Lorenzo MORETTI

Current position: PhD student (37th cycle)

Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Pappalardo)

Cotutelle program with Institut für Japanologie, Universität Heidelberg (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Fuess)

Research title (tentative): "Role language and character language of anthropomorphic non-human characters in Japanese video games"

Education:

• 2018-2020 - Master's degree in Languages and Civilization of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (Japanese Language); Ca' Foscari University of Venice
  Thesis: " Language use in video games: Linguistic analysis of the variations of Japanese in an installment of the Pokémon video game series" (Original Italian title: “L’uso della lingua nei videogiochi: Analisi linguistica delle varietà del giapponese in un episodio della serie videoludica Pokémon”)
  Supervisors: Patrick Heinrich, Pierantonio Zanotti; final grade: 110/110 with honours
  
  
• 2015-2018 - Bachelor's degree in Language, Culture and Society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (Japanese Language); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
  Thesis: "Futurism and violence: Its reception in Japan and Hirato Renkichi" (Original Italian title: "Futurismo e violenza: La ricezione in Giappone e Hirato Renkichi")
  Supervisor: Pierantonio Zanotti; final grade: 110/100 with honours
  
  
• 2010-2015 - High school diploma (classical studies); Istituto di istruzione superiore Giotto Ulivi, Borgo San Lorenzo (FI), final grade: 100/100
  
  

Further Training

• 2023-2024 - Cotutelle stay at Heidelberg University, Germany (one year)
• 2022-2023 - Overseas program at Kyoto University, Japan (one semester)
• 2019-2020 - Overseas program at Kobe University, Japan (one semester)
• 2018 – Short-term study abroad period at University of Kochi, Japan (3 months)
  
  

Academic experience

• 03/2023-06/2023 - Tutor in LM011N-Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2 and LM012N-Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 03/2022-07/2022 - Tutor in LM011N-Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2 and LM012N-Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Academic duties

• Apr. 2023-ongoing - Representative of Ca' Foscari University of Venice in the EUTOPIA Student Council
• Nov. 2022-Jan. 2025 - Student representative of the PhD program in Asian and African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Scholarships and awards

• 2023-2024 - 12-months German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Grant - Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees / Cotutelle
• 2022-2023 - 6-months Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) scholarship – Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology / Kyoto University
• 2021 - Honourable mention Premio AV for the best dissertations about video games - Archivio Videoludico Cineteca di Bologna
• 2021 - 3-year PhD full scholarship - Department of Asian and African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
• 2019-2020 – 5-months Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) scholarship – Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology / Kobe University
  
  

Memberships

• EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies)
• AISTUGIA (Italian Association for Japanese Studies)
• AIDLG (Italian Association for Japanese Language Teaching)
• DiGRA Italia (Italian Digital Games Research Association)