Academic qualifications and appointments:
1985-1987: School: United World College
of the Adriatic (Duino, Italy), scholarship, International
Baccalaureate Diploma.
1987-1992: University Undergraduate:
Università degli Studi di Bologna - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
– Graduated in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti della Musica e dello
Spettacolo), 110 cum laude (i.e. maximum mark)
1992 -1996: University Postgraduate:
Università degli Studi di Bologna - Admitted to PhD in semiotics
under the supervision of Professor Umberto Eco.
1994: Brown University, Providence, R.I., USA,
awarded a semester scholarship
1996: Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne,
IULM, Milan, awarded a research grant for study relating to
“Osservatorio sui problemi socio-comunicazionali
dell'informazione”
Graduated PhD in semiotics.
1997- 1999: University Post doctorate:
Università degli Studi di Bologna - Dipartimento di Discipline
della Comunicazione, awarded a grant for post doctorate
research
1997- 1998: Istituto Universitario di Lingue
Moderne, IULM, Milan, contracted to lecture in Semiotics.
1998 - 1999: Università degli Studi di Bologna
(Rimini campus), appointed lecturer in Theory and Techniques of
Mass Communication.
Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione I.UL.M, Milan,
awarded a grant for teaching and research in Semiotics.
2000 - 2010: Università degli studi di
Bologna - Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, appointed
coordinator of scientific activities
2000-2003: Università degli studi di Bologna –
Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, awarded Research
Fellowship for a three year research project on “Corpo e semiotica:
problemi di testualità e di efficacia simbolica”, under the
supervision of Professor Umberto Eco.
2003: Université de Montréal, Département de
Littérature Comparée, Visiting Research Fellowship (September
2001)
2003- 2004: The University of Nottingham
(School of Modern Languages); Leverhulme Research Fellowship,
Project on “Post-conflict cultures”.
2004-2010: Università degli studi di Bologna;
Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione: “Ricercatrice”:
life-tenure appointment.
2004-2010: The University of Nottingham
Department of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
Appointed to Special Professorship
in Post-conflict Cultures
The appointment involved:
- Membership of the Management Board of the Centre for the study
of Post-Conflict Cultures
- Co-ordinating of the publication in Italian translation of
research of members of the Centre
- the organizing of an international colloquium on The
Genre of Post-Conflict Testimonies (Nottingham May 23-25th
2008) and Post-conflict Cultures: problems and directions of
research (Nottingham May 21-23th 2009).
Research projects:
2002-2011:
Member of the team from the Dipartimento di Discipline della
Comunicazione of the University of Bologna for a project financed
by the European Community and co-ordinated by the Centro di
Documentazione delle Donne di Bologna on “Autorappresentazioni e
rappresentazioni delle donne e del loro rapporto con le nuove
tecnologie”.
Member of the team from Ipsos-Explorer Reaserch Centre (Milan)
for a project financed by RAI on the “Rai Strategies of
Self-promotions”
Member of the team from the Dipartimento di Discipline della
Comunicazione of the University of Bologna for a research on the
topic "La rappresentazione del mediterraneo, fra memoria e
progetto. Stereotipi, nuove politiche identitarie, costruzioni
semiotiche", directed by Professor Patrizia Violi.
Member of the team from the Dipartimento di Discipline della
Comunicazione of the University of Bologna for a research on the
“Le passioni nei conflitti interculturali”.
Member of the team from the Dipartimento di Discipline della
Comunicazione of the University of Bologna for a
research on “Memoria, scrittura, testimonianza”.
Member of the Centre for the interdisciplinary Study of Memories
and Cultural Traumas of the Dipartimento di Discipline della
Comunicazione of the University of Bologna
