Academic education
2011 – 2014
PhD in Linguistics, University of Pisa, Italy
research project: Synaesthesia and language.
Final Dissertation: Sinestesia e Metafora: una relazione pericolosa [PDF available]
Tutors: Giovanna Marotta, Florida Nicolai, Claudio Gentili
2011
University for Foreigners, Siena, Italy
II level Certification of competence in teaching Italian as a foreign language (DITALS II)
2006-2009
MA in Linguistics, University of Pisa, Italy
Final dissertation in Applied Linguistics: A hierarchy of senses. Does it make sense? [PDF available]
Supervisors: Roberto Ajello, Giovanna Marotta
2008-2009
University of Manchester, UK
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Visiting student – Socrates-Erasmus scholarship
2003-2006
BA in Literature and Italian Language, University of Pisa, Italy
Final dissertation in Professional and Creative writing
Supervisor: Fabrizio Franceschini
Talks & posters
2010
CODISCO - Mente linguaggio ed evoluzione, Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italy - 4° national congress of PhD research programmes in Cognitive Sciences (talk) “Ha senso una gerarchia dei sensi?”
LOT Summer School, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (poster) “A hierarchy of senses: does it make sense?”
2012
CODISCO - Animals, humans, machines: the whereabouts of language, Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italy - 6° national congress of PhD research programmes in Cognitive Sciences (talk) “La sinestesia linguistica in italiano: analisi della lingua viva alla ricerca di incroci sensoriali”
Community services
2011 –Â
Linguistics PhD students’ representative