Valeria REGGI

Higher Education

PhD in Discourse Analysis - Translation Studies (completed with minor revisions)
Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry (CMII), University College London, UK

Title of thesis: The Stereotype of Italianness in the Rhetoric of Matteo Renzi: A multimodal analysis of his talks delivered in English

Postgraduate Course in English>Italian Literary Translation
University Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy

Degree in Modern Languages (English-French)
Faculty of Humanities, University of Bologna, Italy

Teaching Experience

20-27 November 2023 - English for Journalism - Master in Journalism - University of Bologna

October 2023 - Visiting Professor - Sciences Po Bordeaux, France - Course on populist communication

Feb 2022 to date Adjunct Professor of English for Journalism - Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy – Two-year Master course in Media, Corporate and Public Communication

Jan 2022 to date Adjunct Professor of English - Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, Italy – Two-year Master course in Information, Cultures and Media Organization

Oct 2021 to date Adjunct Professor of English Linguistics - Department of Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy – Two-year Master course in Language, Society and Communication

March 2021 to date Tutorship in English Linguistics - Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy

Sept 2020-Feb 2021 Adjunct Professor of English
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy – Campus of Mantua

Mar-Sept 2021 Tutor in Linguistics
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy

Sept 2020-Feb 2021 Adjunct Professor of English
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy – Campus of Mantua

25 November 2020 Seminar on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, MA in Gender, Society and Representation, University College London, UK

20 November 2019 Seminar on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, MA in Gender, Society and Representation, University College London, UK

28 June 2018 Seminar on Intercultural Communication in Business
ITS Maker Foundation (Institute for Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanics and Packaging), Bologna, Italy

7 June 2018 Seminar of Critical Discourse Analysis on Stereotyping and Political Discourse
WeTell Summer School, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy

2013-2014 Translation Tutor and Lecturer
Diploma in Translation (IoLET) preparatory course by Williams Language Solutions (endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Linguists), English into Italian

Research

Jan-Jul 2023 Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship - Experiments in Democracy. Refugee policy and innovation in democratic praxis and discourse - Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento Culture, Politica e Società

Jan-Apr 2022 Post-Doctoral Research Consultant - STRIVE Project - Sustainable Translations to Reduce Inequalities in Vaccine hEsitancy - Traduzioni sostenibili per ridurre diseguaglianze ed esitazioni nella campagna vaccinale - https://sites.google.com/view/strivesprojit/home?authuser=0

Feb 2020 to date New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication
Media Ecology Journal, University of Toronto

Member of the Editorial Board

Feb 2020-2023 Italian Pride – The Heartland in the Discourse of Matteo Salvini and the Northern League, A Multimodal Approach

Description: The study foregrounds Matteo Salvini’s stance towards nationalism by analysing the visual and verbal resources that he most frequently uses during rallies and on social media. It will develop to include other examples of right-wing populist propaganda.

Sept 2019-2023 Voice of Supporters - European Elections 2019: the comments of the supporters of Italian right-wing populist parties on social media

Description: The project is developed across Europe and aims explores what motivates people to vote for populist parties and whether voter motivations are shared across contexts and European countries.

2020 Appointed Independent Subject Expert in English
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy

April 2018-2020 WeTell Alma Idea 2017 Scientific Committee
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy

Description: designing and testing new teaching methods to promote performative storytelling as a tool to face the challenges of societal change.

2013-2017 Appointed Independent Subject Expert in English Literature
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy

Conferences and Seminars

10-12 July 2024 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland). https://cadaad2024.amu.edu.pl/?page_id=310

6-8 July 2023 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) - Università degli Studi di Bergamo - https://www.cadaad.info/panels/panel-9-voices-of-supporters

8-10 September 2021, Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization: Ten Years after the Movements of the Squares, Freie Universität Berlin

7-9 Sept 2020, 24th DiscourseNet Conference, Discourse and Communication as Propaganda
Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium

15 July 2020, online workshop Translation: National Identity, Ideology and Narrativity
Faculty of Education, Misan University, Amarah, Iraq

6-8 June 2019, 23rd DiscourseNet Conference “Discourse, power and mind. Between reason and emotion”
University of Bergamo, Italy

17-19 May 2018, AIA Seminar “On the move: sites of change, states of insecurity”
University of Macerata, Italy

8 May 2018, IAS Talking Point: Not Just the News - Reflections on the impact of journalistic style in online news articles about terrorist events abroad
Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, UK

Description: respondent to Dr Ashley Riggs

6-8 July 2022, CADAAD conference
University of Bergamo, Italy

6-8 Sept 2018, Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics: Insights from Superdiversity, Complexity and Multimodality
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

12-14 July 2017, International Conference “Moving texts: mediations and transculturations”
University of Aveiro, Portugal