CURRENT POSITION
09/2025-now: Adjunct Professor of Advanced Japanese Language; Department of Interpretation and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy.
EDUCATION
- 09/2021-07/2025: PhD in Asian and African Studies (Japanese Studies); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy & Heidelberg University, Germany.
- 09/2023-09/2024: Research stay; Heidelberg University, Germany.
- 10/2022-03/2023: Research stay; Kyōto University, Japan.
- 11/2018-04/2021: Master’s degree in Languages and Civilization of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (Japanese Language); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
- 10/2019-03/2020: Study abroad period; Kōbe University, Japan.
- 09/2015-11/2018: Bachelor’s degree in Language, Culture and Society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (Japanese Language); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
- 04/2018-06/2018: Study abroad period; University of Kōchi, Japan.
TEACHING
- 09/2025-now: Advanced Japanese Language (MA); Department of Interpretation and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy
- 02/2025-06/2025: Tutor in MA courses of Japanese Language; Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
- 03/2023-06/2023: Tutor in MA courses of Japanese Language; Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
- 03/2022-06/2022: Tutor in MA courses of Japanese Language; Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
- 09/2023: Research Grant - Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees / Cotutelle: granted by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austaschdienst, DAAD), for a year abroad as part of the cotutelle agreement; Heidelberg University, Germany.
- 10/2022: JASSO Scholarship: granted by Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), for a semester abroad; Kyōto University, Japan.
- 11/2021: Honourable mention; Premio AV for the best dissertations about video games; Archivio Videoludico Cineteca di Bologna, Italy.
- 06/2021: 3-year PhD full scholarship; granted by Department of Asian and African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
- 10/2019: JASSO Scholarship: granted by JASSO for a semester abroad; Kōbe University, Japan.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
- 11/2025: Ideologie linguistiche nella cultura pop giapponese: Caratterizzazione e percezioni nei dialoghi videoludici [Language Ideologies in Japanese Pop Culture Characterisation and Perceptions in Written Video Game Dialogues]; invited lecture, University of Pavia, Italy (scheduled for November, 2025).
- 09/2024: La lingua giapponese attraverso i videogiochi [Japanese language through video games]; public scientific outreach as part of the European Researchers’ Night, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (September 27, 2024).
- 06/2024: Language use in contemporary Japanese video games. Sociolinguistic variation and users’ and developers’ perceptions; invited lecture, Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany (June 6, 2024).
- 11/2023: Language use in contemporary Japanese video games. Sociolinguistic variation and users’ and developers’ perceptions; invited lecture, Anglistisches Seminar, Heidelberg University, Germany (November 21, 2023).
- 09/2023: L’uso della lingua nei videogiochi. Variazione sociolinguistica e percezioni degli utenti [Language use in video games: Sociolinguistic variation and users’ perceptions]; XLVII AISTUGIA (Italian Association for Japanese Studies) Conference, Florence, Italy (September 15, 2023).
- 03/2023: Panel chair; PhD Symposium on Precarity: Possibilities for Humans and Things, Venice, Italy (March 30, 2023).
- 08/2022: Role language and character language of anthropomorphic non-human characters in Japanese video games; 18th European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) Workshop for Doctoral Students, Olomouc, Czech Republic (August 25, 2022).
SERVICE
- 06/2025-now: Review Editor for H-Japan (H-Net Network on Japanese History and Culture).
- 02/2025-now: Reviewer for Journal of East Asian Pragmatics.
- 04/2023-01/2025: Representative of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in the Student Council of EUTOPIA.
- 11/2022-01/2025: Student representative of the PhD programme in Asian and African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
- 04/2018-06/2018: Voluntary teaching assistant for Italian as a Foreign Language for adult students, during study abroad period in Kōchi, Japan.
LANGUAGES
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Italian – first language.
- English – second language.
- Japanese – third language; JLPT N1; BJT Business Japanese Proficiency Test Level J2.
- Other languages studied: German.
AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
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EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies)
- AISTUGIA (Italian Association for Japanese Studies)
- AIDLG (Italian Association for Japanese Language Teaching)
- ISEAS (Italian School of East Asian Studies)
- DiGRA Italia (Italian Digital Games Research Association)
