Educational institutions and qualifications
2005 Ph.D. in English Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Pisa
2001 Degree in Modern Languages, Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Pisa
2005 Summer Course, English Phonetics, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London (UK)
2002 Summer School, Formal and Functional Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf (DE)
2002 Course in German as a Foreign Language (A2), Language University Centre, Pisa
May 2023 Award of the Italian National Scientific Qualification at the level of Full Professor (ANGL-01/C-Lingua, traduzione e linguistica inglese)
Dec 2020 Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa (Italy)
Dec 2017 – 2020 Senior Researcher of English Language and Linguistics, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa
2015 – Nov 2017 Junior Researcher of English Language and Linguistics, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa and Naval Academy (Leghorn).
2015 Award of the Italian National Scientific Qualification at the level of Associate Professor (L-LIN/12 – English Language and Translation)
Dec 2015 – Nov 2020 Tenured Assistant Professor of Business English, Bachelor’s Degrees in Business Economics, Bank and Finance, Economics and Commerce, Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa
2012 – Nov 2015 Contract Lecturer of Business English, Bachelor’s Degrees in Business Economics, Bank and Finance, Economics and Commerce, Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa
2015 – 2018 Coordinator of English Language Courses, Naval Academy, Leghorn
2013 – 2020 Coordinator of BEC (Business English Certificate) Courses, Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa
2009 – 2015 Contract Lecturer of English Language, Master’s Degree in International Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Pisa
2011 – 2013 Tutor of “Contrastive Linguistics” students, Master in Specialised Translation, Consorzio ICoN (Italian Culture on the Net), Pisa
2011 – 2012 Contract Lecturer of English Linguistics, First-year module, Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, University of Pisa
2008 – 2009 Contract Lecturer of Legal English, Master’s Degree in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Pisa
2008 – 2009 Contract Lecturer of English Linguistics, Third-year module, Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, University of Pisa
2007 – 2008 Contract Lecturer of English Linguistics, Second-year module, Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, University of Pisa
2005 – 2008 Contract Lecturer of English Linguistics, Second-year module, Bachelor’s Degree in European Literatures for Publishing and Cultural Production, Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Pisa
Additional experiences
Feb 2022 Invited Speaker, lecture on “English Slang”, English Department, Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
2019 – 2020 Lectures on “Understatement and overstatement” (4 h), Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, University of Pisa
2017 – 2018 Lecture on “Hyperbole: Overstatement and understatement in English” (2 h), Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, University of Pisa
2017 – 2018 Lecture on “Morphology and morphopragmatics” (2 h), Master’s Degree in Linguistics and Translation, University of Pisa
2016 – 2017 Lecture on “Understatement and overstatement in English” (2 h), Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, University of Pisa
2015 – 2016 Module on “English Pragmatics and Figurative Language” (20 h), Master’s Degree in Linguistics and Translation, University of Pisa
2015 – 2016 Lecture on “Understatement: Definition and functions” (2 h), Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, University of Pisa
2013 – 2014 Workshop on “Academic Writing” (14 h), Master’s Degree in Economics, Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa
2013 Lecture on “Contrastive Linguistics”, Master in Specialised Translation, Consorzio ICoN (Italian Culture on the Net), Pisa
2008 – 2021 She has supervised 10 degree theses and co-supervised 10 degree theses at the University of Pisa
Ph.D. national and international experiences
2022 Workshop for Ph.D. students, “Transitional morphology and combining forms: The borderline between derivation and composition”, Ph.D. in Discipline linguistiche e letterature straniere, University of Pisa
2018 – 2020 Supervisor for Ph.D. Thesis, Francesca Bolognesi, “Anglicisms in the Italian Language of Entertainment”, XXXII Cycle, Ph.D. Course in Discipline Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere, University of Pisa
2019 External Examiner for Ph.D. Thesis, “Blend formation tendencies, from English to Arabic: A comparative study”, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle, UK
2018 Workshop for Ph.D. students, “Corpus-based methods for investigating morphological creativity in authentic English discourse: Challenges and opportunities”, Ph.D. in Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica, University of Pisa
2018 – present Member of the Ph.D. Course in Discipline Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa
Membership in committees and scientific organisations
2021 – present Member of the Research Committee of the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa
2020 – 2022 Member of the Area 10 Scientific Research Committee of the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa
2018 – 2024 Member of the International Affairs Committee of the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa
2018 – present Member of the Language Centre Committee, University of Pisa
2015 – 2017 Member of LADRILS Research Group (Language Acquisition and English Teaching)
2014 – present Member and Secretary of the CLAVIER Committee (Corpus and Language Variation in English Research), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, from 2020 University of Pisa
2013 – 2017 Member of UDRILS Research Group (Specialised Language and Discourse), Language University Centre, Pisa
2003 – present Member of AIA (Italian Association of English Studies) and ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English)
Editorial activities
2025 – present Member of the Editorial Board of Kufa Journal of Arts
2025 – present Member of the Editorial Board of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.ro (TAL.ro)
2021 – present Member of the Editorial Board of Springer Nature Humanities & Social Sciences
2020 – present Member of the OED Researchers Advisory Group
2018 – present Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of English Linguistics
2018 – present Member of the Editorial Board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing (area: Discourse, Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics)
Peer-reviewing activities
Oct 2025 Reviewer for Cambridge Elements Series. Cambridge University Press. Editor: Merja Kytö.
Jan 2025 Reviewer for Iperstoria. Testi Letterature Linguaggi [ISSN 2281-4582]. Verona: Università di Verona. Editors: Roberta Facchinetti, Anna De Biasio.
July 2024 Reviewer for Token: A Journal of English Linguistics [ISSN 2299-5900, e-ISSN 2392-2087]. Editors: John G. Newman, Marina Dossena.
April 2024 Reviewer for Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word-Formation (ZWJW) [ISSN: 2367-3877]. Editor: Petra M. Vogel.
February 2024 Reviewer for InVerbis. Lingue Letterature Culture [ISSN 2279-8978]. Editor: Guido Valdini.
July 2023 Reviewer for Italian Journal of Linguistics [ISSN 1120-2726]. Editors: Pier Marco Bertinetto, Mark Aronoff, Michele Loporcaro, Mario Squartini. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
November 2022 Reviewer for Lingue e Linguaggi [ISSN 2239-0367, eISSN 2239-0359]. Editor: Maria Grazia Guido.
October 2022 Reviewer for Lingua. An International Review of General Linguistics [ISSN: 0024-3841]. Editor: Marta Dynel. Elsevier.
September 2022 Reviewer for Iperstoria. Testi Letterature Linguaggi [ISSN 2281-4582]. Verona: University of Verona.
July 2022 Reviewer for Lingue Culture Mediazioni – Languages Cultures Mediation [ISSN Online 2421-0293 – Print ISSN 2284-1881]. Editors: Paola Catenaccio, Giuliana Elena Garzone. LED Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto.
May 2022 Reviewer for the volume Nouns – at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface. Editor: Elise Mignot. Palgrave McMillan.
Jan 2022 Reviewer for the volume Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains. Editors: Stela Manova, Boban Arsenijevic, Laura Grestenberger, Katharina Korecky-Kröll. De Gruyter.
Jan 2022 Reviewer for Lingua. An International Review of General Linguistics [ISSN: 0024-3841]. Editor: Marta Dynel. Elsevier.
Nov 2021 Reviewer for Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences [ISSN: 1613-396X]. Editor: Volker Gast. De Gruyter.
Aug 2021 Reviewer for ESP Across Cultures [ISSN 1972-8247]. Editors: Christopher Williams, Denise Milizia.
Jul 2021 Reviewer for SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics [ISSN 1336-782X]. Editor: Pavol Štekauer.
Jun 2021 Reviewer for Oxford Bibliographies, entry: Slang. Oxford University Press.
Feb 2021 Reviewer for CILC2021: XII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain, April 28-30, 2021.
Jan/Dec 2021 Reviewer for SN Social Sciences [ISSN 2662-9283]. Editor: Gino D’Oca. Springer.
Dec 2020 Reviewer for the volume The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language. Editors: Olga Fischer, Kimi Akita, Pamela Perniss. Oxford University Press.
Oct 2020 Reviewer for International Journal of English Studies [ISSN 1578-7044, eISSN 1989-6131]. Editor: María José Marín Pérez.
Aug 2020 Reviewer for International Journal of English Linguistics [ISSN 1923-869X]. Editor: Peng Zhou.
Jul 2020 Reviewer for International Journal of English Linguistics [ISSN 1923-869X]. Editor: Peng Zhou.
Jul 2020 Reviewer for the volume Extravagant Morphology. Editors: Dagmar Haumann, Matthias Eitelmann. John Benjamins.
Apr 2020 Reviewer for Language Sciences [ISSN 0388-0001]. Editor: Sune Vork Steffensen. Elsevier.
Feb 2020 Reviewer for Iperstoria. Testi Letterature Linguaggi [ISSN 2281-4582]. Verona: University of Verona.
Jan 2020 Reviewer for Anglistica Aion an Interdisciplinary Journal [ISSN 2035-8504]. Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale.
Aug 2019/July 2023 Reviewer for Italian Journal of Linguistics [ISSN 1120-2726]. Editors: Pier Marco Bertinetto, Mark Aronoff, Michele Loporcaro. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Jul 2019 Reviewer for Complutense Journal of English Studies [ISSN 2386-3935, eISSN 2386-6624]. Editor: Gitte Kristiansen. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Dec 2018 Reviewer for Lingue e Linguaggi [ISSN 2239-0367, eISSN 2239-0359]. Editor: Maria Grazia Guido.
Jun 2018 Reviewer for Linguistics [ISSN 0024-3949, eISSN 1613-396X]. Editor: Johan van der Auwera. De Gruyter.
Apr 2018 Reviewer for the volume Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language. Editor: Annalisa Baicchi. John Benjamins.
Jun 2017, Apr 2018 Reviewer for English Language & Linguistics [ISSN 1360-6743, eISSN 1469-4379]. Editors: Laurel J. Brinton, Patrick Honeybone, Bernd Kortmann. Cambridge University Press.
Feb 2017 Reviewer for the volume Innovative Perspectives on Tourism Discourse. Editor: Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska. IGI Global.
Dec 2016 Reviewer for International Journal of English Studies [ISSN 1578-7044, eISSN 1989-6131]. Editor: Jose Antonio Mompeán.
Aug 2016 Reviewer for Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics [ISSN 1732-0747]. Editor: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. De Gruyter Mouton.
Mar 2015 Reviewer for the volume 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. Editors: Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert, Peter Petré, Frauke D’hoedt, Charlotte Maekelberghe. John Benjamins.
Jul 2014 Reviewer for Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict [ISSN 2213-1272, eISSN 2213-1280]. Editors: Pilar G. Blitvich, Maria Sifianou. John Benjamins.
Research projects and grants
2021 – 2024 Member of the PRIN 2020 National Project (no. 2020NNJTW3) “The informalisation of English language learning through the media: Language input, learning outcomes and sociolinguistic attitudes from an Italian perspective”, University of Pavia
2017 – 2018 Member of the Local Project PRA_2017_53 “Efficienza pragmatica e comprensione di testi in L1 e L2 in giovani adulti normolettori e dislessici”, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa
2016 – 2019 Member of the PRIN 2015 National Project (no. 2015TJ8ZAS) “Knowledge Dissemination across media in English: Continuity and change in discourse strategies, ideologies, and epistemologies”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2014 NetWordS grant (European Network on Word Structure), CNR, University of Pisa
2014 Visiting Scholar, Research Project on Analogy in English Neologisms. Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, ICLTT), University of Vienna, Austria
2012 – 2014 Member of the International Project MetBib (Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy), http://www.benjamins.com/online/met/, John Benjamins
2012 (6 months) Grant for a Research Project on Teaching EFL, Department of English, University of Pisa
2011 (6 months) Grant for a Research Project on Teaching English Morphology to Italian university students, Language University Centre, Pisa
2006 (6 months) Grant within the PRIN Project “Lexicom-theta. La complessità lessicale: Definizione teorica e applicazioni metodologiche”, Department of English, University of Pisa
2003 Grant for participating in the 21st XXI AIA Conference, University of Modena
Conference participation
26-29/08/2025 Transitional word-formation paradigms: The case of parasynthetic adjectival compounds; Pejorative compounding and paradigmatic relations: A cross-linguistic analysis of the concept HEAD (withMuriel Norde, José Sánchez Fajardo, Kristel Van Goethem, Francesca Masini, Tijana Vesić Pavlović), 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2025), Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
09-11/07/2025 Plenary talk English Lexical Blending and Meaning Representation, 12th International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation (MKR 2025), University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain
25-28/06/2025 From compounding to affixation: Splinterrific and affixoidwise, Word-Formation Theories VII & Typology and Universals in Word-Formation VI, University of Košice, Slovakia
26/09/2024 – 28/09/2024 Plenary talk Transitional Word-Formation Phenomena and Their Role in the Coinage of New Words in English, 10th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE 2024), University of Alicante, Spain
28-30/08/2024 Verb-Noun compounds vs. synthetic compounds in English, German and Italian (with W.U. Dressler), 21st International Morphology Meeting Historical morphology and morphological theory, University of Vienna, Austria
24/04/2024 Morfologia di transizione ed elementi formativi: il confine fra composizione e derivazione, Lezione nell’ambito dei Seminari Permanenti di Linguistica, Università degli studi di Genova
14/03/2024 – 15/03/2024 From spearhead to crackhead: Unraveling the morphosemantic development of -head through a network of constructions (with José A. Sánchez Fajardo), Workshop Unlocking Evaluative Morphology: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
24/02/2024 Plenary talk Extra-grammatical and Transitional Morphology, 1st Annual Linguistics Symposium “Current Linguistics Phenomena: Reviews Across Borders”, Department of English Language / Faculty of Arts, University of Kufa, Iraq
08/12/2023 – 10/12/2023 Der Einsatz von KI für die Übersetzung von Okkasionalismen: Englische Human- und Maschinenübersetzungen von Nestroys Der Talisman (with W. Kolb & W.U. Dressler), 47th Austrian Linguistics Conference 2023, New perspectives on the relationship between linguistics and translation studies, University of Graz, Austria
29/08/2023 – 01/09/2023 Impoliteness and offensiveness: The case of English slang suffixoids, 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2023), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
01/12/2022 – 02/12/2022 From COVID-free to coronapocalypse. Trendy neologisms and nonce words of the COVID-19 pandemic, International LinC (Linguaggi della Crisi) Conference, The language of crisis from the pandemic to politics: Forms of discourse and models of communication, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari
29/09/2022 – 30/09/2022 Plenary talk Extra-grammatical and Transitional Morphology: From Blends to Combining Forms, The Eighth International Symposium on Linguistics, “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics, Romanian Academy, University of Bucharest, Romania
15/09/2022 – 17/09/2022 English deverbal -er synthetic compounds and their Italian renditions, XXX Convegno A.I.A., Experiment and Innovation: Branching Forwards and Backwards, Università di Catania, Catania
11/12/2021 – 12/12/2021 New evidence for the priority of pragmatics over semantics: The typological impact of morphological richness in Arabic, German, Italian & English diminutives (with V. Ritt-Benmimoun & W.U. Dressler), 46th Austrian Linguistics Conference / 46. Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung – ÖLT, Vienna, Austria (online), Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Wien
18/11/2021 – 19/11/2021 Covidiot, elbow bump, and frontliner: Language change in the COVID-19 era, CLAVIER Conference 2021, Exploring Words in the Digital Transformation Tools and Approaches for the study of Lexis and Phraseology in Evolving Discourse Domains, Modena (online), Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
04/11/2021 – 06/11/2021 Human and machine translation of nonce words in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Talisman and its English translations (with W. Kolb & W.U. Dressler), PETRA-E Conference 2021, Literary Translation Studies Today and Tomorrow, Dublin (online)
Trinity College Dublin
30/08/2021 – 03/09/2021 Typological impact of morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German, and English diminutives (with W.U. Dressler & V. Ritt-Benmimoun), 54th Annual Meeting of the SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea), Athens (online), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
06/02/2020 – 08/02/2020 Latinate vs. Non-Latinate English synthetic compounds (with W.U. Dressler), 19th International Morphology Meeting, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Department of Foreign Language Business, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
06/12/2019 – 07/12/2019 Nestroy als Übersetzer und Übersetzter am Beispiel seiner Wortneubildungen (aus dem Französischen und ins Italienische und Englisch) (with W.U. Dressler & B. Tumfart), 45th Austrian Linguistics Conference, Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Salzburg, Austria
28/11/2019 – 29/11/2019 Using Google Talks in ESP educational settings: A multimodal approach, CLAVIER Conference 2019, Knowledge Dissemination and Multimodal Literacy: Research Perspectives on ESP in a Digital Age, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
16/09/2019 – 18/09/2019 Blends vis-à-vis compounds in English, 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Linguistics: Between science and humanities: An overview of contributing disciplines and research agendas, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
04/09/2019 – 07/09/2019 Formal, semantic and pragmatic motivations for blending in English, XXIX Convegno A.I.A., Thinking Out of the Box in Language, Literature, Cultural and Translation Studies: Questioning Assumptions, Debunking Myths, Trespassing Boundaries, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
09/05/2019 – 10/05/2019 Synthetic Compounds. E. icebreaker and G. Eisbrecher: Dualism and superposition of compounding and derivation in synthetic compounds (with W.U. Dressler), Workshop 2019, Morphologie, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
29/11/2018 – 01/12/2018 “Designer babies” and “playing God”: Metaphor, genome editing, and bioethics in popular science texts, CLAVIER/PRIN 18 Conference, Knowledge Dissemination, Ethics and Ideology in Specialised Communication: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
11/10/2018 – 12/10/2018 Nestroy als Übersetzer und Übersetzter am Beispiel der Wortbildung (aus dem Französischen und ins Italienische und Englische) (with W.U. Dressler & B. Tumfart), Ein Internationales Symposium Deutsch Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
30/11/2017 – 02/12/2017 Google Talks as a new knowledge dissemination genre, CLAVIER 17 International Conference, Representing and Redefining Specialised Knowledge, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
14/09/2017 – 16/09/2017 “Brexit, Grexit, with the possibility of Spexit”: Blend splinters and secreted affixes as creative word-formation mechanisms, XXVIII Convegno A.I.A., Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
28/10/2015 – 30/10/2015 The impact of figuration on word-formation: The role of figurative language in the production and interpretation of novel analogical compounds, International Symposium, Figurative Thought and Language, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
29/08/2014 – 02/09/2014 Analogical nonce words and L2 learning, 12th ESSE Conference, Seminar SLANG 28 Non-words, nonce-words and morphology teaching, Pavol Josef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
12/09/2013 – 14/09/2013 Reformulating political discourse: How politicians construct their identity in the Facebook era, XXVI Convegno A.I.A., Remediating, Rescripting, Remaking: Old and New Challenges in English Studies, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
30/05/2013 – 31/05/2013 Understatement and overstatement: Two powerful persuasive tools in English and Italian political speeches, International Conference, The Languages of Politics. La politique et ses langages, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
13/09/2012 – 15/09/2012 The influence of English slang on Italian, Workshop Slang Now, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
23/04/2012 Understatement and overstatement: The language of politicians in the UK and in Italy, International Workshop, Intercultural Communication: Examples from English and Italian, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
26/01/2012 – 27/01/2012 Initialisms & Co.: Lexical and stylistic choices in scientific terminology, National Conference, The Popularization of Scientific Discourse in a Changing World: Lexical and Stylistic Choices Past and Present, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
11/11/2010 – 13/11/2010 Translating the lexicon of the law: A cross-linguistic study of De Franchis’s Law Dictionary, International Conference, LEXIS. The Study of Lexicon across Cultural Identities and Textual Genres, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
01/10/2009 – 03/10/2009 New perspectives on echoic irony: The case of the US sit-com Friends, XXIV Convegno A.I.A., Challenges for the 21st Century: Dilemmas, Ambiguities, Directions, University of Rome (Roma Tre), Rome, Italy
26/05/2009 American slang in Friends: Morphological, semantic and sociological features, International Conference, American English(es): Linguistic and Sociocultural Perspectives, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
07/06/2007 – 09/06/2007 Lexical innovation in the language of young English people, XIII National SLIN Conference, Socially-conditioned Language Change in a Diachronic Perspective, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
25/05/2006 – 27/05/2006 The lexicon of vision in English slang, Conference Glossari, dizionari, corpora: Lessicologia e lessicografia delle lingue europee, Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e Letterature Straniere Comparate, University of Milan, Gargnano del Garda, Brescia, Italy
20/03/2006 – 21/03/2006 Keeping lexical complexity in slang translation, International Conference, Lexical Complexity in Translation, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
15/09/2005 – 17/09/2005 Combining forms, blends and acronyms: The case of scape, XXII Convegno A.I.A., Cityscapes: Islands of the Self, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
11/09/2003 – 14/09/2003 Difficulty of slang translation, VIII Leicester-Pisa Research Colloquium, Translation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Conference organisation
Organisational Committee for CLAVIER 2019, Knowledge Dissemination and Multimodal Literacy: Research Perspectives on ESP in a Digital Age, Pisa, 28-29 November 2019
Organisational Committee for AIA XXVIII Conference, Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture, Pisa, 14-16 September 2017
Organisational Committee for International Workshop, Intercultural Communication: Examples from English and Italian, Pisa, 23 April 2012
Organisational Committee for International Conference, Lexical Complexity in Translation, Pisa, 20-21 March 2006
Organisational Committee for Workshop, Giornata Europea delle Lingue, Pisa, 27 September 2010
Organisational Committee for International Conference, The Architecture of Language: From Cognitive Modelling to Brain Mapping and Back, SNS, Pisa, 8-10 June 2006