Academic Interests
discourse markers
text structure
language acquisition, trilingualism
verbal semantics, verbal aspect
national identity, multiculturalism
Teaching
Italian Language, Italian Grammar, Lexicology, textual analysis
Higher education and employment history
Since 2007 – associate professor of Italian language at the University of Oslo
2000 - 2007 – senior teaching assistant of Italian Language at the Department of Romance Languages at the Lomonossov Moscow State University
2006 - PhD in Contrastive Linguistics at the University Paris 7 (dissertation: “Les mots du discours formés à partir du verbe ‘dire’ en russe et en français”).
2000 - PhD in Romance Languages at the Lomonossov Moscow State University (dissertation: “Semantic and Syntactic Analysis of Discourse Markers of Verbal Origin in Modern Italian”)
Scholarships:
1994 – 1995 - University of Friburg (Switzerland)
1995 – 1996 – University of Florence
1997 –1998 – University of Padova
Research fellowships:
1998 – 1999 – University Paris 7 Denis Diderot
2001, 2005 – University Paris 7 Denis Diderot