ROSSI Fabio

FABIO ROSSI is Full Professor in Italian Linguistics. He has been teaching Italian Linguistics at the University of Messina since 2002. He is a member (socio accademico corrispondente) of the Accademia della Crusca. In 1998, he obtained a PhD in “Italian Linguistics” at the University of Florence. From 1999 to 2002, he worked at the University of Ferrara as “assegnista di ricerca” (research grant). He was Director of Studies and Professor in the International Curriculum “Transatlantic Degree Cinema and Language” (TDC&L, “laurea specialistica” in Europe and Master’s Degree in the United States), at the University of Messina, in co-operation with the University of Cordoba and the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. He is a member of the PhD scientific committee in “Scienze umanistiche” at the University of Messina. He is responsible for the Socrates Programme at the University of Messina, specifically for the international relationships between Messina and the Universities of Augsburg (Germany), Warsaw (Poland) and others. His research interests include musical lexical studies (16th-17th century treatises and 19th century opera librettos), media spoken language and audiovisual texts (especially Italian and dubbed cinema), syntactical and pragmatic analysis of spoken language, teaching Italian (also as a second language), language ideologies. His production encompasses a broad number of books, edited books, articles and essays. He was invited speaker in many international conferences (Amsterdam, Innsbruck, Bamberg, Melbourne, etc.) and collaborated with distinguished cultural institutions (e.g. “Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani” and “Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei”) and universities in Italy and abroad (e.g. Chile, Denmark, Germany, etc.), involved in the dissemination of Italian language and culture. The complete list of publications can be found at http://www.unime.it/it/persona/fabio-rossi.