Valentina Vetri

Valentina Vetri is a translator and lecturer in English language and linguistics. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. As a translator, she has collaborated with the publishing houses Rusconi, Rubbettino, Gherardo Casini, and Cue Press, publishing Italian translations of English authors such as Oscar Wilde, G.K. Chesterton, Ford Madox Ford, and Laura Wade. She has published academic articles on contrastive linguistics, translation and pragmatics. Her research interests concern, in particular, the relationship between language and culture, applied to both translation and intercultural pragmatics; she also works on stylistics, particularly of theatrical texts. At the moment she is researching the language of manipulation in domestic violence and coercive control. Go to the Curriculum vitae