Research Areas
- Italian linguistics (structures and varieties of the language from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives; Italian abroad; digital and public writing; history of the discipline and language policies in Italy)
- Theoretical and descriptive linguistics, language acquisition, bilingualism, corpus linguistics
- Educational linguistics (methods, techniques and technologies for language education; educational policies; cultural mediation; assessment and evaluation of language skills)
- Italian literature (the tradition of the classics from the origins to the contemporary age; literature and territory; gender perspectives; integration and interculturality; multimedia storytelling; literary criticism and literary theory)
- Philology of Italian literature (critical editions and scientific commentary; study of the manuscript and printed tradition; interpretation of literary texts; studies on the texts and works of the Tre Corone)
- Foreign literatures and translation (theory and practice of literary translation; theories of interpretation; history of the circulation of translated texts) Italian and international art (cultural heritage and continuities between Ancient and Modern; history of criticism; interplay between ‘local’ and ‘global’; postcolonial perspectives; studies on museums and curatorship)
- Cinema and audiovisual media, analog and digital (visual cultures in cinema, post-cinema, television, radio, web, photography, and interactive playful forms, including video games and 3D)