Gabriella ALFIERI

Gabriella Alfieri is a full professor at University of Catania. She is a member of Accademia della Crusca and President of The Scientific Committee of Fondazione Verga and President of Scientific Committee for the National Edition of G. Verga’s Writings. Since 2023 she coordinates as P.I. the PRIN project "ARDIPS" (Digital Archive of Spoken-Written Italian), ranked among the first in the ministerial ranking.

She is a member of the editorial committee of leading scientific reviews and directs the "Annali" of Fondazione Verga.

Her research activity has been on the History of Italian as a language of literature (Lettera e figura nella scrittura dei «Malavoglia», Firenze, Accademia della Crusca, 1983), of popular fiction (La lingua di consumo, in L. Serianni - P. Trifone, Storia della lingua italiana, 2, Torino, Einaudi, 1994), or as target language in Sicily from the XVI century (La Sicilia, in F. Bruni, L'italiano nelle regioni, Torino, Utet, 1992-1994), and recently as language of the media (with I. Bonomi, Lingua italiana e televisione, Roma, Carocci, 2012), Verga, Roma, Salerno, 2016; I «vestigi dei nomi». L'identità di Catania tra storia e mito, Palermo, Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, 2016, «Il potente fantasma». La lingua come “valore” nazionale nel primo Romanticismo, in «Moderna», 2018. She recently studies the authors of European realism with the method of comparative stylistics.

She has directed a research team in Catania that studied television language in national projects (PRIN 2006 e 2008) and worked about Vocabolario dinamico dell’italiano moderno (PRIN 2015,  P.I. - C. Marazzini); she now works to Vi.Ver (Vocabolario dell'italiano dei veristi). Since 2023 he has coordinated as P.I. the PRIN project 'ARDIPS' (Digital Archive of Spoken-Written Italian), ranked among the first in the ministerial ranking. She was awarded the Nicola Zingarelli Prize 2023, for the special section 'Non omnia possumus omnes', concerning personalities who have distinguished themselves during the year for particular scientific works, for scientific studies of considerable prestige, for works of strong moral and educational commitment.

Since September 2017 to September 2019 she was appointed, as a delegate by The Rector of the University of Catania, President of CLA (Linguistic Center of Ateneo).