March 3-4, Bamberg.
- 2021 - Lingue in Progress: Aspetti del mutamento e del contatto linguistico ieri ed oggi, University of Bologna FICLIT, January 22, Bologna.
- 2019 - Translation as Metaphor, Winter School LILEC, University of Bologna, December 3-5, Bologna.
- 2018 - Audiovisual Translation and Subtitling Course, University of Bologna and Demetra Formazione, Bologna.
