EDUCATION
- 01/11/2023 – TODAY
PHD STUDENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
PhD student of the course “Arts, history and society”.
PhD Project title: The Gender Gap in Italian TV Seriality.
- 25/02/2022
M.A. IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA
Master’s thesis title: “Comparing Women’s and Men’s Popular Health Discourse during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from the “Televised Medical Discourse Corpus”. Graduated with honors.
- 09/10/2019
B.A. IN MODERN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES, UNIVERSITY OF GENOA
Bachelor’s thesis title: “La polémique sull’écriture inclusive su Twitter: motivazioni e argomentazioni”. Graduated with honors.
- 04/07/2016
LANGUAGE HIGH SCHOOL CERTIFICATE, I.I.S. SANDRO PERTINI, CAMPOBASSO
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (IN ITALY)
- 01/03/2025 – 31/03/2025
PART-TIME RESEARCHER, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
Researcher on the PRIN20 Narrative ecosystem analysis and development framework (NEAD framework). A systemic approach to contemporary serial product. The medical drama case.
- 09/11/2022 – 02/10/2023
TEACHING TUTOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
Teaching tutor of the course “English Language and Translation”, bachelor degree in DAMS.
- 01/10/2022 – 30/09/2023
RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
Research fellow on the research project of national interest “Narrative Ecosystem Analysis and Development framework (NEAD framework). A systemic approach to contemporary serial product. The medical drama case.”.
- 01/2020 – 12/2020
PART-TIME RESEARCHER, DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA
Researcher on the T-PAS (Typed Predicate-Argument Structure) project.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (ABROAD)
- 01/09/2024 – 28/02/2025
VISITING SCHOLAR, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'AUDIOVISUEL (INA), BRY-SUR-MARNE, FRANCE.
Visiting scholar.
- 06/09/2021 – 17/12/2021
TEACHING ASSISTANT, ITALIAN DEPARTMENT, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY (NUIG), IRELAND.
Erasmus+ Traineeship.
- 11/01/2021 – 03/07/2021
RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP HOLDER FOR MASTER’S THESIS PURPOSES, SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, COVENTRY, UK.
Erasmus+ Study.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
• 10-11/04/2025
“Women Off-Screen: A Data-Driven Analysis of Gender Inequalities in Italian TV Serial Production (2000-2023)” (with Guglielmo Pescatore).
Gemini-Scapes. Detecting the Interplay between Serial Dramas, Gender Issues and European Young Audiences.
Link Campus University, Rome
• 23-24/05/2024
“Creativity Unbound: Rethinking Audiovisual Authorship in the Artificial Intelligence Era” (with Allegra Sonego).
Media Mutations 15 International Conference: The Matter of Intellectual Property: Studying the Economic, Political and Cultural Nodes of the Contemporary Media Industries.
University of Bologna
• 25-27/05/2023
“Climate Change as a Narrative Device to Resolve the Plot: The TV series The Affair as a Case Study”
ECHIC – The European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres International Symposium: Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing
University of Ferrara, Italy
• 18-19/05/2023
“Adopting NLP Techniques to Analyze Twitter Social Discourses Around The Good Doctor”
Media Mutations 14 International Conference: Investigating Medical Drama TV Series: Approaches and Perspectives.
University of Bologna, Italy
GUEST LECTURES
- 06/06/2024
“Donne off-screen: Un'analisi data-driven delle disuguaglianze di genere nella serialità italiana (2000-2023)” (with Guglielmo Pescatore)
Lecture given as part of the PhD seminars “Studi sul cinema e sui media: prospettive di ricerca accademica”, organized by Claudio Bisoni.
Department of the Arts, University of Bologna
- 16/06/2023
“Digital media and community”.
Lecture given as part of the advanced training course “Innovatori Culturali: Processi, Pratiche e Metodi” (with Guglielmo Pescatore and Lorenzo Cattani)
Department of the Arts/DAMSLab, University of Bologna
MEMBERSHIPS
• Media Mutations Research Association – Research Team member. 2022-ongoing.
• Consulta Universitaria Cinema (CUC) Member. 2023-ongoing.
