ACADEMIC POSITION:
a.y. 2023-24: Visiting scholar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Department of Romance Studies).
a.y. 2022-present: Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Humanities, University of Macerata. Project title: "Cultures for democracy, inclusion, and sustainability".
a.y. 2019/20-present: Adjunct professor of English Literature and Culture
Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna - Forlì campus).
a.y. 2022/23: Honorary fellow of English Literature (L-LIN/10)
University of Macerata.
a.y. 2021/22- a.y. 2022-23: Adjunct professor of Advanced English I and II
Department of Political Sciences ( University of Bologna - Forlì campus).
a.y. 2019/20- a.y. 2021/22: English Language Expert
University Language Center (University of Perugia).
EDUCATION:
2016-2019: Ph.D. in intercultural and gender studies, summa cum laude.
Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna - Forlì campus).
Dissertation title: Reading Things. Gender and Material Culture in Contemporary Indian Women's Writings in English (supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Baccolini).
January-June 2018: visiting Ph.D. fellow
Department of Comparative Literatures and Folklore Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Supervisors: Prof. Vinay Dharwadker and Prof. Ernesto Livorni.
2014: MA in Specialized Translation, summa cum laude
School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (University of Bologna - Forlì campus).
Dissertation title: “Due volti del racconto africano: Mia Couto e Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Analisi comparativa delle rispettive raccolte Estórias abensonhadas e Il n’y a pas de petite querelle e traduzione di una selezione di racconti estratti dalle due opere” (Supervisor: Prof. Danielle Londei, Co-supervisor: Prof. Anabela Ferreira).
2011: BA in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation, summa cum laude
School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (University of Bologna - Forlì campus).
Dissertation title: “All Boy di Lori Ostlund: proposta di traduzione di una delle Best American Short Stories 2010” (Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Baccolini).
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
8 March 2024, Boston (MA): 55th annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Tufts University. Panel: “Unveiling the Surplus. Contemporary Refugee Narratives.” Title of Presentation: “Embracing the (un)homely. Refugeedom as a regenerative experience of contamination in The Arrival”.
11 December 2023, Lisbon: Winter Doctoral Symposium (Nova Universidade de Lisboa). Title of Presentation: "'The marsh did not confine them but defined them'. An Ecocritical Analysis of Contemporary Anglophone Environmental Narratives" (with Ilenia Vittoria Casmiri, University of Ferrara).
26 May 2023, Ferrara: Conferenza internazionale dell'European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centers (ECHIC) su "Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing". Title of Presentation: "Ecological Resilience and Non-Anthropocentric Humanism. An Ecofeminist Reading of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide".
26 March 2023, Niagara Falls, NY: 54° Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association - University at Buffalo - roundtable "Women representing women." Title of Presentation:"Dis-ease and creativity in the diasporic city. A gendered analysis of two atypical transcultural novels."
24 March 2023, Niagara Falls, NY: 54° Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association - University at Buffalo - panel "YA that doesn't need to come of age." Title of Presentation: "Away from Innocence. Migration and Cultural Trauma in Khan's YA novel Zara Hossain is Here."
16 April 2021, Braga, Portugal: International conference "Transcultural Mobilities and Memories” - Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portogallo). Title of presentation: “LUGGAGE HEAVY WITH MEMORIES: THINGS AND GENDERED IDENTITY WITHIN THE DIASPORIC SPACE.”
24 March 2019, Washington, D.C.: Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association -University at Buffalo - roundtable "Water and/as Transcultural Space." Title of presentation: "LIQUID BORDERS, FLUID BODIES. THE RIVER AS 'MINDSCAPE' IN ARUNDHATI ROY'S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS."
22 March 2019, Washington, D.C.: Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association -University at Buffalo - panel "Infrastructural Texts, Textual Infrastructures." Title of presentation: "THE SHAME OF HUMAN WASTE IN UNTOUCHABLE. A SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO INDIAN SANITARY INFRASTRUCTURE."
29 June 2018, Barcelona: 9th International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies - Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain). Title of presentation: "NARRATING HOME: MEMORY, IMAGINATION AND DESIRE IN ANITA NAIR'S LADIES' COUPÉ".
12-15 April 2018, Pittsburgh, PA: Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association -University at Buffalo - panel "Room of One's Own: Writing Interiors." Title of presentation: "DIASPORIC THINGS: THE ANALYSIS OF JHUMPA LAHIRI’S ‘MRS SEN’S’ THROUGH A CORPUS STYLISTIC APPROACH".
1 December 2017, Bologna: Workshop "UNIBO è interculturalità" - University of Bologna- Title of presentation: "A NEW WORLD, DIFFERENT DIASPORAS. AN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE INDIAN MIGRATION".
25-27 October 2017, Bertinoro: International Conference “Literature, Translation, and Mediation by and for Children: Gender, Diversity and Stereotype”. MeTRa Center (Center of interdisciplinary studies on mediation and translation by and for children) - University of Bologna. Title of presentation: “GIRLHOOD AND MASCULINITY IN RAJDEEP PAULUS’ SWIMMING THROUGH CLOUDS: AN ATYPICAL ‘MASALA’ YOUNG ADULT NOVEL”.
30 June 2017, Barcelona: 8th International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies - Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain). Title of presentation: “STUCK IN THE HOME-LAND. INDIAN WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF DIASPORA: THE EXAMPLE OF JHUMPA LAHIRI’S 'MRS SEN’S'”.
22-24 June 2017, Olomouc: 21st International Colloquium of American Studies on “Place and Emplacement”- Palacký University - Olomouc (Czech Republic). Title of presentation: “BEYOND INDIVIDUAL SPACE: THE SYMBOLIC PLACE OF INDIAN WOMEN IN THE LAND OF DIASPORA”.
RESEARCH PERIODS ABROAD:
a.a. 2023/24: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
a.a. 2018/19: University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA)
a.a. 2010/11: University of Hull (UK)
UNIVERSITY TEACHING:
a.y. 2023/24: Adjunct professor of English Literature and Culture - Department of Humanities (University of Macerata) (15 hours)
a.y. 2021/22-ongoing: Adjunct professor of English Literature and Culture (module of the integrated course "Translation, Literature and Culture") - Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna, Forlì campus) (60 hours)
a.y. 2022/2023 e 2021/2022: Adjunct professor of Advanced English and Laboratory I - Department of political and international sciences (University of Bologna, Forlì campus). (80 hours)
a.y. 2021/22: Adjunct professor of Advanced English II - Department of political and international sciences (University of Bologna, Forlì campus). (80 hours)
a.y. 2020/21: English language instructor - Advanced English - University of Perugia (course open to the employees of the University of Perugia). (30 hours)
a.y. 2020/21: Adjunct professor of English Literature I (second language) - Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna, Forlì campus). (60 hours)
a.y. 2020/21 and 2019/20: Adjunct professor of English Culture and Literature - Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna, Forlì campus). (60 hours)
a.y. 2021/22; 2020/21; 2019/20: English Language Expert - University Language Center (University of Perugia). (530 hours a year)
a.y. 2019/20: Instructor at the seminar on Gender and Anglophone Literature - Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna, Forlì campus). (Course referent: Prof. Raffaella Baccolini, 10 hours)
a.y. 2018-19: Teaching tutor of English Liaison Interpreting I (first language) - Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna, Forlì campus). (20 hours)
a.y. 2009-10: Instructor of Italian language and culture - University of Modern Languages (Department of Italian Studies), University of Hull (UK). (20 hours)
FURTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2015-ongoing: Freelance translator in the following language combinations: English <> Italian and French >Italian. Fields of specialization: juridical, tourist, real estate.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS:
2022: two-year postdoctoal fellowship - Department of Humanities, University of Macerata.
2022: National qualification for English language teaching in secondary schools (AB25).
2020: Three-year Ph.D. scholarship - Department of Interpreting and Translation (University of Bologna, Forlì campus).
2019: Winner of the national examination for a position as English Language Expert (University of Perugia).
a.y. 2017/18: Visiting Ph.D. fellow - Department of Comparative Literatures and Folklore Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Supervisors: Prof. Vinay Dharwadker and Prof. Ernesto Livorni.
2017: Winner of the national examination for a position as English Language Teacher - Language School of the Italian Army (Perugia headquarter).
2015: Certificate for Teaching Italian as second and foreign language - (CLTA Certificate) - Italian Cultural Institute, London (UK).
a.y. 2009/10: 5-month scholarship - Erasmus program, University of Hull (UK).
FURTHER RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS:
Member of Almagender Integrated Research Team – University of Bologna.
Member of MITN (Migration, Identity and Translation Network), in partnership with Monash University and University of Warwick focused on migration, identity, and translation.
Member of the Modern Languages Association.
External reviewer for the international peer-reviewed journals Cogent Arts and Humanities (Taylor & Francis) and Humanities (MDPI).
