Training
After graduating in Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures (German and English) at the Catholic University of Milan with a thesis in computing linguistics on Old English texts, I attended a post-graduation programme in didactic of German language at the University of Trier (Germany), achieving the Zuzatzzertifikat Daf – Deutsch als Fremdsprache und Landeskunde.
Academic career
From 1988 to 1994 I worked as teacher of Italian language and literature at the University of Trier and at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität of Mainz. In 1996 I became adjunct professor in Translation (German into Italian) at the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna), where I specialized in comics translation, in technical and editorial translation as well as in didactic of translation teaching.
Teaching activity
Since 1996 I have been teaching various courses of the Bachelor and Master Degree programmes at the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation. I am currently teaching "Tific Translation for publishing" (within the Master's Degree in Specialized Translation) as well as "Translation from German into Italian" (within the Degree in Intercultural Language Mediation).
Since 1998 I have collaborated with the Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici (Higher School for Language Mediators) in Vicenza, where I have taught courses in language, literature and history of the German language in the three-year programme and courses in technical-scientific and editorial translation from German in the first-level Master's programme.
From 2019 to 2025 I held German language courses at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bologna and at the University of Ferrara within the courses of Cultural Itinerary Management and Communication Sciences and Technologies.
Since 2025 I have been collaborating with the Centro Linguistico di Ateneo (CLA)of the University of Bologna as teacher of German language
Professional activity
Since 1998 I have been working as a freelance translator in the field of technical and literary translation.
For the Italian publisher Bompiani I translated, in 1997, the book “Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt“ by the German writer W. G. Sebald.
My cooperation with the Italian publisher UTET brought me to translate German manuals about building techniques and architecture into Italian. I am the Italian translation of the Brazilian writer Caio F. Abreu, published by Quarup. Fort he same publisher I translated, in 2012, a collection of short stories by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto.
From 2001 I am a member of AITI (Italian Association for Translators and Interpreters) within which I regularly attend seminars and workshop about translating issues.
In 2005 I founded the CeLuBra, a cultural centre in Bologna for the teaching and diffusion of Portuguese and Brazilian language and culture.
