EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies – 2022 – ongoing, University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum
Post-graduate research scholarship in the Erasmus + Upskills project – 2022, University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum
Master’s Degree in Specialised Translation with a final mark of 110/110 cum laude – 2022, University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum
Master’s Degree in Global Marketig, Communication and Made in Italy – 2021, Centro Studi Comunicare Impresa
Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation with a final mark of 110/110 cum laude – 2019, University of Naples L’Orientale
Summer School in ‘Transferable Skills’ – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Cremona), 2023
Summer School “Methods in Language Science" – Ghent University, 2023
MEDAL Summer School – University of Tartu, 2023
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Translator, Resources Curator, Project Manager, Revisor – 2021-2022, Bologna University Press (BUP)
Students Tutor – 2021-2022, University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum
Foreign Language Teacher – 2018-ongoing, Italienisch Lernen mit Francesca, Morgan School (Casoria), Berlitz
TEACHING
Didactic Tutor in DEH Project - MOOC on Text Processing
Didactic Tutor in Translation Theory and Practice – 2024-ongoing, University of Bologna
Seminar cycle ‘Managing Language Resources for the Exploration of Languaging Practices in Transcultural Settings’ – 2023, University of Bologna
Guest lecturer in the teaching course ‘Data Management and Open Science’ – 2023, University of Bologna
Seminar cycle ‘Ciclo formazione insegnanti’ – 2023-ongoing, online language school ‘Italienisch Lernen mit Francesca’
Seminar cycle ‘Research in Plurilingual Communication’ – 2023, University of Madeira
CONTRIBUTIONS
Presentation at PEP Conference - Roma, 2025
Presentation at International Conference Talking Data - Methodological and theoretical challenges raised by spoken interaction data - Bologna, 2025
Conference organization: What's Research Got To Do with it? - Forlì, 2025
CostLang2024 Dimensioni politiche e sociali dell’Insegnamento delle Lingue Straniere in Europa Paper presentation, entitled ‘In-Between Ideologies, Attitudes and Practices: Exploring Plurilingualism within European Digital Nomad Communities’ - Thessaloniki, 2025
SLE 2025 - Invited speaker in workshop 'United by language contact: Linguistics and Translation-Interpreting Studies in search of a
shared framework' - Bordeaux, 2025
Corpus Linguistics Conference Paper presentation "‘Introducing Introducing NomadLingo: a Corpus of Translingual Spoken Interactions in European Digital Nomad Communities" - Birmingham 2025
Presentation at ISB 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism Paper presentation "Mobility, translanguaging and plurilingualism: the case of digital nomad communities in Europe" - San Sebastián, 2025
DILLE 2025 Paper presentation: ‘Caccia al Tesoro Plurilingue. Un’esperienza educativa attraverso la diversità linguistica e
l’intercomprensione’ - Tirana 2025
Presentation at ELF Communication Today Paper presentation "Nomad English" - Salerno 2025
Presentation at “Harmony in Diversity: Innovative Approaches to Language Variation and Change” paper Linguistic fluidity in the European digital nomad communities - Albuquerque, 2024
Presentation within the AILA 2024 Symposium English as a Medium of Instruction ‘Exploring linguistic fluidity in the European communities of digital nomads’ – Kuala Lumpur, 2024
Presentation at TALC 2024 ‘For students, by students: Active learning through corpora’ – Manchester Metropolitan University, 2024
Presentation at the conference Il dialogo tra le scienze linguistiche e le nuove tecnologie ‘Building open resources for the study of translingual communication: FLO data management’ – University of Bologna, 2024
Presentation at Colloque International Migrations ‘A sociolinguistic perspective on voluntary migration in Europe: the case of the digital nomads’ – University of Mons, 2024
Presentation at Medal Summer School ‘Fluid languages for fluid communities: a translanguaging approach to the study of digital nomads’ communication in Europe’ – University of Tartu, 2023
Presentation at Presentation at XIII Simposio Internacional de Investigación Joven en Traducción, Interpretación, Estudios Interculturales y Estudios de Asia Oriental ‘BLEU and BERTScore for automatic text evaluation: Comparing Applications for Revision Difficulty Estimation and Respeaking QA’ – 2023, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Presentation at The International Conference on Building Inclusive and Multilingual Societies: AVT, Media And Technology 'QA of intralingual respeaking:
preliminary investigations on BERTScore for automatic assessment' – 2023, University of Naples L’Orientale
Presentation at the 3rd Multiplier Event | UpSkills Project, CLARIN ERIC – 2023, University of Utrecht
PUBBLICATIONS
Tedesco, Novella; Bernardini, Silvia and Cervini, Cristiana, 2025. NomadLingo1.0 open. ILC-CNR for CLARIN-IT repository hosted at Institute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli", National Research Council, Pisa.
Tedesco, N. (2025). Where's your language at? [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15603903
Tedesco, N. Translanguaging in the era of digital nomadism: a sociolinguistic perspective on voluntary mobility in Europe. Discov glob soc 3, 50 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44282-025-00191-8.
Tedesco, Bernardini, Garcea, F. (2024). English as a lingua franca in academic publishing: Using round-trip translation to estimate linguistic revision difficulty. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 13(2), 307-335.
Tedesco, Novella (2024) Where's your language at? Extended pilot study. University of Bologna. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/7722.
DISSERTATIONS
‘Round-Trip Translation: A Method for Estimating Revision and Editing Difficulty of English as a Lingua Franca Academic Texts’, 2022. Thesis supervisor: Silvia Bernardini
‘An Investigation into SLA and EFL teaching: underlying ideologies and innovative practices’, 2019. Thesis supervisor: Antonio Fruttaldo
HONORS / AWARDS
European Union Erasmus + Programme Scholarship – 2019, University of Warwick
CIUTI Travel Scheme – 2024
MEMBERSHIPS / AFFILIATIONS
University of Bologna
International Lingusitic Association (https://www.ilaword.org/index.aspx )
COLITEC [https://centri.unibo.it/colitec/en]
ELINET (elinet.org)
