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Daria MOTTA

Associate Professor of Italian linguistics [LIFI-01/A]
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Office: A Catania: studio 121, ex Monastero dei Benedettni, piazza Dante 32. A Ragusa: ex Distretto militare, Ragusa Ibla, 1° piano
Email: daria.motta@unict.it - dariamotta76@gmail.com
Phone: 0957102235

Office Hours
Wednesday from 12:00 to 13:00 | Thursday from 09:00 to 10:00

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Her studies focus on the history of the Italian language and Italian linguistics, and are divided into four main areas:
- the language of literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a particular focus on the language of Verga and De Roberto and, more recently, Brancati;

- Italian in theater between the 18th and 19th centuries, with a focus on pragmatics; 

- Italian in the mass media
- contemporary Italian. 

In the first area of interest, the study of the language and style of Verismo, and in particular of Verga, she published a monograph based on research conducted during her three-years doctorate: "La lingua fusa. La prosa di Vita dei campi dal parlato popolare allo scritto-narrato" (Bonanno editore for the Verga Foundation). For the National Edition of the Works of Giovanni Verga, she edited the critical edition of the novel "Una peccatrice" (Fondazione Verga, Interlinea).
Other contributions concern the linguistic profile of Catania's authors of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in particular de Roberto and Brancati, whose texts have also been investigated from a sociolinguistic perspective as repertoires of the speech of the time transposed into literary writing, with phenomena of mixing registers, dialectal interference, and actual code-switching. 

A related, but not secondary, area of interest to previous research concerns the language of nineteenth-century theater, represented by Verga's early experiments and, more recently, by dramatic writing between the 1700s and 1800s. 
Since 2003, she has been studying the dubbing of long-running Anglo-American series, focusing on the linguistic interference of the English model on the Italian text. In particular, she aims to identify the dynamics between negative interference, which leads to a deviation from the rules of the target language, and positive interference, which leads to an increase in the use of structures present in the target system. She has also taken an interest in the language teaching implications of television dubbing, investigating how dubbed texts can be exploited for teaching Italian as a second language. Teaching Italian as a second or foreign language is, in fact, a field in which Daria Motta has gradually specialized, starting with the achievement of the CEDILS certification from Ca' Foscari University. 

Also in the field of media language studies, in 2020 she conducted a study on the language of contemporary Italian animated films, published in the A-level journal «Lingue e culture dei media».

Recently, she collaborated with Gabriella Alfieri and Ilaria Bonomi on the new edition of the monograph “Lingua italiana e televisione" (2024, Carocci); in particular, she dealt with the linguistic implications of new intermedial practices of television viewing, especially with regard to fiction and children's and youth television genres. 
Finally, in line with her latest interests, in 2022 she published, with Cesati, the monograph "Scrivere e parlare in italiano oggi. Parla come mangi e scrivi come parli?", in which she focused on some aspects of contemporary communication.

VERSIONE ITALIANASTUDIUMAREA RISERVATA

Daria Motta is an Associate Professor of Italian Linguistics; she has collaborated for years with the Verga Foundation and serves on the Scientific Council and the editorial board of the «Annali della Fondazione Verga». She is a member of ASLI (Association for the History of the Italian Language) and of ASLI-Scuola, where she served on the Executive Committee from 2020 to 2023. Since 2012, she has also been a member of the Center for Sicilian Philological and Linguistic Studies.

On Verga’s short prose, she has published La lingua fusa. La prosa di "Vita dei campi" dal parlato popolare allo scritto-narrato (Bonanno, 2011). In 2020, he edited the critical edition of the novel Una peccatrice for the National Edition of the Works of Giovanni Verga and is currently working on various collections of correspondence. In addition to 19th-century language—both literary and non-literary—his research interests also include contemporary language, the language of the mass media, and the teaching of Italian as a second language (L2). In the series “L’italiano di oggi,” edited by Fabio Rossi and Fabio Ruggiano, she published the volume Scrivere e parlare in italiano oggi: parla come mangi e scrivi come parli? Finally, she collaborated with Gabriella Alfieri and Ilaria Bonomi on the new edition of the volume Lingua italiana e televisione, Carocci, 2024.

Current position

 

Associate Professor in the academic field 10/F3 (Italian Linguistics and Philology), scientific disciplinary sector L-FIL-LET/12 (Italian Linguistics); 

- holds the National Academic Qualification for the first level in the same scientific disciplinary sector (valid from March 14, 2025, to March 14, 2037)

 

served as: 

  1. Fixed-term researcher (pursuant to Article 24, paragraph 3, letters A and B of Law 240/2010) in the competitive sector 10/F3—Italian Linguistics and Philology—at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania, Special Teaching Unit for Foreign Languages and Literatures in Ragusa (from January 3, 2018, to June 30, 2024).

 

She has conducted the following university-level teaching activities, including invited lectures and classes

  1. Professor of Italian Language Pedagogy at the “Center – Graduate School for Teacher Education” at the University of Catania, from 2024 to the present. 
  2. Instructor for the linguistics track of the Doctorate in Interpretation Sciences at DISUM, teaching the seminars “Orality/Writing, Regionalism/National Language, Diegesis/Mimesis in the Narrative of the Verists and Beyond” (6 hours, February 15 and 21, 2024); “Linguistic Ideology and Contemporary Italian”; Spoken and Written Language in Theatrical Texts (3 hours, March 27, 2026). 
  3. nstructor and coordinator, since 2022, of the online course “National Languages: Italian” as part of the EUNICE project—European Universities for Customized Education, funded by the Erasmus+ Program 2014–2020—under the “European Universities” initiative. 
  4. «“In a Plainly Popular Style”: Narrative Writing in Verga’s Short Stories, a presentation at the seminar for doctoral students at the University for Foreigners of Siena titled “Verga and the Conquest of Language. Celebrations of the Verga Centennial” (February 14–15, 2023) 
  5. Issues in Language Policy. School as a Threshold for Integration, Winter School “Mediterranean. Knowledge and Transformation,” February 10–15, 2020, Ragusa Ibla (School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Catania; Department of Political Science, University of Calabria; San Giovanni Battista Foundation; “Giorgio LaPira” Mediterranean Center). 
  6. With R. Sardo, 20 hours of instruction in “Italian Linguistics” for the Level I Master’s Program “Organization and Management of Educational Institutions in Multicultural Contexts,” organized by the University of Catania and funded by the 2014–2020 Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund. Specific Objective: Integration/Legal Migration - National Objective 3: Capacity Building, PROG-740 “Multi-year Training Plan for Administrators, Teachers, and ATA Staff in Schools with a High Proportion of Foreign Students.” Academic Year 2020-2021. 
  7. 30 hours of instruction in “Italian Linguistics” for the Level I Master’s program in “Theories and Techniques of Translation and Interpretation in Italian – Italian Sign Language (LIS) and LIS-Italian.” Academic Year 2021-2022 and 2024-2025.  

 

Teaching in training and continuing education courses. 

  1. Instructor for the continuing education courses “I Lincei for a New Approach to School Teaching: A National Network,” in the Italian language courses organized by the Catania-Messina Center, from 2022 to the present. 
  2. Tutor for the Verga Centennial Training Course “Words” and “Things”: Rereading Verga Today, curated by Gabriella Alfieri, Andrea Manganaro, Luisa Mirone, and Alessandra Traversa (Catania, Benedictine Monastery, March 27–28, 2023). 
  3. Instructor for the training course “Inclusive Practices for NAI Students” for educational institutions in Area 23 of the Regional School Office—Ragusa Area, coordinated by the lead school “P. Vetri” in Ragusa (10 hours total, on September 22, 27, and 29, 2023).
  4. Instructor for the 4 editions of the training course “School and Family Mediation, Tools for Conflict Management (RURAL HUB Project)” organized by the FO.CO. Formazione Comunione Cooperative in Chiaramonte Gulfi (RG). (Acate, RG, October 12 and 19, 2022; Acate, RG, April 5 and 26, 2023; Ragusa, September 19 and 26, 2023; online, November 27, December 4 and 11, 2023)
  5. Organizer of the training course “Teaching Italian as a Second Language to Children: From Play to Study,” aimed at preschool and elementary school teachers at the “P. Vetri” Institute in Ragusa, and instructor for 9 hours of blended learning (September 2020) 
  6. External expert instructor for the project “New Teaching Strategies for Adults and Foreigners” organized by the CPIA in Agrigento (4 hours of instruction on 04/12/2019; 8 hours on 02/27–28/2020). 
  7. Instructor in workshops on teaching Italian for the Mat-ita Project: Enhancement of language and math skills for high school students at the University of Catania (3 sessions of 2 hours each).

 

She has been a member of the following Reserch groups:

  1. Head (since November 1, 2024) of the Catania Research Unit for the 2022 PRIN ARDIPS project. Digital Archive of Spoken and Written Italian (1860–1953), Principal Investigator Gabriella Alfieri (Fabio Rossi since November 1, 2024); University of Catania, Messina, Milan, Siena, Accademia della Crusca.

 

  1. Member of the Catania-based research group for the VIVer Project. Vocabulary of Veristic Italian, a collaboration between the Verga Foundation and the Accademia della Crusca

 

  1. Principal Investigator (PI) of the interdepartmental university research project PIACERI “CARE. Con-tact; affective education, languages, and cultures for childhood,” led by Prof. G. D’Aprile of DISFOR.

 

  1. Member of the research group for the University Project PIACERI-Line 2, funded in 2020 by DISUM in Catania with university funds, code UPB A8722222475, titled “CORSIT. Corpus of corpora of textuality in Sicilian vernacular (14th–15th centuries) and Italo-Sicilian (16th–20th centuries). Textual, stylistic-semantic, and socio-pragmatic analysis.” (PI: Mario Pagano).

 

  1. Member of the research group for the Prometeo Project—Line 3, funded in 2019 by the DISUM Department of Catania using university funds (Principal Investigator: Gabriella Alfieri, title: “Com.Te.Sto. Understanding History Texts. Strategies for the comprehension and simplification of history textbooks for schools,” Protocol No. 101703 of 03/29/2019). 

 

  1. Principal Investigator of the University Prometeo Project Line 1, funded in 2019 by DISUM in Catania with university funds (title: “From the Literary Page to the Stage. The Invention of Spoken Language in the Seventeenth Century, from the Novel to the Theater”).
  2. Holder of a research collaboration contract (from August 1, 2016, to September 30, 2016) under the PRIN 2012 program (CUP E68C13000420001) titled “Reference Corpus for a New Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Italian.” Documentary sources, backdating, innovations. (Principal Investigator: Prof. C. Marazzini, President of the Accademia della Crusca). Scanning, digital processing, and encoding of etiquette guides, literary texts, and plays from the subcorpus of the Catania research unit (“corpus of paraliterature, popular literature, etiquette guides, and children’s books”; Scientific Director: Prof. G. Alfieri) to be included in the digital platform developed by the Accademia della Crusca.
  3. Holder of a research collaboration contract (from October 15, 2014, to November 15, 2014) under the PRIN 2012 program (CUP E68C13000420001) titled “Reference Corpus for a New Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Italian.” Documentary sources, backdating, innovations. (Principal Investigator: Prof. C. Marazzini, President of the Accademia della Crusca) Scanning activities, using OCR software and TEI text markup, of the subcorpus of the Catania research unit (Corpus of paraliterature, popular science, etiquette guides, children’s books; Scientific Director: Prof. G. Alfieri). (2014). 

 

has presented papers at the following seminars, conferences and workshops:

  1. with S. Cerruto, Spoken and Written Italian in the 1950s: Diego Fabbri’s “Processo di famiglia,” a paper presented at the conference “Bilanci e prospettive del PRIN ARDIPS” (Digital Archive of Spoken and Written Italian), Milan, December 4–5, 2025. 
  2. Refocusing on Language: The New Centers of Linguistic Prestige in the First Two Decades of the 2000s, a presentation at the conference “Living in Italian: Varieties, Emerging Uses, and New Speakers”, marking the 10th anniversary of DICO, Messina (March 20, 2025)Lo sguardo delle donne sull’Italia postunitaria: il giornalismo d’inchiesta di Jessie White Mario e di Matilde Serao, relazione al Convegno internazionale «Lo scrittoio delle donne» tra verismo e postverismo: intellettuali, scrittrici, pubbliciste, drammaturghe, tra Otto e Novecento (1850-1922), Fondazione Verga, Catania 5-7- dicembre 2024. 
  3. The Writers’ Account: Late 19th-Century Sicily as Seen by Jessie White Mario and Elvira Mancuso, paper presented at the DISUM International Conference “Gender, Utopias, Heterotopias: Variations Across Languages, Literatures, Law, and Religion,” Catania, December 2–5, 2024. 
  4. Discovering Literary Italian Between Verismo and Modernism. A “Sociolinguistic” Reinterpretation of Ugo Ojetti’s Interviews, paper presented at the ILPE6 International Congress “Linguistic Ideologies in the Print Media and Other Means of Communication: The Case of the Romance Languages,” October 9–12, Moncton, Canada. 
  5. “Editorial Italian by Foreigners”: English Influences in the Italian of Jessie White Mario’s Reportage, paper presented at the 16th ASLI Congress, Languages, Frontiers, Explorations, and Migrations (Trieste, September 12–14, 2024)
  6. On the ARDIPS linguistic annotation of spoken-written theater: reflections on G. Giacosa’s “Come le foglie,” paper presented with G. Alfieri at the seminar Spoken-Written: Reflections and Analytical Tests Based on “ARDIPS” (Digital Archive of Spoken-Written Italian), Catania, July 10–11, 2024. 
  7. Participation in the seminar “Italian Today: Emerging Uses and New Speakers,” organized as part of the “Grandi Voci a UniME” series. Scientific coordinator: Prof. F. Rossi. Messina, November 20, 2023
  8. Verga Foundation: history, objectives, activities, with Gabriella Alfieri and Andrea Manganaro. Meeting of the “Lecture Series” of Ottocentismi-INNCS. Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies, held online on November 10, 2023.
  9. Narrating and describing the condition of women in early 20th-century Sicily. The fiction and non-fiction writing of Elvira Mancuso, paper presented at the AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) Conference “100 AATI Years. 1923–2023,” Catania, July 5–8, 2023. 
  10. Participation in the 8th Research Colloquium of the Department of Humanities, with a presentation on the topic of Discipline Pedagogy (Catania, January 26, 2023)
  11. Beyond Ethnography. The Representation of Popular Culture in Sicily in the Narrative of Verga’s Short Stories, paper presented at the conference The Anthropological Dimension in Verga’s Fiction (University of Siena, November 28, 2022).
  12. The “Lined Narrative” in Verga’s Short Stories: From *Storie del castello di Trezza* to *I ricordi del capitano D’Arce*, a paper presented at the international conference *Verga’s “Miniatures”: Short Fiction and the World Stage* (Messina, November 3–4, 2022).
  13. 4th ASLI School Conference “One Language, Many Languages” (Cagliari, November 10–12, 2022), with a paper titled The Author’s Dialect: Guiding Reflection on Sicilian Diatopia through Contemporary Fiction. 
  14. 25th AIPI Congress (International Association of Italian Language Teachers, Palermo, October 27–29, 2022), “Narrating Reality: Italy Yesterday and Today,” with a presentation titled “Brancati the Short Story Writer and Verga the Non-Master”. 
  15.  Attendance at the International conference “Verga’s ‘Miniatures’: Short Fiction and the World Stage” (Messina, November 3–4, 2022) with a presentation titled “The ‘Framed Story’ in Verga’s Short Stories: From *Storie del castello di Trezza* to *I ricordi del capitano D’Arce*. 
  16. 15th ASLI Conference “Texts and Varieties” (Naples, September 21–24, 2022), with a paper titled “Instructive and Entertaining: The Translated Written (and Spoken) Language of Treatises on Popular Education in the Late 19th Century.” . 
  17. National Conference “At School with Giovanni Verga” (Catania, March 28–30, 2022), Verga Foundation. Paper titled: The Tools of Realism in Verga’s Short Stories: A Linguistic Reading of Primavera and Vita dei campi. 
  18. 24th AIPI Congress (International Association of Italian Language Teachers), “Science, Art, and Literature. Languages, Narratives, and Cultures That Intersect” (Geneva, June 28–30, 2021), with a paper titled “Fluvial, Hospitable, Jealous, Enemy Languages. The Plasticity of Linguistic Repertoires in the Words of Migrant Writers.”
  19. 24th National Congress of the ADI (Association of Italianists), “Literature and Power / Powers” (Catania, September 23–25, 2021), featuring a presentation titled *Between Courtyards and Salons: Power Dynamics and Love in Verga’s Theater*..
  20. Final seminar of the “Prometeo” Research Project (Line 3) funded by DISUM in Catania, “Com.Te.Sto, Understanding History Texts” (Catania, November 3–4, 2021).
  21. 14th ASLI Congress (Association for the History of the Italian Language) “Historical, Dialectal, and Regional Lexicography” (Milan, November 5–7, 2020), with a paper titled “To Families, Schools, and Workshops.” Lexicographical Proposals for Popular Education in Post-Unification Sicily; 
  22. 2nd Congress of the SIP (Society of Polish Italianists) “Experiencing and Expressing Italianness” (Łódź, December 6–8, 2019), with a paper titled The Language of the New Italianness. Reflections on Italian migration literature; 
  23.  with Sabina Fontana, conference “The Many Faces of Violence Against Women” organized by the Ragusa Women’s Council (November 27–28, 2019), with a paper titled When Language Constructs Differences: Gender Across Languages and Cultures 
  24.  13th ASLI Congress (Association for the History of the Italian Language) “Historical Pragmatics of Italian: Communicative Models and Practices of the Past” (Catania, October 29–31, 2018), with a paper titled “From ‘Masqueraded Speech’ to Simulated Speech: Pragmatics on Stage between the 18th and 19th Centuries”; 
  25.  52nd SLI Congress (Italian Linguistic Society) “Trends in Contemporary Italian Revisited” (Bern, September 6–8, 2018) with a paper titled The Standard and the Neostandard in Italian and Dubbed Television Series. A single linguistic model or a “concise” dubbing?
  26.    “Humpty Dumpty. Bilingualism in Preschool Age” Seminar (SDS of Ragusa-Ibla, May 18, 2018) with a presentation titled From Manny the Handyman to Peppa Pig. Is TV the New Language Teacher?
  27.  International Conference marking the 40th anniversary of the Verga Foundation, “I suoi begli anni”: Verga between Milan and Catania (1871–1892) (Catania-Nicolosi, April 19–21, 2018, and Milan, November 28–30, 2018), featuring a paper titled *Una peccatrice. Writings and Rewritings between Catania, Florence, and Milan*. 
  28. Seminar “Italian, English, Spanish, French: A Comparative Study of Teaching Methods” (Catania, December 4–5, 2017), organized by the University of Catania’s Multimedia Language Center, with a presentation titled The Potential of Dubbed Audiovisual Materials in Teaching Italian as a Second Language (L2) and as a Foreign Language (LS). 
  29.  International Conference “Dialect: Spoken, Written, Transmitted” (Sappada/Plodn (BL), July 2–5, 2014), featuring a paper titled “The ‘Penny’ Dialect: Identity and Subversion in Early 20th-Century Popular Literature from Catania”; 
  30.  13th SILFI International Congress “The Variable Language in Contemporary Literary, Artistic, and Functional Texts (1915–2014): Analysis, Interpretation, Translation” (Palermo, September 22–24, 2014), with a paper titled Spoken, Written, Filmed Words. The changing language in Brancati’s *Il bell’Antonio* and its adaptations;
  31.  International Conference on “The Languages of Films: Dubbing, Acquisition, and Methodology” (Pavia, September 14–15, 2012), featuring a presentation titled “A Diachronic Model of TV Dubbing in Contemporary Italian”; 
  32. 45th International Congress of the SLI - Italian Linguistic Society (Aosta/Bard/Turin, September 26–28, 2011) “Linguistic Coexistence in Pre- and Post-Unification Italy” with a paper titled “Spoken Italian in Writing: Uses and Varieties from De Roberto to Brancati”; 
  33.  International Conference “Italy and the Mass Media” (University of Bergen, Norway, November 17–19, 2011), with a paper titled “From the Scene of the Crime to the Crime Scene: Italian Dubbed in Perry Mason and CSI.”  
  34.  Verga Foundation International Conference “The Unification of Italy in the Works of the Verists” (Catania, December 13–16, 2010), with a paper titled From the Written Language of Verga the Short-Story Writer to the Interregional Spoken Language of De Roberto the Novelist.
  35.  Conference “1976–2006. Italian on Television,” concluding a research project funded by PRIN 2006 (University of Milan, June 15–16, 2009), featuring a presentation titled “Interfered Italian on TV: An Overview of Dubbed Textuality in Fiction, Cartoons, and Documentaries”; 
  36.  With Mariella Giuliano, international conference “Television Italian: A Comparison of Analytical Methodologies,” organized as part of the PRIN project “Television Italian: 1976–2006” (Viterbo, University of Tuscia, February 1–2, 2008), with a paper titled “Storytelling on Television: Fiction and Children’s TV”; 
  37.  Verga Foundation Conference “Verismo Theater” (Catania, November 24–26, 2004), with a paper titled “The ‘Formula of Gallantry’: Colloquial and Social Styles in the Spoken Language of *Rose caduche*”; 
  38.   National Conference “Italian Spoken Language” (Naples, February 13–15, 2003), with a paper titled “Wild” Spoken Language. From Sector-Specificity to Linguistic Usage. 
  39. with G. Alfieri and S. Contarino, Conference “Italian and English in Comparison: Problems of Linguistic Interference” (Venice, April 12–13, 2002), with a paper titled Phraseological Interferences in Television Dubbing: The Italian of E.R. and “The Bold and the Beautiful”. 

 

has served as a member of scientific committees for master’s programs or editorial boards for journals:

  1. Member of the Scientific Committee for the Level I Master’s Program “Theories and Techniques of Translation and Interpretation in Italian – Italian Sign Language (LIS) and LIS-Italian,” organized by the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures in Ragusa and coordinated by S. Fontana, Associate Professor of General Linguistics (since 2020)
  2. Co-director of the Pronoeo book series, Agorà Edizioni.
  3. Coordinator of the editorial board of the “Annali della Fondazione Verga” and editor of issue no. 4, new series, of the journal. (since 2012 to present) 
  4. Member of the editorial board of *Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale*, the journal of the Società di Storia Patria per la Sicilia Orientale, published by Franco Angeli.

 

has served as a member of organizing or scientific committees for conferences:

  1. Member of the Scientific Committee and the Organizing Committee of the international conference “Voci di donne” (2018 edition: “Power and Gender: Religions, Languages, Cultures,” December 11–12, 2018, Ragusa Ibla; 2019 edition: “Border Crossings, Migrations, Narratives,” October 29–30, 2019).
  2. Coordinator of the Organizing Secretariat for the 13th ASLI Congress (Association for the History of the Italian Language) Historical Pragmatics of Italian. Communicative Models and Practices of the Past, October 29–31, 2018, Catania.
  3. Coordinator of the session “The Significant City” at the 6th AISU Congress (Italian Association of Urban History) “Visible and Invisible: Perceiving the City Between Descriptions and Omissions,” September 12–14, 2013, former Benedictine Monastery, Catania. 

 

serves as a member or holds institutional positions in the following scientific societies: 

  1. Elected member of the ASLI-Scuola Executive Committee from October 28, 2019, to October 9, 2022
  2. Member of ASLI, the Association for the History of the Italian Language (since 2012). 
  3. Member of ASLI-Scuola (since 2014). 
  4. Member of the Center for Sicilian Philological and Linguistic Studies (since 2012). 
  5. Member of the Society of Local History for Eastern Sicily—Catania Section (since 2016).

 

has served as an anonymous reviewer for scientific journals, scientific publications, or doctoral projects: 

  1. Anonymous reviewer for the proceedings of the 4th ILPE International Congress, “The Mediation of Linguistic Ideologies through the Press: The Case of the Romance Languages” (University of Messina, October 23–25, 2019)
  2. Anonymous reviewer for the academic journals “Italiano linguaDue” (Category A) and “L’italiano a scuola.”. 
  3. Referee for projects in the 28th cycle of the Doctoral Program in Humanities at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.”.

 

has held, or currently holds, the following institutional or student-service roles: 

  1. Vice Chair of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Linguistic Sciences for Intercultural Communication and Education (LM39) at DISUM, University of Catania, based at the SDS in Ragusa. 
  2. Member of the Scientific Council of ITALSTRA, the School of Italian Language and Culture for Foreigners at the University of Catania, since 2024.
  3. Member of the Faculty Board of the Doctoral Program in Interpretation Studies, since 2026 (41st Cohort)).
  4. Member of the Quality Assurance Group for the Doctoral Program in Interpretation Studies (since 2026). 
  5. Member of the Quality Assurance Group of the CdS in Mediazione linguistica e interculturale e in Scienze linguistiche per l’intercultura e la formazione (since 2023).
  6. Communications Representative for the President of the SDS of Ragusa, Prof. F. Impellizzeri (since 2026)
  7. DISUM Representative for the Coordination of the Research Line in Discipline-Specific Pedagogy (since 09/25/23)
  8. DISUM Representative for Continuing Education and Relations with Schools (since 01/19/2022; reappointed on 11/12/25).
  9. Representative of the Rector of the University of Catania for relations with the ICoN (Italian Culture on the Net) Interuniversity Consortium, in 2018
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