Lenguajes de la política. Más allá de las palabras

PhD in Iberian Studies (University of Bologna, 1998), is Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Translation at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Italy). Her research activity is mainly focused on the study of the representation of social, economic and political phenomena in the contemporary Spanish press and the analysis of political language in speeches and electoral programs. Her methodological approach, within a pragmatic theoretical framework, is based on the critical analysis of speech, enriched by research tools on framing and theories of conceptual metaphors. With E. Hidalgo-Tenorio and M. A. Benítez-Castro she has edited the volume Populist Discourse: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics (2019, Routledge) and the Special Issue of the I-LanD Journal, Current Politics and the Printed Media: Discursive Tensions in the Age of Populism 3.0 (2017). She has recently published the monograph Populismo y prensa. La construcción discursiva de la crisis griega y del brexit en dos periódicos españoles (Betwixt series, Loffredo Editore 2018) and a series of articles in national and international journals and volumes.

She is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Italy). Her research activity is mainly focused on the study of contemporary Spanish literature, Siglo de Oro theatre productions, translations from Spanish of literary texts and contemporary Catalan fiction. She has published extensively on novelists such as Juan José Millás, José María Merino, Enrique Vila-Matas, Javier Marías, Joan Ferraté, Terenci Moix, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Carmen Martín Gaite, Esther Tusquets, Almudena Grandes; and poets such as Federico García Lorca and Jaime Gil de Biedma. Additionally, she has translated into Italian José Miguel Ullán’s collection of poems Ráfagas/Raffiche (2009, Ad Est dell’Equatore); she has edited the critical edition of La hermosa Alfreda de Lope de Vega by Lope de Vega y Carpio (2012, IL Torcoliere/Unior Press); and she is the author of the monograph La memoria, l’identità, la scrittura: l’universo narrativo di fine millennio di Juan José Millás (2012, IL Torcoliere/Unior Press). She is currently working on testimonial fiction, autobiographies of political prisoners during the Civil War, Francoism and state terrorism of the last dictatorships in Chile and Argentina.