She is an Associate Professor of Language and Translation – Spanish Language at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. She is currently conducting research on the translation of Ernesto Sábato’s essays and his contribution to the controversial debate on the Argentine linguistic question, namely the existence of an "Argentine language," which is reflected in the ideological and literary framework of the Latin American country. She has devoted her attention to the "language of exile" in Cristina Peri Rossi and Alfonsina Storni. She has also focused on the migration phenomenon in the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and its implications in terms of linguistic coexistence and multiculturalism. She is a member of the editorial board of the Polispanica series (Guida Editori) and of the Comparative Area Studies Center (Asafal), and is a Latin American Research Analyst for Emerics (Seoul, South Korea).

Marco Bagli is a fixed-term researcher (RtdB) in English cognitive linguistics at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. His research explores the relationship between mind, culture, and language from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. He focuses in particular on the linguistic encoding of sensory perception—especially taste—and investigates cognitive mechanisms such as conceptual metaphor, framing, and salience. He is the author of the monograph Tastes We Live By (Mouton de Gruyter), which was awarded the AIA Junior Book Prize in 2022. He has also published on discourse markers, interjections, and their grammaticalization in Early Modern English. At the University for Foreigners of Perugia, he is currently focusing on the role of English as a Lingua Franca in the global world, with particular attention to multilingualism and translanguaging, especially in the context of migratory processes.

Valentina Gasbarra graduated in Glottology in 2003 at the University of Rome “Sapienza” and obtained her PhD in Historical Linguistics and the History of the Italian Language at the same university in 2007. She has collaborated on various national projects (PRIN) as a research fellow and is currently an associate professor at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. Her research mainly focuses on ancient Indo-European languages (in particular, Greek of the 2nd and 1st millennia BC) from a diachronic perspective. Areas of investigation: phonetics and phonology, lexicon and etymology, nominal morphology and composition. She has dedicated a monographic work to language contact and interference phenomena between Mycenaean and languages of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Since May 2022, she has served as Didactics Delegate at the LILAIM Department; since June 2024, she has been the Rector’s Delegate for “Internships and Job Placement.”

Roberto Vetrugno (1975) studied Modern Literature at the University of Pavia and was a student at Collegio Borromeo. He obtained his Ph.D. in Italian Linguistics and Stylistics at the University of Bologna, with a thesis dedicated to the language of the autograph letters of Baldassarre Castiglione. He has worked as a research fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Pavia, in 2013 as a visiting professor at the University of Tripoli, and later as a researcher at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).

His main research activity concerns Renaissance correspondences and courtly language: together with others, he edited the edition of Castiglione’s epistolary (Turin, Einaudi 2016), to which he has devoted several contributions (Baldassar Castiglione, in Autografi dei letterati italiani, Rome 2009; The Language of Baldassar Castiglione as Epistolographer, Novara 2010; more recently, Castiglione in Milan, in Renaissance in Transit in Milan (1450-1525), Milan, University of Milan, 2021; The Archives of Castiglione, Rome, Viella, 2023; Courtly Lexicon. Glossary of the Letters of Baldassarre Castiglione, Bologna, I libri di Emil, 2024).

He has delved into the linguistic aspects of the letters of Isabella d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia, Vittoria Colonna and other noblewomen of the sixteenth century, and has collected his research in the volume "Prègola la non me voglia dementichare". Linguistic studies on the letters of Renaissance women, Milan, Franco Angeli 2025. Since 2016, he has engaged in research dedicated to the advanced levels of learning Italian as a second language, also from a diachronic perspective. Since 2019, as the rector’s delegate for the university’s documentary and library heritage, he has promoted a project to transcribe, analyze, and digitize the university’s historical archive, illustrated in the recent Treccani volume dedicated to the university’s history (Profiles of Learners and Italian L2 in the Historical Archive of the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in The University for Foreigners of Perugia. The history of a university open to the world, edited by Salvatore Cingari, Valerio De Cesaris, Gabriele Rigano, Roberto Vetrugno, Rome, Treccani, 2024, pp. 441-460). Since 2019 he has been Rector’s Delegate for the enhancement of the university’s documentary, bibliographic and artistic heritage.

Since September 2022, he has been president of the three-year degree course in Letters "Italian Language and Culture in the Digital World" and has founded DigitaLab, a meeting place for the presentation and implementation of research dedicated to digital culture.