Vincenzo Amendolara

Education

2023: PhD (ongoing): Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion, University of Bologna, Italy.

2022: Master's Degree (Laurea Magistrale) with Highest Honors (110/110 cum laude) in Language, Society and Communication (LM-38), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy.

2018: Bachelor's Degree (Laurea Triennale) with Highest Honors (110/110 cum laude) in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation (L-12), University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy.

Education Abroad

2025-2026: Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin

Courses:

• Uses and effects of social media (Mediennutzung und -wirkung sozialer Medien; LV-Nr. 28711), Lecturer: Merja Mahrt;
• Web scraping with Python for the humanities (Webscraping mit Python für die Geisteswissenschaften; LV-Nr. 17560), Lecturer: Lisa Poggel;

2003-2004: Windeck-Gymnasium (Gymnasium), Bühl (Baden-Württemberg), Germany.

1999-2003: Aloys-Schreiber-Schule (Grundschule), Bühl (Baden-Württemberg), Germany.

Short Bio

Vincenzo Amendolara graduated with honors in Language, Society, and Communication from the University of Bologna – Alma MaterStudiorum, where he also won the LANSCO Award for deserving students for two consecutive years.

His master's dissertation, whose results were later presented at the Europhras 2023 conference at the University of Milan (May 2023), focused on the contrastive study of phrasemes. On June 13, 2023, he was also awarded the Premio America Giovani (America Youth Award) for deserving young graduates of Italian universities at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome.

He is currently Subject Expert (cultore della materia) for the international MA in Language, Society and Communication, pursuing his Ph.D. in Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion, where he focuses on the critical and linguistic analysis of climate crisis and social media, from a contrastive perspective (German-English-Italian), according to the theoretical framework of ecolinguistics, and with a corpus-assisted approach. His analysis focuses on the comparison between how the climate crisis is conceptualized in the comment sections of TikTok and YouTube, and the stances commenters take toward the climate topic. Data was gathered through the platforms' web APIs using the Python programming language and a hashtag-based data fetching method. The data is organized into respective corpora and subcorpora covering the period from 2022 to 2025. The comments are then annotated using MAXQDA software, enabling quantitative and qualitative thematic cluster analyses. Linguistic patterns (such as trigrams and keywords) are analyzed collectively using the corpus management tool Sketch Engine.

He is also a Cross Linguistic Analyst in the H4rmony Project [https://theh4rmonyproject.org/]], which aims to integrate eco-awareness into AI systems. Additionally, he is a researcher for the PRIN (Research Projects of Relevant National Interest) Minori in movimento: per una cartografia di migrazioni forzate dal nazismo e delle loro testimonianze [https://prinminorsonthemove.wordpress.com/], georeferencing oral history with chrono-topological data.

Research Activity

• 2026 (ongoing): Fragments of Memory: Reconstructing the Past and Present of World War II [https://www.universitaprimolevi.it/prodotto/benito-mussolini-ascesa-e-caduta-di-un-dittatore/] (Frammenti di memoria: ricostruire passato e presente del II conflitto mondiale), Università Primo Levi, Bologna;
• 2025 (ongoing): Cross Linguistic Analyst (German) for The H4rmony project [https://theh4rmonyproject.org/] in collaboration with the University of Gloucestershire, dedicated to integrating ecological awareness into AI systems, developed with the guidance of Prof. Arran Stibbe;
• 2025 (ongoing): PRIN (Projects of great national interest - Progetto di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) “Minors on the move: Mapping forced migration from Nazism and its testimonies [https://prinminorsonthemove.wordpress.com/] ” (https://prinminorsonthemove.wordpress.com/) - Principal Investigator: Simona Leonardi, University of Genova; Local Responsible for Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna: Prof.ssa Eva Maria Cristina Thüne;
• 2025: "Journeys Among the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the World" ("Viaggi tra le lingue, letterature e culture del mondo"). Collaboration Project [https://www.universitaprimolevi.it/prodotto/pensare-il-mondo-attraverso-le-lingue-letterature-e-culture-straniere/] between the LILEC Department at the University of Bologna (UniBo) and the Primo Levi University of Bologna (UPL).
• 2025 (ongoing): "Thinking the World through Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures" [https://www.universitaprimolevi.it/prodotto/viaggi-tra-le-lingue-letterature-e-culture-del-mondo-progetto-unibo/] ("Pensare il Mondo attraverso le Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere"). Collaboration Project between the LILEC Department at the University of Bologna (UniBo) and the Primo Levi University of Bologna (UPL).
• 2023 (March-July): Project - Students' academic writing. Analysis of the reading-writing relationship in the perspective of academic literacy and implications for language pedagogy (La scrittura accademica degli studenti. Analisi della relazione lettura-scrittura nella prospettiva della academic literacy e implicazioni glottodidattiche - Responsible: Dr. Claudia Borghetti, Scientific Referee: Prof. Rosa Pugliese)
• 2022-2023 (October 2022-January 2023): FAST-LISA PROJECT. FIGHTING HATE SPEECH THROUGH A LEGAL, ICT AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH-CERV-2021-EQUAL (Scientific Director: Prof. Francesca Curi, Scientific Director for German Language: Prof. Maria Antoniette Rieger)

Software and IT Skills & Knowledge

• Python
• HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap
• Web API
• Web Scraping
• AI for didactic Uses
• SketchEngine
• MAXQDA
• Folker
• ELAN
• AntConc
  
• BootCat

Publications

• Amendolara, V. (2026). African landscapes and perspectives on the climate crisis: Contrastive and ecolinguistic analysis of framings online. In P. Striedl, C. Lucchetti, S. Racca, & A. Tikhonov (Eds.), Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscapes in language, society and cognition [publication date: 2026]. De Gruyter Brill;
• Amendolara, V., & Rieger, M. (2026). Various shades of green: Unternehmensnamen als Werbeträger für nachhaltige Safari-Reisen. Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences – Onomastica Uralica;
• Amendolara, V. (2025). Arran Stibbe, Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021, 260 pp., ISBN 9780367855512. DIVE-IN – An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion, 5(1), 225–228. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2785-3233/22284.
• Amendolara, V. (2027). Hostile Climate in a Heated Debate: A Contrastive Ecolinguistic Analysis of Climate Discourse in YouTube Shorts. (under review)
• Amendolara, V. (2027). Long story (in) short(s): How climate discourse is multimodally construed in YouTube Shorts. DIS-4Change Biennial International Conference 2025 Publications (under review);
  
• Amendolara, V. (2026). Resistenza e coesistenza in ecolinguistica: Analisi critica del discorso online di ambiente e sostenibilità socioculturale. Quaderni del Dottorato, Forme e pratiche di resistenza e coesistenza in letteratura, linguistica e traduzione - Dipartimento LILEC (accepted);
  
• Amendolara, V. (2026). YouTube shorts - Spazi e percorsi digitali del discorso climatico: Un’analisi ecolinguistica assistita da corpora. Spazi, luoghi, percorsi. Nuove prospettive linguistiche e letterarie nella germanistica italiana. Di/segni - Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature, Culture e Mediazioni Università degli Studi di Milano (accepted)

Awards

• Selected for the Summer School (2025) - Open Innovation Management for Sustainable Transition (30 students selected) promoted by the Pillar Training - TTIP Program - ECOSISTER Project, PNRR Mission 4, held at Settegalli, Santa Sofia (FC) from June 30 to July 4, 2025.
• Selected for the DAAD Conference (30 students selected across Italy) at the University of Genoa (2024): DaF-Nachwuchstreffen an der Università di Genova: „Verwurzelt in der Zukunft?“ Italien als Ehrengast auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024.
• Premio America Giovani for University Talent (2023): National recognition for deserving young graduates from Italian universities, Rome, Chamber of Deputies.
• LANSCO Award 2019/20 (2020): Study award for deserving students enrolled in the second year of the Master's Degree course in Language, Society and Communication, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
• LANSCO Award 2018/19 (2019): Study award for deserving students enrolled in the first year of the Master's Degree course in Language, Society and Communication, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
  

Presentations at conferences, held courses, workshops and seminars

• Vincenzo Amendolara & Lorenzo Petrucci: Crisscrossing across Onlife Landscapes: A contrastve analysis of semiotic and discursive patterns of writngs on Bologna city walls and comments on social media platform. ILANSCO2026 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society, and Cognition Emerging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict (16-18/09/2026). Prague, Czech Republic
• Vincenzo Amendolara & Marie Rieger: From Winnetou to Winnetouch. The role of names in the deconstruction of exotifying adventure novels. The Seventh International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming”, Names and Humour, ICONN7 (9-11/09/2026), Baia Mare, Romania.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Traces and fragments of memory: The autobiographical interviews of the FEGB as (re-)construction and network of recollection, Graduate Conference, University of Bologna (19/06/2026);
• Vincenzo Amendolara & Chiara Arnone & Rita Luppi: Memory, testimony and artistic representation: reflections on a corpus of Stolpersteine. “RISCOPRIRE, RIELABORARE, SOVVERTIRE IL MONDO" Università di Bologna (4-5/06/2026), Bologna.
• Vincenzo Amendolara & Chiara Arnone: Language Learning, Emotions, and Identity Construction: The Case of the Kindertransportees and the English Language. 8th LRI Workshop for Early-Career Researchers (11-12/06/2026), Merano, Italy.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Memory Framing in the FEGB: A contrastive analysis on Francis Deutsch's Interviews with Eva Thüne. PRIN 2022 Conference "Minors on the move: Mapping forced migration from Nazism and its testimonies", Università degli Studi di Napoli (28-29/05/2026), Naples, Italy.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: A Discursive Network Analysis of Collocations in Climate-Related YouTube Shorts Comment Sections.The sixth Postgraduate Symposium on Linguacultural Spaces: Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Discourse and Society, Department of Culture Studies, School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University (21-22/05/2026), online.
• Vincenzo Amendolara, Python Crash Crash Course, Workshop held as part of the course English Linguistics I (Sabrina Fusari), University of Bologna (22/04/2026), Bologna;
• Vincenzo Amendolara, Positioning and Framing: Thematic cluster and linguistic pattern analysis with quantitative and qualitative approaches – NLP tools, Seminar held as part of the course English Linguistics I (Sabrina Fusari), University of Bologna (22/04/2026), Bologna;
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Identifying and analyzing thematic clusters (FEGB), Seminar held for the Doctoral Students of the University of Parma (16/04/2026), Parma, Italy.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Networking while communicating the climate crisis: Thematic clusters and linguistic patterns in YT-Shorts comment sections. DN33 - Discourse, Sustainability, and Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate and Communication (26-27/03/2026), UNINT, Rome.
• Vincenzo Amendolara & Chiara Arnone: Sprachen als identitäres Spiegelbild: Narrative Interviews als Instrument zur Erforschung der Identitätsbildung und des Mehrsprachigkeitserlebens. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK 2026) - Universität Hildesheim Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur (26-27/03/2026), Hildesheim.
• Vincenzo Amendolara & Lena Rebhan: Polarisierte Diskurse im digitalen Raum. Potenziale von (Diskurs-)Netzwerkanalysen für die Linguistik. Und vice versa. Netzwerke, Kommunikation und Kultur in Online- und Offline-Welten, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (19-20/03/2026), Mannheim.
• Vincenzo Amendolara & Rita Luppi: Lingua, cultura e identità narrativa: trauma e resilienza nel corpus Fuga ed emigrazione in Gran Bretagna (FEGB) in Pensare il mondo attraverso le lingue, letterature e culture straniere, Lesson for the University Primo Levi in Bologna (04/03/2026).
• Vincenzo Amendolara: This is my community: social and environmental implications in the “onlife” era. Dis-4Change Transformative Research Group (27/11/2025), Dis-4Change Meeting.
• Vincenzo Amendolara (seminar): Brainrot while doomscrolling: Legal, ethical and technical implications of gathering and analyzing data on social media. (23/10/2025), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna;
  
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Trains as a space of escape, threat, and memory (21/10/2025). PRIN 2022 Project: Minors on the Move: Mapping Forced Migration from Nazism and its Testimonies, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna;
• Vincenzo Amendolara, Chiara Arnone, Rita Luppi: Introducing the PRIN 2022 Project: Minors on the Move: Mapping Forced Migration from Nazism and its Testimonies (21/10/2025) Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna;
• Member of the Organizing Committee for the First Conference of the PRIN 2022 Project: Minors on the Move: Mapping Forced Migration from Nazism and its Testimonies (21-22/10/2025) Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna;
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Appraisal and framing in the climate crisis discourse: Comment trend analyses on YouTube and TikTok. AIA 32: HUMAN, HUMANE, HUMANITIES. VOICES FROM THE ANGLOSPHERE (13/09/2025), University of Turin, Italy.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: POV: Econarratives in short(s): Multimodal and contrastive ecolinguistic pattern analyses on social media. DIS-4Change Biennial International Conference 2025: Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action: Narratives, Discursive Practices, and Transdisciplinary Approaches (25/06/2025), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Climate Crisis in the Time of ‘Brain rot’: Contrastive Framing Analysis of TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Eco-Narratives. Sapienza Graduate Forum 2025, 38th Cycle of the SELLT PhD Programme Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies: States of [Perma]Crisis Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Explorations (10/06/2025), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

• Vincenzo Amendolara: Social Media as Linguacultural Spaces of Inclusion, Extension, and Identification: An Ecolinguistic Analysis of the Climate Crisis as a Social Phenomenon. Postgraduate Symposium on Linguacultural Spaces: Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Discourse and Society (14/05/2025), University of Glasgow.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Breaking the barriers of the #climateCrisis: Analyzing eco-narrative clusters on TikTok and Instagram. AIA Seminar “Breaking Barriers: Empowering Interactions in Language, Literature, and Culture” (14/05/2025), Aldo Moro University of Bari.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Biografie Linguistiche, Lezione frontale all'interno del corso LILEC UNIBO e UPL: 'Viaggi tra le lingue, letterature e culture del mondo' (23/04/2025), Università Primo Levi di Bologna (UPL).
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Doomscrolling in der Klimakrise: Kontrastive und korpusgestützte Analyse von Öko-Narrativen auf sozialen Plattformen. GAL RESEARCH SCHOOL: Methodische Erweiterungen der Diskurslinguistik in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und Digitalität (26/03/2025), Presentazione in poster-session, Università di Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen).
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Presentazione Corso LILEC UNIBO e UPL: 'Viaggi tra le lingue, letterature e culture del mondo' (15/03/2025), Università Primo Levi di Bologna (UPL).
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Comunicare la crisi climatica tra eco-awareness ed eco-anxiety: analisi critico-contrastiva del linguaggio metaforico in rete. SPAZI, LUOGHI, PERCORSI: PROSPETTIVE DI RICERCA E CASI DI STUDIO NELLA GERMANISTICA ITALIANA (03/10/2024) (presentazione come guest speaker su invito), Università degli Studi di Milano.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: African landscapes and the climate crisis: Contrastive and ecolinguistic analysis of framings and appraisal patterns online. ILANSCO24 Conference – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society and Cognition (11/09/2024), Università di Zurigo.
• MARIE RIEGER & VINCENZO AMENDOLARA: Naming sustainability: real indicator or greenwashing? A follow-up study on Tanzania safari websites. ICOS 2024 - The 28th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (21/08/2024), Università di Helsinki.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Corpus Linguistics and Prompt Engineering: Your hidden and powerful everyday language learning assistants (Presentazione come speaker su invito della docente Giulia Scarpa, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna - all’interno del corso Academic English Skills presso due classi AcES 292 e AcES 293, 17/06/2024), Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Resistenza e coesistenza in ecolinguistica: Analisi critica del discorso online di ambiente e sostenibilità socioculturale. Graduate Conference LILEC (06/06/2024), Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.
• Vincenzo Amendolara (2024): Eco-awareness o ecophobia?! Analisi critico-contrastiva del discorso online di ambiente e crisi climatica. Convegno dottorale PhD CLUB: Il dialogo tra le scienze linguistiche e le nuove tecnologie (04/06/2024), Presentazione in poster-session, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.
• Vincenzo Amendolara: Ich denk‘ an was, was du nicht meinst… Analyse von phraseologischen Interpretationsverfahren italienischer DaF-StudentInnen. EUROPHRAS-2023-conference (31/05/2023), Università degli Studi di Milano.

Summer/Winter Schools e Workshop:

• Konversationsanalyse (Leitung: Arnulf Deppermann), Institut für Qualitative Forschung. 22. Januar 2026 - 23. Januar 2026.
• FOLKER-Schulung (Leitung: Evi Schedl), IDS Mannheim. 12.12.2025.
• DGNET-Methodenschule für soziale Netzwerkforschung (Einführung in die Netzwerkforschung + Extraktion von Daten aus Textdokumenten und ihre Analyse, jeweils 4 und 5 Einheiten à 90 Min). 06-08/10/2025.
• Open Innovation Management for a Sustainable Transition, Pillar Training – Programma TTIP – Progetto ECOSISTER, Settegalli, Santa Sofia (FC) (2025).
• GAL RESEARCH SCHOOL: Methodische Erweiterungen der Diskurslinguistik in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und Digitalität presso Università di Duisburg-Essen (2025).
• Climate Change Theories, Narrations and Discourse: Sharing Knowledges, Methods and Practices presso Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale (2024).