Valeria Monello

Valeria Monello (DISUM - Humanities Dept., University of Catania, Italy) holds a PhD in English and Anglo-American Studies. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Catania (DISUM) and Adjunct Professor of "Linguaggi settoriali e traduzione inglese" and "Lingua 2 at Struttura didattica speciale di Ragusa.  Her main research interests are gender representation and characterisation in TV series, translation and linguistic varieties, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), gender studies and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. She has worked on Andrea Camilleri’s detective novels, The Simpsons’ Italian dubbing and, more recently, on characterisation and linguistic profiling in audio-visual texts such as TV series. Her monograph Hybridity in Londonstani’s Italian Translation (2019, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) investigates linguistic varieties and translation. She is a member of I-Land (Identity, Language and Diversity Research Centre), GENUS and AIA.