Martina Russo
PhD candidate @ Università di Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum – Department of Interpreting and Translation
Email address: martina.russo22@unibo.it martina.russo21@studio.unibo.it
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
January-April 2024 Research period abroad
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
Supervisor: Professor Arran Stibbe
(2022- current) PhD candidate
Thesis: Language and reconnection with Nature: a grammar of Enchantment
Supervisors: Professor Cinzia Bevitori, Professor Raffaella Baccolini
Università di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”, Department of Interpreting and Translation (Forlì, IT)
(2019-2021) Master in Global Marketing, Communication and Made in Italy
Fondazione ITALIA USA- Centro studi Comunicare l'Impresa
(2017-2019) MA with Distinction in Modern Languages for Management and International Cooperation
Università degli Studi di Chieti-Pescara "G. D'Annunzio" (Pescara, IT)
(2012- 2015) BA in Linguistic Mediation and Intercultural Communication
Università degli Studi di Chieti-Pescara "G. D'Annunzio" (Pescara, IT)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(6 February 2024) seminar “Language and reconnection with Nature: a grammar of Enchantment”
Department of Creative Arts
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
(30 January 2024) lecture “How language can evoke enchantment with Nature”
Department of Architecture
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
(2019- current) Teaching Assistant – English Language
Università degli Studi di Chieti-Pescara "G. D'Annunzio",
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
(2019-2022) Lecturer – Specialized English Language
Università degli Studi di Chieti-Pescara "G. D'Annunzio",
-Department of Architecture, Pescara (IT)
-School of Medicine and Health Sciences (Chieti, IT)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Critical Discourse Studies, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, Ecolinguistics, Ecostylistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Appraisal Theory
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Publications
Paper (forthcoming)
M. Russo, “Inverting the logic of catastrophe: Elisabeth Jane Burnett’s narrative of directional metaphors” in Trame di Letteratura Comparata, Nuova Editrice Universitaria
Paper (forthcoming, under review)
M. Russo, “Tra autore umano e narratore non-umano: elementi linguistici e ideologie
nella Nazione delle piante di Stefano Mancuso” in Xenia, RomaTre Press
Translation (2024)
M. Russo (a cura di), “Maud Howe. Diario di una viaggiatrice: luoghi e identità d’Abruzzo”, Collana Comete-Scie d’Abruzzo, Ianieri Edizioni.
ISBN-13: 979-12-5488-053-1
Paper (2022)
M. Russo, “On any given day I am rivering: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett tra resilienza, memoria e impegno ambientale”, Giusy di Filippo, Marco Marino, Giovanni Spani (eds.), Donne Resilienti: Raccolta di saggi, QuodManet Press.
ISBN-13: 979-8386311131
Conferences and workshops
12 July 2024
M. Russo, “Language and reconnection with Nature: a grammar of Enchantment” (presentation + workshop)
Ecocultural Arts Symposium, II ed
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
27 Februrary 2024
Ecocultural Arts Symposium, I ed.
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
19 January 2024
Aston Stylistics Research Group (ASRG), Applied Stylistics Symposium 2024 Aston University (Birmingham, UK)
14-16 December 2023
Languaging Diversity. Languaging identities in changing times: Challenges and opportunities
Università di Torino (Turin, IT)
30 November-1 December 2023
M. Russo, “Tra autore umano e narratore non-umano: elementi linguistici e
ideologici nella costruzione del mondo vegetale nel discorso della Nazione delle
piante di Stefano Mancuso” in
Postgraduate Conference, Difetti d’autore: forme e significazioni dell’autorialità
Università Roma Tre (Roma, IT)
22-24 November 2023
Clavier 2023. Framing nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment. A sustainability perspective
Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, IT)
13-16 September 2023
Future Horizons: New Beginnings in English Studies, XXXI AIA Conference Università della Calabria (Rende, IT)
12-16 July 2023
M. Russo, “Corpus-assisted Ecostylistic Analysis: Plants’ narrative in Sue Burke’s Semiosis and Interference” in
Green Stylistics: Exploring Connections between Stylistics and the Environment, PALA CONFERENCE 2023 (awarded with the PALA STUDENT BURSARY)
Università di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum” (Bertinoro, IT)
11 May 2023
Approaching Ecolinguistics: a conversation with Arran Stibbe (workshop) Università degli Studi di Chieti-Pescara G. D’Annunzio (Pescara, IT).
3-5 May 2023
Using Corpus and Discourse Methods to Study Nostalgia (workshop)
Università di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum” (Bertinoro, IT)
20 February 2023
Buonvivere L. and M. Russo, “Interconnectedness, Wonder and Care: Enchanting Land and kaitiakitanga” in
Ecocultural Humanities Symposyum
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
21-24 September 2022
M. Russo, “Elisabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling and the chronotopic vision” in ICE-6: Sixth International Conference on Ecolinguistics
University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
Summer schools
24-27 June 2024
Summer school “Climate Change Theories, Narrations and Discourse: Sharing Knowledges and Practices”
Dis4change, Interuniversity Research Centre
Università L’Orientale di Napoli (Naples)
28-30 September 2023
Summer school in “Theories and methods for the corpus-assisted analysis of discourse: from language that denotes to language that expresses phenomena” Università di Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum (Bertinoro, IT)
10-12 July 2023
PALA Summer School in “Linguistic Approaches to Ecological Discourse”, Università di Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum (Bertinoro, IT)
25-30 June 2023
Summer School in “Corpus Linguistics Summer School for Language, Discourse and Society”
Lancaster University (Lancaster, UK)
12-16 June 2023
Summer School in “Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: AI and the
(new) literacy”
Università di Modena e Reggio Emila Unimore (Modena, IT)
Scientific and Organizing Committee
12 July 2024
Ecocultural Arts Symposium, II ed
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
24-27 June 2024
Summer school “Climate Change Theories, Narrations and Discourse: Sharing Knowledges and Practices”
Dis4change, Interuniversity Research Centre
Università L’Orientale di Napoli (Naples)
27 Februrary 2024
Ecocultural Arts Symposium, I ed
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
10-11 May 2023
Ecocultural Identities and the Global South (10 May)
Approaching Ecolinguistics: a conversation with Arran Stibbe (11 May)
Università degli Studi di Chieti-Pescara G. D’Annunzio (Pescara, IT)
19-21 February 2023
Ecocultural Humanities Symposyum
University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, UK)
Associations
- Dis4change, Interuniversity Research Centre
- Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA)
- International Ecolinguistics Association (IEA)
- Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)
Certificates
(March 2023) Certificate for TRADOS STUDIOS (Level 1)
Università di Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum
Department of Interpreting and Translation (Forlì, IT)
(March 2022) Proficiency (C1) Certificate of English Language
ESB- English Speaking Board (International) Ltd.
Level 2 Certificate in ESOL International All Modes (C1) Pass with distinction
