She is an associate professor in Spanish Language and Translation 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, that is, the existence of an “Argentine language” reflected in the ideological and literary framework of the Latin American country. She has focused her attention on the “language of exile” in Cristina Peri Rossi and Alfonsina Storni. She has also concentrated on the phenomenon of migration 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 the Center for Comparative Area Studies (Asafal), and serves as Latin American Research Analyst for Emerics (Seoul, South Korea).

Sandra Covino has been a full professor since 2011 in the field of L-FIL-LET/12 (Italian Linguistics). At her institutional location, she coordinated the PhD program in "Language Sciences" and then the "Linguistic and Philological Sciences" area 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 research projects of national and international significance and is currently 1) head of the University for Foreigners of Perugia Unit in the PRIN 2022 project (call of February 2nd) "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-director, with M. Loporcaro and F. Franciullo, of the project "Gesamtausgabe der linguistischen Schriften Clemente Merlos," funded by the Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der Universität Zürich 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 locations 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 Intersocietal Coordination for the History of Linguistic and Semiotic Thought (CISPELS).

From 2013 to 2022, she was responsible for Italian in the Perugia branch 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 "Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani" and the "Società filologica romana," as well as the Italian Language Observatory at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., and the Academic Scientific Council of the ICoN Consortium.

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