My main areas of interest are interactional sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and the linguistics of migration. I research the ways in which people communicate in changing, complex societies, especially when they have different histories and semiotic repertoires. I am interested in translanguaging in society and education, and my research draws on empirical data gained through ethnographic observations and audio and video recordings of everyday interactions.

I am particularly interested in investigating interactions taking place in superdiverse contexts and examining both verbal and non-verbal means of communication that comprise multilingual speakers’ communicative repertoires. My doctoral thesis at the University of Bologna focused on migrant speakers’ translanguaging practices and on multilingual speakers’ complex and hybrid identities and linguistic ideologies.

In 2021 I was awarded with a research scholarship from the University of Bologna to work on a research project on dialogic facilitation in classroom interactions. In addition, in 2022 I received a research scholarship from the University of Padova to work on the research project ‘Culture Migranti’ as part of the project Integration of Migrants through Policies and Actions Codesigned on the Territory (IMPACT), co-funded by the European Union through the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Italian Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali (Italian Ministry of Employment and Welfare).