Higher Education
PhD in Discourse Analysis - Translation Studies (completed with minor revisions)
Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry (CMII), University College London, UK
Title of thesis: The Stereotype of Italianness in the Rhetoric of Matteo Renzi: A multimodal analysis of his talks delivered in English
Postgraduate Course in English>Italian Literary Translation
University Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
Degree in Modern Languages (English-French)
Faculty of Humanities, University of Bologna, Italy
Teaching Experience
November 2023 to date - English for Journalism - Master in Journalism - University of Bologna
October 2023 - Visiting Professor - Sciences Po Bordeaux, France - Course on populist communication
February 2022 to date - Adjunct Professor of English for Journalism - Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy – Two-year Master course in Media, Corporate and Public Communication
January 2022 to date - Adjunct Professor of English - Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, Italy – Two-year Master course in Information, Cultures and Media Organization
October 2021 to date - Adjunct Professor of English Linguistics - Department of Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy – Two-year Master course in Language, Society and Communication
March 2021 to date - Tutorship in English Linguistics - Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy
September 2020-Feb 2021 - Adjunct Professor of English
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy – Campus of Mantua
March-September 2021 - Tutor in Linguistics
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy
September 2020-February 2021 - Adjunct Professor of English
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy – Campus of Mantua
25 November 2020 - Seminar on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, MA in Gender, Society and Representation, University College London, UK
20 November 2019 - Seminar on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, MA in Gender, Society and Representation, University College London, UK
28 June 2018 - Seminar on Intercultural Communication in Business
ITS Maker Foundation (Institute for Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanics and Packaging), Bologna, Italy
7 June 2018 - Seminar of Critical Discourse Analysis on Stereotyping and Political Discourse
WeTell Summer School, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy
2013-2014 - Translation Tutor and Lecturer
Diploma in Translation (IoLET) preparatory course by Williams Language Solutions (endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Linguists), English into Italian
Research
June 2024 to date - Post-Doc Researcher - Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati - University Ca' Foscari (Venice, Italy)
March 2024 to date - Voice of Supporters - European Elections 2024: emotions in the comments of the supporters of Italian right-wing populist parties on social media
Description: The project is developed across Europe and explores what emotions populist party voters express when communicating on line.
January-July 2023 - Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship - Experiments in Democracy. Refugee policy and innovation in democratic praxis and discourse - Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento Culture, Politica e Società
January-April 2022 - Post-Doctoral Research Consultant - STRIVE Project - Sustainable Translations to Reduce Inequalities in Vaccine hEsitancy - Traduzioni sostenibili per ridurre diseguaglianze ed esitazioni nella campagna vaccinale - https://sites.google.com/view/strivesprojit/home?authuser=0
February 2020 to date - New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication
Media Ecology Journal, University of Toronto
Member of the Editorial Board
February 2020-2023 - Italian Pride – The Heartland in the Discourse of Matteo Salvini and the Northern League, A Multimodal Approach
Description: The study foregrounds Matteo Salvini’s stance towards nationalism by analysing the visual and verbal resources that he most frequently uses during rallies and on social media. It will develop to include other examples of right-wing populist propaganda.
September 2019-2023 - Voice of Supporters - European Elections 2019: the comments of the supporters of Italian right-wing populist parties on social media
Description: The project is developed across Europe and aims explores what motivates people to vote for populist parties and whether voter motivations are shared across contexts and European countries.
2020 - Appointed Independent Subject Expert in English
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy
April 2018-2020 - WeTell Alma Idea 2017 Scientific Committee
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy
Description: designing and testing new teaching methods to promote performative storytelling as a tool to face the challenges of societal change.
2013-2017 - Appointed Independent Subject Expert in English Literature
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy
Publications
Monographs
Reggi, V &. Combei, C.R., (2024). Appraisal, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in Political Discourse: A Multimodal, Multi-method Approach. Routledge.
DOI: 10.4324/9781003268345
https://www.routledge.com/Appraisal-Sentiment-and-Emotion-Analysis-in-Political-Discourse-A-Multimodal/Combei-Reggi/p/book/9781032214207
Reggi, V (2023; con Koller et al). Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections. John Benjamins. (volume multi-autoriale; si veda anche cap. 7: “Long live our Captain!”: a multimodal analysis of the comments on Matteo Salvini’s tweets by his supporters. (pp. 140-161). ISBN 978 90 272 1388 4 / ISBN 978 90 272 4974 6 https://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.101
Reggi, V (2022; with Federici, F. M et al) COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign among Migrants in Rome and the Emilia-Romagna Region. Full report of STRIVE Project (British Academy,UCL and Unibo).
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4285/COVID-19-G7-vaccination-campaign-migrants-rome-emilia-romagna-Federico-Federici.pdf
Reggi, V (2019). The stereotype of Italianness in the rhetoric of Matteo Renzi: a multimodal analysis of his talks delivered in English. Tesi di Dottorato disponibile presso https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082399/
Chapters
Reggi, V &. Frenda, S. (2024)I rifugiati ucraini nei quotidiani italiani, francesi e inglesi. In Dagnes, J. and Demata, M.(eds)La solidarietà discreta: L’accoglienza dei rifugiati ucraini in Italia e in Europa, Roma, Donzelli Editore srl, (pp. 39-72).
Reggi, V (2023) Anger, Fear and Extreme Polarization in Italian Political Discourse: a multimodal study of the tweets by Matteo Salvini and his supporters during the European elections. In: The New Challenges of Populist Discourses in Romance Speaking Countries. (pp. 151-176). Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcj https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86057
Reggi, V (2023) The Nation and the People: An appraisal analysis of populist themes in Justin Trudeau’s speeches. In O. Palusci, Made in Canada: The Languages of The Media. (pp. 315-344). Tangram Edizioni.
Reggi, V (2023) Italian Pride: The People and The Nation in the Populist Propaganda of the Northern League, a Multimodal Study. Quaderni di Semantica, 9
Reggi, V (2020). Negotiating Identity in Self-Translation: Stereotyping and National Character in the Speeches in English of Italy's Ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. In A. Almanna & J. J. Martínez Sierra (eds.), Reframing Realities through Translation. (pp. 67-105). Oxford: Peter Lang. DOI: 10.3725/b13174
Articles
Reggi, V (in fase di peer-reviewing). Let’s Make Britain Great Again: A multimodal discourse analysis of Reform UK’s online communication. CADAAD Journal
Reggi, V (2025). ‘Patriots to Defend Our Identity from the Islamisation of Europe’: How Populist Leaders Normalise Polarisation, a Multimodal Discourse Analysis. Journal of Populism Studies, pp. 1-23.DOI: https://doi.org/10.55271/JPS000120 . https://jps.populismstudies.org/articles/patriots-to-defend-our-identity-from-the-islamisation-of-europe-how-populist-leaders-normalise-polarisation-a-multimodal-discourse-analysis
Reggi, V. (2023) Italian Pride: The People and The Nation in the Populist Propaganda of the Northern League, a Multimodal Study.Quaderni di Semantica,9.
Reggi, V (2019). Producing the Self and the Other: Stereotyping and Nationalism in the Rhetoric of Matteo Renzi. MediAzioni, 25 (2019, Special Issue).
Reggi, V (2019). Constructing and Deconstructing Stereotypes. Philology, 4, 405-418 (2018/2019). https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/plg/phil/2019/00000004/f0022018
Reggi, V (2019). (ed.) Discussion, Philology, Social Sciences, Social Innovation: The WeTell Project. Philology, 4, 387-435 (2018/2019). https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/plg/phil/2019/00000004/f0022018
Reggi, V (2019). The Myth of the Nation in Contemporary Italy: A Multimodal Analysis of Matteo Renzi’s Speeches in English. Quaderni di Semantica, 5, 459-482.
Reggi, V (1996). The Aesthetic of Walter Pater Between Empiricism and Hegel, in Bizzotto, E. and Marucci, F. (eds), Walter Pater (1839-1894), le forme della modernità, Venice: Cisalpino, pp. 205-214; proceedings of the Conference held at the University of Venice, December 1994.
Reggi, V (1995). Oscar Wilde and the New Hellenism, Irish Studies Review, No 11, pp. 36-38.
Reggi, V (1994). Wilde Talk in Monaco, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 6, pp. 4-6.
Reggi, V (1994). Oscar Wilde e il New Hellenism, Il lettore di provincia, XXV: 89, Ravenna: Longo, pp. 37-48.
Translations
Bagnoli, V. (2015). Orpheus in the Underworld 1999, in Singer, A. (ed), Trafika Europe: Essential New European Literature Vol. I, University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press.
Rangoni, F. (2006). Yemen, Bologna: Damiani.
Fabi, F. and Traversi, M. (eds) (2001) Impariamo la lingua con la matematica, Bologna: Comune di Bologna, CD/LEI.
Spivak, G. C. (1997). Una critica all’imperialismo: tre testi femminili, in Baccolini, R., Fortunati, V., Fabi, M.G. and Monticelli, R. (eds), Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie, Bologna: CLUEB, pp. 105-133.
Wharton, E. (1996). Xingu. In Bisutti De Riz, F. (ed), Edith Wharton, racconti di scrittori e artisti, Venezia: Supernova, pp. 59-88.
Blaylock, J. P. (1995). Homunculus, Milan: Bompiani (with Scatasta, G).
G. Bradbury, M. (1994). An Opening World: Ford Madox Ford ed il suo ambiente, in Fortunati, V. and Baccolini, R. (eds), Scrittura e sperimentazione in Ford Madox Ford, Firenze: Alinea, pp. 19-49.
Other publications
Reggi, V. (2015). The Genealogy of Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism. The Oscholars, http://oscholars-oscholars.com/may-i-say/
¾ (1998). Un’arte tutta per sé. I Martedì, Vol. 3, pp. 49-51.
¾ (1995). Walter Pater: conformista o innovatore? I Martedì, Vol. 5, pp. 15-16.
¾ (1995). Traduttore fai da te? I Martedì, Vol. 1, pp. 15-16
¾ (1994). Le città dell’utopia. I Martedì. Vol. 5, pp. 38-38.
¾ (1994). Yeats oggi: studi e ricerche. Irish Studies Review, Vol. 6, pp. 42-43
¾ (1994). Perduti in America. I Martedì, Vol. 3, pp. 21-22
¾ (1993). Parole allo specchio. I Martedì, Vol. 6, p. 43
¾ & Bagnoli, V. (2016). Offscapes: Beyond the Limits of Urban Landscape, online publication by Trafika Europe Books. https://trafikaeurope.org/product/offscapes/?c=cc3d3f1dd0cf .
¾ & Kirby, T. (1997). L’Irlanda esce anche culturalmente dall’impero. I Martedì, Vol. 2, pp. 17-19.
Conferences and Seminars
21-23 May 2025 ECPS Fourth Annual International Symposium Civilizational Populism: National and International Challenges. University of Warsaw (Poland)
10-12 July 2024 - Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) - Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
6-8 July 2023 - Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) -Università degli Studi di Bergamo - https://www.cadaad.info/panels/panel-9-voices-of-supporters
8-10 September 2021 - Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization: Ten Years after the Movements of the Squares, Freie Universität Berlin
7-9 September 2020 - 24th DiscourseNet Conference, Discourse and Communication as Propaganda
Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium
15 July 2020 - online workshop Translation: National Identity, Ideology and Narrativity
Faculty of Education, Misan University, Amarah, Iraq
6-8 June 2019 - 23rd DiscourseNet Conference “Discourse, power and mind. Between reason and emotion”
University of Bergamo, Italy
17-19 May 2018 - AIA Seminar “On the move: sites of change, states of insecurity”
University of Macerata, Italy
8 May 2018 - IAS Talking Point: Not Just the News - Reflections on the impact of journalistic style in online news articles about terrorist events abroad
Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, UK - Respondent to Dr Ashley Riggs
6-8 July 2022 - CADAAD conference
University of Bergamo, Italy
6-8 Sept 2018 - Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics: Insights from Superdiversity, Complexity and Multimodality
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
12-14 July 2017 - International Conference “Moving texts: mediations and transculturations”
University of Aveiro, Portugal
