Igor Facchini

EDUCATION

• 2022-2026: PhD in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (38th cycle), Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of Interpretation and Translation. Final grade: Excellent cum laude. Thesis: Gender-fair language in orality: Empirical evidence from conference interpreting at the European Union institutions and spoken communication in an Italian public administration.
• 2019-2022: 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”. Thesis: Linguaggio non binario in interpretazione di conferenza: uno studio sperimentale sull’applicabilità dello schwa in interpretazione consecutiva dall’inglese in italiano.
• 2016-2019: BA in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of Interpretation and Translation. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• A.Y. 2026/2027: teaching tutor (40 hours) for the course French Language and Laboratory II (held by Professor Valeria Illuminati) of the First cycle degree programme in International Studies, Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS), University of Bologna, Forlì Campus.
• A.Y. 2026/2027: teaching tutor (40 hours) for the course French Language and Laboratory II (A) (held by Professor Rachele Raus) of the First cycle degree programme in International relations and diplomatic affairs, Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS), University of Bologna, Forlì Campus.
• A.Y. 2025/2026: teaching tutor (10 hours) for the course Intercultural and Gender Studies (held by Professor Raffaella Baccolini) of the First cycle degree programme in Languages, Technologies and Intercultural Communication, Department of Interpretation and Translation (DIT), University of Bologna, Forlì Campus.
• A.Y. 2024/2025: research seminar (2 hours) Linguaggio di genere e innovazioni linguistiche: una sfida per l’interprete for the PhD programme in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Department of Interpretation and Translation (DIT), University of Bologna, Forlì Campus.
• A.Y. 2024/2025: teaching tutor (40 hours) for the course Theory and Practice of Specialized Dialogical Interpretation (held by Professor Natacha Niemants) of the Second cycle degree programme in Intepreting, Department of Interpretation and Translation (DIT), University of Bologna, Forlì Campus.

RESEARCH-RELATED ACTIVITIES

• Reviewer of articles for Meta : Journal des traducteurs / Meta: Translators’ Journal and for Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Member of the program committee of the Fourth International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) 2026 Conference (Tilburg, The Netherlands, 15 June 2026).
• Member of the scientific and organising committee of the conference What’s research got to do with it? Ultime frontiere della ricerca linguistica, inclusione e impatto sociale (Forlì, Italy, 12-13 May 2025).
  

AWARDS

• Honourable Mention in the 2025 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies: award received for the proposed monograph Queering Interpreting Studies: Gender-Fair and Non-Binary Language in Conference Interpreting, to be published by Peter Lang in the New Trends in Translation Studies series. 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “Gender-fair language in conference interpreting: visibility beyond the binary in consecutive and simultaneous modes”. 6th European Colloquium on Gender and Translation: Encounters between Intersectional Feminisms and Translation & Interpreting, organised by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 8-10 July 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain).
• “Lost in a binary translation: Interpreting gender fairness from English into Romance Languages”. Gender and Sexuality in/and the Romance Languages, organised by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. 21-22 February 2025, University of Chicago, Chicago (Illinois, USA).
• “Interpréter l’inclusivité : la communication institutionnelle inclusive à l’épreuve de l’interprétation simultanée”. Inclusion, communication institutionnelle et traduction, organised by the Groupe de recherche Do.Ri.F. Communication institutionnelle et traduction. 5 December 2024, University of Turin, Turin (Italy).
  
• “Balancing subjectivity and fidelity: ethical perspectives on gender-fair language in interpreting for EU institutions”. 5th Valencia Workshop on Gender and Language: “Towards Feminist Translator Studies”, organised by the Gender, Language & Sexual (In)equality Research Group (GENTEXT). 7-8 November 2024, Universitat de València, Valencia (Spain).
• “Evaluating language policies and innovations in orality: a study on gender-fair simultaneous interpreting in the EU”. Gender-inclusive language in a multilingual Europe: Institutional policies, their applications and AI-related developments (LaGendA), organised by Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. 3-4 ottobre 2024, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice (Italy).
• “Attitudes towards gender-sensitive institutional communication in Italian and French among EU interpreters”. Lavender 30 Language and Linguistics, organised by University of Brighton. 21-23 August 2024, University of Brighton, Brighton (United Kingdom).
• “Navigating non-binary expression: challenges and solutions for spoken language guidelines across Romance languages”. Gender Diversity Across Europe - Devising Solutions from Interdisciplinary & Intersectoral Perspectives, organised by G-VERSITY - Achieving Gender Diversity. 12-14 June 2024, Universität Bern, Bern (Switzerland).
  
• “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 the I-Land Inter-university Research Center. 14-16 December 2023, University of Turin, 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, Edinburgh (United Kingdom).
  
• “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, Brisbane (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, London (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, Paris (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, 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, Genoa (Italy).

SEMINARS AND PUBLIC OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

• Webinar “Inclusività di genere: un grattacapo per la comunicazione orale dell’interprete (e non solo)” given for Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti (AITI). 25 March 2026.
• Seminar “Inclusività di genere nella lingua orale delle istituzioni” given for Servizio informazione e comunicazione istituzionale dell’Assemblea legislativa della Regione Emilia-Romagna. 14 November 2024, Legislative Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Bologna (Italy).
• Roundtable “L’écriture inclusive à travers un éclairage international”. Biennale des langues 2024, organised by La Caravane Des Dix Mots. 26 May 2024, Centre Berthelot, Lyon (France).
• Talk “Le langage inclusif : qu’en pensent les interprètes de l’Union européenne ?”. Biennale des langues 2024, organised by La Caravane Des Dix Mots. 25 May 2024, Centre Berthelot, Lyon (France).
• Seminar “Présentation de projet de recherche sur l’inclusivité de genre dans la communication orale en contexte institutionnel” given for Knowledge Centre on Translation and Interpretation (KCTI) Research Corners. 30 April 2024, Directorate-General for Interpretation of the European Commission, Brussels (Belgium).
• Seminar “Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of gender-fair language in conference interpreting at SCIC” given for European Diversity Month 2024. 29 April 2024, Directorate-General for Interpretation of the European Commission, Brussels (Belgium).
• Webinar “Gender-fair and non-sexist language in interpreting” given for European Masters in Conference Interpreting (EMCI) Research and Innovation Committee. 18 October 2023.

STAYS ABROAD

• February 2024 - April 2024: research stay 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).