Sandra Covino has been a first-tier professor since 2011 in the SSD L-FIL-LET/12 (Italian Linguistics). At her current institution, she coordinated the PhD program in “Language Sciences” and then the “Linguistic and Philological Sciences” track of the Doctoral School (cycles XXV-XXVIII). She has also held various other institutional roles, including the directorship of the Department of Human and Social Sciences (2016-2017).

She has given lecture series and invited talks at many other universities in Italy and abroad (Malta, France, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Sweden, Austria, Algeria, Norway, Greece, Switzerland, where she was also a visiting scholar at the Romanisches Seminar in Zurich).

She has participated in nationally and internationally significant research projects and is currently: 1) head of the University for Foreigners of Perugia Unit in the PRIN 2022 (call of February 2) "Scholars at War Digital Library: an Innovative Environment for Advanced Document Management. Philology, Politics, Society, from the Franco-Prussian War (1870) to the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and Beyond" (acronym SWarD; CUP D53D23015490006; P.I. S. Rapisarda); 2) co-directs, with M. Loporcaro and F. Franciullo, the project "Gesamtausgabe der linguistischen Schriften Clemente Merlos", funded by the Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung at the University of Zurich and the Romanisches Seminar.

She has been an invited speaker at numerous scientific conferences and has organized several international conferences at the University for Foreigners of Perugia (or at other venues as a member of the scientific committee).

From 2016 to 2019, she was the representative of the Association for the History of the Italian Language (ASLI) in the Inter-Societal Coordination for the History of Linguistic and Semiotic Thought (CISPELS).

From 2013 to 2022, she was responsible for Italian in the Perugia hub of the Accademia dei Lincei project "I Lincei for a new didactics in schools: a national network".

She is a member of various scientific societies, including the "Center for Sicilian Philological and Linguistic Studies" and the "Roman Philological Society", as well as of the Italian Language Observatory at the Italian Embassy in Washington D.C. and the Scientific and Educational Council of the ICoN Consortium.

For information on her interests and scientific output, see CV and research areas.