Elisa Mattiello is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics (University of Pisa). She holds a Ph.D. in English Linguistics and a Degree (cum laude) in Modern Languages from the same University, where she teaches undergraduate courses of ESP. In 2014, she was Visiting Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (University of Vienna, Austria), and in 2016 she was awarded the “Associazione Italiana di Anglistica” Book Prize for her monograph Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena (2013, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter).
Her research focuses on English word-formation and lexicology, with particular attention to neology and the creative mechanisms that are used to coin new words in English. Recently, her research has expanded in the direction of transitional morphology, with the publication of various papers on blends, splinters, combining forms, and affixoids.
She has over 70 publications and has published extensively in leading journals, including Linguistics, Lingua, Languages in Contrast, Language & Communication, International Journal of Language Studies, SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Neologica, Lexis, Discourse, Context & Media, ESP Across Cultures, Lingue e Linguaggi, and Italian Journal of Linguistics. She authored the monographs An Introduction to English Slang (Polimetrica, 2008), Extra-grammatical Morphology in English (De Gruyter, 2013), Analogy in Word-formation (De Gruyter, 2017), Linguistic Innovation in the Covid-19 Pandemic (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), and Transitional Morphology: Combining Forms in Modern English (CUP, 2022).
From 2012 to 2014, she was member of the Editorial Board of the Project Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (John Benjamins). She serves as reviewer for numerous international journals and is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of English Linguistics, International Journal of Language and Linguistics, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing.