Education
- 1994 – "Laurea" (MA) with cum laude distinction in Portuguese Language and Literature, University of Florence.
- 1998 - Ph.D. in Iberian Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bologna.
Academic Career
1998-99: Adjunct Professor in Portuguese Literature at the SSIT of the University of Trieste, in Portuguese Language and Literature at the University of Pavia, in Brazilian Literature at the University "Ca' Foscari" of Venice;
1999-2000: Adjunct Professor in Portuguese Language and Literature at the University of Pavia and in Brazilian Literature at the University "Ca' Foscari" of Venice.
2001-2004: Assistant Professor of Portuguese Language and Literature at the University of Bologna;
2004-05: Associate Professor of Portuguese Linguistics at the University of Bologna.
2005-2009: Member of the Academic Staff for the PhD program in "Iberistica" (Portuguese and Brazilian Literature) at the University of Bologna;
2010-2014 : Member of the Academic Staff for the PhD program in "Letterature Moderne, Comparate e Postcoloniali" (Area: Portuguese and Brazilian Literature) at the University of Bologna.
2014-2017 : Member of the Academic Staff for the PhD program in "Studi Letterari e Culturali" (Area: Portuguese and Lusophone Studies);
2017: Visiting Professor in International PhD Programme in Comparative Studies at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (“An introduction to Translation Studies”);
2018: National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Portuguese Linguistics
Academic duties
- 2015-18: Member of the Teacher-Student Parithetic Committee of the School of Foreign Languages, Literatures, Interpreting and Translations
- 2016-17: Member of the University Research Evaluation Committee (VRA) of the University of Bologna (area 10: Antiquities, Philology, Literary Studies, Art History);
- 2016-: Member of the FIBRA Foundation (Italian-Brazilian Cultural Foundation)
- 2019-21: Member of the Admission Committee for the Master’s Degree Program in Modern, Comparative and Postcolonial Literatures of the University of Bologna;
- 2019-21: Member of the Quality Assurance Committee for the Master’s Degree Program, in Modern, Comparative and Postcolonial Literatures of the University of Bologna;
- 2021-: Director of Second Cycle Degree Program in Modern, Comparative and Post-colonial Literatures of the University of Bologna.
