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Education

Habilitation in English Linguistics, University of Regensburg
Thesis: “Children’s English in Cameroon: A Sociophonetic Perspective” (Supervisor: Prof. Jakob Leimgruber)

11.2024 Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) - Associate Professor (Disciplinary Field 10/L1 - English and Anglo-American languages, literatures and cultures) 

03.2020 Ph.D. in English Linguistics (with honors), University of Naples L’Orientale, University of Heidelberg
Thesis: ” Language attitudes, ethnic identities and metalinguistic awareness: An accent-based study of the Indian transient student community of Heidelberg” (Supervisors: Prof. Katherine E. Russo, Prof. Em. Beat Glauser)

07.2016 M.A. in English Studies (with honors), University of Naples L’Orientale

10.2014 B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and French, with honors), University of Naples L’Orientale

Main academic positions held

2024 - present Assistant Professor (Ricercatore in Tenure Track), Department of Cultural Heritage Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy

2023 – present Post-doc Research Fellow (Habilitandin), Department of English and American Cultures, English Linguistics, University of Regensburg

2023 – 2024 Post-doc Research Fellow (Ricercatore a tempo determinato Tipologia A), Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics, University of Pisa, Italy

2020 – 2022 Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Department of English and American Cultures, English Linguistics, University of Regensburg