I currently hold a post-doc position in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padova, researching on the figurative language used to represent Coronavirus in Political Discourse. I concluded my PhD in 2021 during which I studied the metaphorical representation of migration between 1900s and 2000s adopting a corpus- based approach. I have obtained a master’s degree in linguistics, cognitive science and communication and a bachelor’s degree in Italian literature, both collected at the University of Siena. I previously worked as Post-Doc researcher at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” – Italian National Research Council on the exploration and categorization of Language Resources within CLARIN infrastructure.

My research interests range from Computational Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics to Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics. I am extremely interested in studying language from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective, adopting a mixed qualitative-quantitative methodology, where quantitative techniques, characterized by their statistical reliability are assisted by the qualitative, close, analysis of linguistic data. I am also strongly interested in corpus compilation and in understanding how new technologies could help us in enhancing this process. Lastly, I am attracted by the possibilities posed by the Digital Humanities and their applications to different contexts. Particularly, I have been involved as Digital Humanist in a project called Orizzonte Postumo, funded by Teatro Stabile del Veneto in Padova, where a group of three playwriter and two directors are working on the production of two plays by also assisting the creative process with the deployment of digital methods like text mining, social network analysis or quantitative analysis of literary works.