Director of the University Language Centre (CLA), Bologna, until December 31, 2024.
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna
New Academic Discipline
10/SPAN-01 – Spanish and Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
SPAN-01/C – Spanish Language, Translation, and Linguistics
National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor, 2013 session.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3735-6468 [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3735-6468]
Scopus Author ID: 56513586200
Professional Profiles:
- Biblioteca Nacional de España
- Google Scholar
- IdRef (SUDoc)
- ORCID
- ResearcherID
- Scopus
- ISNI
- Library of Congress
- VIAF
Registered Expert:
- Member of the ministerial REPRISE register (Scientific Experts) for evaluating basic research projects and VQR.
- Product evaluator for the VQR 2015-2019.
Doctoral Research
- Doctoral Committee Member:
- LILEC-Unibo Ph.D. Programme in "Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion" (supervisor for 37th cycle thesis by Dr. Brandani).
- Margot Vanhaverbeke: “The Expression of Mitigation in Spanish-English Codeswitching Contexts. A Multifactorial and Multimethod Account”, University of Ghent, Belgium.
- A.M. Marini: “The Other Side Representations Bridging the US–Mexico Boundary”, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain (March 21, 2024).
- External Supervisor/Reviewer: Numerous doctoral theses in Spain.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- Corresponding Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), affiliated with the RAE.
- 2017: Beneficiary of the Basic Research Funding (FFABR-ANVUR), established under Law 232/2016.
- 2018-2019: DIVE-IN Excellence Project Award, LILEC Department.
- 2019: Teaching Buyout Award (LILEC Excellence Project).
- 2019: K-16 Faculty Conference Travel Stipend Award by AATSP (USA).
- 2019: Honorary Member of Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, USA), San Diego.
- Erasmus+ Grants: University of Alcalá de Henares (2018), University of Barcelona (2019).
- 2019: Invited to the XVI Congress of ASALE (Association of Spanish Language Academies), organized by the RAE and chaired by the King of Spain, Seville.
- 2021-2022: DIVE-IN Excellence Project Award, LILEC Department.
- 2022: Erasmus+ Grant, University of Alcalá de Henares.
- 2023: “Gerardo Piña Rosales” Award, presented on June 3 at the 50th Anniversary of ANLE, Instituto Cervantes, New York.
Short Bio
Silvia Betti is the author of numerous publications on the sociolinguistic aspects of Spanish in the United States, the phenomenon of Spanglish, youth language and SMS, new technologies applied to teaching Spanish as a foreign language, and non-verbal communication. She has delivered conferences, courses, and seminars at various universities in Italy, Europe (Valencia, Alcalá; Liberec -Czech Republic-; Ghent and Brussels -Belgium-, Barcelona -UB-, Málaga, etc.), Latin America (Costa Rica and Mexico), and the United States (San Antonio, New York City, Denver, Harvard, Miami-FIU, Chicago, Washington DC, among others).
She is listed as a researcher and contributor at the Cervantes Observatory of Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures at Harvard University (USA):
http://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/es/contenido/investigadores-colaboradores-research-contributors .
Key Roles:
- Corresponding Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), where she served as a member of the Sociolinguistic Study Commission of Spanish in the United States until 2024.
- Editor-in-Chief of Glosas, the journal of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language: https://glosas.anle.us/ .
- Director of the editorial series “Cruces y bordes: la voz de la otredad. El inglés y el español en contacto en los Estados Unidos”, Aracne, Rome:
https://www.aracneeditrice.eu/it/collana/cruces-y-bordes-la-voz-de-la-otredad-el-ingles-y-el-espanol-en-contacto-en-los-estados-unidos.html .
- Associate Editor of the Boletín de la ANLE.
- Editorial Board Member of RANLE (Journal of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language).
