EDUCATION
2004 – Ph.D., Humanistic and Renaissance Culture, University of Pisa.
2000 – B.A./M.A. Degree, Italian literature, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2025 (to date) – Full professor of Italian Linguistics, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna.
2019-2025 – Full professor of Italian Linguistics, Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University.
2019-2024 (leave of absence from August 2019) – Associate professor of Italian Linguistics, Department of Medieval, Humanistic and Renaissance Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
2009-2019 − Assistant professor of Italian Linguistics, Department of Medieval, Humanistic and Renaissance Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
200i-2008 – Adjunct professor of Italian Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
2025 – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Research Fellowship for a renewed research stay, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.
2017 ‒ Research Collaboration Award from the University of Western Australia as co-applicant in collaboration with John Kinder, Hilary Carey, Jacqueline Van Gent, Emma Moreton, Susan Fitzmaurice, Eleonora Rai.
2014-2015 – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Research Fellowship for experienced researchers, Saarland University.
2005-2008 ‒ Research grant from the Catholic university centre of Rome. Project title: “Studies on Chirch, Italian and dialects in the late 19th century”.
2003 – Visiting scholar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
2001 – Visiting scholar, University College London.
PRIZES
2017 ‒ Prize for high quality publications awarded by the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, for the monograph Passione Trivulziana, Berlin – Boston, de Gruyter, 2016.
ACADEMIC SERVICES
2024-2025 – Vicarious member of the board for human sciences, Stockholm University.
2024-2025 – Member of the board of the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University.
2021-2023 – Director of the Romance Linguistics seminar at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University.
2021-2023 – Vicarious member of the board of the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University.
2021-2023 − Member of the board that allocates funding to projects within the Romance Linguistics field at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University.
2020 − Board member of the Doctoral School in “Italianistica”, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice.
2012-2019 − Board member of the Doctoral School in “Studi umanistici. Tradizione e contemporaneità”, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
2022 (to date) ‒ member of the advisory editorial board of “Giornale di Storia della Lingua Italiana”, www.serena.unina.it/index.php/gisli.
2021 (to date) ‒ member of the advisory editorial board of the book series “Lingua del sì” published by Aracne and directed by Yorick Gomez Gane.
2018 (to date) ‒ member of the advisory editorial board of the book series “Didattica dell’italiano” published by Bononia University Press and directed by Matteo Viale.
PHD THESIS SUPERVISION
2023 (to date) – Anna Terzi, Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University (main supervisor).
2019-2024 – Marta Garbelli, Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University (main supervisor).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AS VISITING PROFESSOR
2021-2024 – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
2019 – State Pedagogical University of Novosibirsk.
2010, 2011, 2013, 2016 – St. Tikhon Orthodox University, Moscow.
2010-2012 – Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Esztergom, Szeged, Eger, EU financed project “Ponti”.
2006, 2009, 2015 – Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba.
2001, 2011-2012 – State University of Novosibirsk.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-2019 – staff member at the Lessico Etimologico Italiano (LEI).
2013 – Lecturer in Italian Linguistics Pedagogy, “Tirocinio Formativo Attivo. Classe A043” [training course for high school teachers], Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
2010-2012− Lecturer in Italian language teaching, Foreign languages Faculty, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
2004-2005 – Language instructor in Italian, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Summer courses.
2003-2005 – Erasmus tutor for outgoing students, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
CONFERENCES, STUDY DAYS, TRAINING COURSES AND SEMINARS (PROMOTER)
2022 – International Conference “Pier Paolo Pasolini tra letteratura, lingua e cinema 1922-2022” [Pier Paolo Paolini between literature, language, and cinema 1922-2022] (Stockholm University, together with Anna Finozzi, Marta Garbelli, Cecilia Schwartz, Tiziano Toracca).
2021 – International Conference “Dante and his heritage 1321-2021” (The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm, together with Anders Cullhed and Tzortzis Ikonomou).
2019 – International Conference “Cultura e identità nazionale nella storia della grammatica” [Culture and national identity in the history of grammar] (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, together with Simone Pregnolato).
2017 ‒ International Conference “Storia sacra e profana nei volgarizzamenti medioevali. Rilievi di lingua e di cultura” [Religious and lay history in Medieval vernacular translations. Linguistic and cultural remarks] (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, together with Paolo Pellegrini).
2016 – 50th International Conference of the Società Linguistica Italiana [Italian Society for Linguistics] “La cultura linguistica italiana in confronto con le culture linguistiche di altri paesi europei dall’Ottocento in poi” [The Italian linguistic culture in relationship with other European linguistic cultures from XIXth century on] (University of Milan-Bicocca − University of Milan − Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, organizing committee coordinator: Emanuele Banfi).
2010 − Seminar “Tra storia della lingua e storia della letteratura” [Between language history and literature history] (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, together with Andrea Canova).
2007 – Conference “Carducci filologo e la filologia su Carducci” [Carducci philologist and the philology on Carducci] (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan).
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (PROMOTER)
2018-2019 ‒ Scientific director, together with Giuseppe Langella, of the Winter School “L’italiano nella scuola secondaria di secondo grado” [Teaching Italian language and literature at high school] (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, two editions).
2017-2019 ‒ Scientific director, together with Daniela Notarbartolo, of the Winter School “L’italiano nella scuola secondaria di primo grado” [Teaching Italian language and literature at junior high school] (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, three editions).
2016.10.26 – Seminar “Problemi e prospettive nell’insegnamento del lessico dalla primaria alla secondaria di II grado” [Problems and perspectives on vocabulary teching from primary to high school], on behalf of the “Associazione per la Storia della Lingua Italiana” [Association for the History of the Italian language], School section (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, together with Ilaria Bonomi).
2014.02.24 – Seminar “Per un curricolo verticale dell’insegnamento della lingua italiana nella scuola” [For a step-by-step approach to Italian language teaching at school], on behalf of the “Associazione per la Storia della Lingua Italiana” [Association for the History of the Italian language], School section (University of Milan, together with Ilaria Bonomi).
2014-2019 – Training course “I Lincei per una nuova didattica nella scuola: una rete nazionale” [The Lincean Academy for a new teaching method at school. A national network] (promoted by Accademia dei Lincei – Fondazione Grazioli), Brescia, Italian unit (six editions).
2014-2016 − Board member of the School section in the “Associazione per la Storia della Lingua Italiana” (Association for the History of the Italian language).
LINGUISTIC SKILLS
Italian: native speaker; English: excellent (CEFR level C1/C2); Swedish: very good (C1); German: very good (C1); French: fairly good (B1); Spanish: basic (A1). Latin: excellent; Old Greek: good.
As of September 2025
