Second-year PhD student (38th cycle) of the PhD programme in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (curriculum in Interpreting) at the Department of Interpretation and Translation of the University of Bologna, with scholarship funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) for programmes related to the Public Administration.
My research project focuses on gender inclusivity in spoken institutional language.
EDUCATION
- 2022: enrolled in the PhD programme in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (38th cycle), Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of Interpretation and Translation.
- 2022: MA in Interpreting, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of Interpretation and Translation. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude with special mention: “recommendation for publication”.
- 2019: BA in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of Interpretation and Translation. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.
STAYS ABROAD
- February 2024 - April 2024: traineeship at the Strategy, Policy and Communication Unit of the Directorate-General for Interpretation (DG SCIC), European Commission (Brussels, Belgium).
- October 2023 - January 2024: Marco Polo scholarship as visiting PhD student at Laboratoire de Recherche en Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Etrangères et Maternelles (LIDILEM), Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France).
- September 2018 - February 2019: Swiss-European Mobility Programme scholarship at Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland).
- September 2017 - February 2018: Erasmus+ scholarship at INALCO, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris, France).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS
- “When mistranslation means misgendering: identity representation in conference interpreting from English into Italian”. Languaging identities in changing times: Challenges and opportunities (Languaging Diversity 2023), organised by I-Land Inter-university Research Center. 14-16 December 2023, University of Turin, Italy.
- “Queer (mis)representation in interpreting: investigating feasibility and acceptability in institutions”. The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI 2023), organised by Heriot-Watt University. 23-24 November 2023, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom.
- Webinar “Gender-fair and non-sexist language in interpreting”. Organised by EMCI Research and Innovation Committee. 18 October 2023.
- “Speaking beyond the gender binary: the challenges of non-binary language in Italian”. Gender, Language & Sustainable Organisations (IGALA12), organised by the International Gender and Language Association. 4-6 July 2023, University of Queensland, Australia.
- “Re-languaging queer identities across spoken languages: what is lost in translation into Italian?”. Challenging the Binary: Non-Binary, Genderqueer, and Gender-Neutral Language, organised by UCL (University College London). 13-15 June 2023, UCL, United Kingdom.
- “Fidélité et fluidité de genre en interprétation de conférence : le langage inclusif non-binaire est-il intraduisible ?”. Rencontres des jeunes traductologues 2023. Traduction et interprétation : entre théorie et pratique, organised by Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and Université Paris Cité. 4 May 2023, Université Paris Cité, France.
- “Non-binary language in spoken Italian: a qualitative analysis of schwa endings and other queer approaches to translation and orality”. Dismantling the CIS-tem: Queer and trans perspectives on language, gender and sexuality, organised by the British Association of Applied Linguistics’ Special Interest Group for Language, Gender and Sexuality. 2 May 2023, University of Brighton, United Kingdom.
- “Non binarismo di genere e oralità: è fattibile parlare con lo schwa?”. Il futuro imprevisto. Genere, sessualità, politiche. Prospettive storiche e sguardi critici sul presente, organised by AG About Gender – International Journal of Gender Studies and Rete GIFTS – Italian Network of Gender, Intersex, Feminist, Transfeminist and Sexuality Studies. 9-11 February 2023, University of Genoa, Italy.
