Staff profile

I have been working as a Tutor in Italian Language at the Centre for Foreign Language Study (CFLS) since 2022, but I also taught both Italian Language and Translation Studies in MLaC from 2020 to 2023, where I contributed seminars and lectures to the B.A. in Modern Languages and the M.A. in Translation Studies.

I am currently full-time Assistant (Teaching) in Italian Language in the School of Languages, Cultures and Film at the University of Liverpool, where I teach language for the degree programmes with Italian at all levels. I am also part-time Associate Lecturer in Italian at Birkbeck, University of London, where I have been teaching since 2023.

Prior to joining Liverpool, I was Teaching Fellow in Italian at the University of Sheffield and Associate Lecturer in Italian at both Newcastle and Northumbria University.

Current Research Topic

My research is funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council's Northern Bridge scholarship and falls within the field of Translation Process Studies. My current project explores the cognitive-behavioural processes behind the comprehension and translation of figurative language, with a focus on different metaphor categories, in the English-Italian language pair. My methodological approach involves eye-tracking, key-logging, retrospective interviews and questionnaires, and combines both qualitative and quantitative data.

Grants and Awards

2022: Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

2021: Northern Bridge Large Grant for conducting research and data collection in Italy.

2020: Northern Bridge Placement Scheme - six-month placement as Admin Support and Research Assistant at the Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo of the University of Bologna.

2019: Northern Bridge Small Grant

2019: Northern Bridge Large Grant for a visiting period at Kent State University, Ohio (US).

2018: AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship.

2017: LANSCO Award (top five second-year M.A. students out of 150).

2014: Best Third-Year Student (top one third-year B.A. student out of 60).