Teaching staff

Academic career

1999: PhD in English Literature at Sussex University (UK).
1995: Master in English Literature(Critical Theory) at Sussex University (UK).
1992: Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures at Pavia University (Italy).

Work and research experience:

2000-2004: teacher of English language at IULM University, Milan (Italy).
2000–2005: teacher of English language and translation at Catholic University, Milan (Italy).
2004: scholarship for research activities at the Foreign Languages Department of Parma University (Italy)

Sample translations:
- How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World – A Short History of Modern Delusions, by Francis Wheen (Londra, Fourth Estate, 2004), Il Saggiatore; Milan, 2004.
- Ajax, the Dutch, the War, by Simon Kuper (Orion Books, 2003), Il Saggiatore, Milan, 2005.
- “Integrative functions of the brain and origins of fetal psychism: some theoretical and clinical reflections”, di M. Mancia, in Coming into the World. A Dialague between Medical and Human Sciences, G.B. La Sala, P. Fagandini, V. Iori, F. Monti, I. Blickstein (eds), Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2006, pp. 161-173.
- “Scenarios of pregnancy and birth in immigrant families”, di A.M. Di Vita et al., in Coming into the World. A Dialague between Medical and Human Sciences, G.B. La Sala, P. Fagandini, V. Iori, F. Monti, I. Blickstein (eds), Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2006, pp. 311-330.
- Physiological pain, pathological pain, iatrogenic pain”, di G. Sestetti e A. Regalia, in Coming into the World. A Dialague between Medical and Human Sciences, G.B. La Sala, P. Fagandini, V. Iori, F. Monti, I. Blickstein (eds), Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2006, pp. 341-355.
- Mhudi by Solmon Plaatje (1939), Baldini Castoldi Dalai editore, Milan, 2010.

Conferences and Lectures:
- 'The Fiction of Christine Brooke-Rose', paper presented the English Graduate Colloquium, Sussex University, 18th November 1998.
- 'Structural Hierarchies and Phallic Symbols in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Between', paper presented at the 'Hierarchies' conference held at the University of Loughborough, 8th July 2000;
- 'Money, Sex and Language: the Concept of Exchange in J.M.Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country', paper presented at the 'Money' conference held at the University of Wales, 24th August 2001.
- 'The image of the spiral in Barthes’ Criticism and Brooke-Rose’s Fiction', paper presented at the conference ‘New Visions: The Writer in Literature and Criticism’ held at the University of East Anglia, 26th July 2002.
-‘Cultural Fragmentation in Belizean Literature: the Case of Zee Edgell’, paper presented at the ASNEL Conference held at the University of Magdeburg, 30th May 2003.
- 'Linguistic Hibridity and Fragmented Identities in Belizean Literature', paper presented at the AIA Conference held at the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, 25th-27th September 2003.
- 'Il linguaggio del silenzio: resistenza politica e testuale nell’opera di J.M. Coetzee', paper presented at the AISLI Conference held at the University of Rome, 27th-29th November 2003.
- ‘Critical Theories and Textual Practices: an Introduction to Postmodernism’, lecture given at Liceo M. Gioia, Piacenza, 25th March 2004.
- ‘The Abrogation of the Imperial Canon in Postcolonial Literature’, lecture given at Liceo M. Gioia, Piacenza, 28th April 2004.
- ‘Language and Ideology in Postcolonial Literatures’, lecture given at Istituto P. Giordani, Parma, 19th April 2005.
-‘Postcolonial Translation’ lecture given at Istituto P. Giordani, Parma, 3rd May 2005.
- 'Linguistic Cityscapes as Mindscapes: The Representation of the Estuarian Dialect of Contemporary London in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Next', paper presented the AIA conference held at the University of Cagliari, 15th-17th September 2005.
- 'Postmodernist and Postcolonial Appropriations of Realist Texts', lecture given at the University of Parma 12th December 2005.
- 'D. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe',lecture given at University of Parma, 19th Dicembre 2005.
- 'The notion of Intertextuality in Postcolonial Literature: Banjo: A Story Without a Plot di C. McKay, Jane Eyre di C. Brontë e Wild Sargasso Sea di J. Rhys', lecture given at the University of Parma, 14th February 2006.
- 'Think Global, Act Local – traduzione e pubblicità nell’era della globalizzazione', paper presented at the conference “Il traduttore visibile” held at the University of Parma, 10th-11th March 2006.
- 'Il mito della creazione: una rilettura di Christine Brooke-Rose', lecture given at the University of Parma, 8th February 2007.
- 'Certificazione per la Scuola Primaria: proposte di attività e profilo dell’insegnante', paper presented at the conference “L’AICLU e la politica linguistica nelle Università italiane”, held at the University of Parma 24th-26th May 2007.
- 'In the Heart of the Country di J.M. Coetzee e Dust di Hansel: problemi di traduzione intersemiotica e interlinguistica', comunicazione presentata al convegno “Lingue policentriche a confronto”, Università del Salento, 8-9 maggio 2008.
- 'La donna vampiro tra romanzo e fumetto. The Vampire Kisses Series di Ellen Schreiber', comunicazione presentata al convegno “Il traduttore visibile” Università di Parma 30 setembre 2010.
- “The Darker Side of Belize: Trespassing the Border between Heaven and Hell”, paper presented at the conference “Oltre il confine” held at the University of Parma, 19th April 2012.
- “Making ‘Specialised’ Languages ‘Popular’ via Audio-Visual Material”, paper presented at the 26th AIA Conference (Associazione Italiana Anglisti) held at the University of Parma 12th-14th September 2013.
-“Le rime umoristiche di Dr Seuss: problemi di traduzione interlinguistica e intersemiotica”, paper presented athe the conference “Il traduttore visibile” held at the University of Parma, 26th-27th September 2014.