I have worked
as a university teacher in the department of Italian at the University of Turku
since January 2010. I have been a member of Italian kielen ja kulttuurin seura
ry (Association of Italian Language and Culture) since 2010 and I have served
in various roles in the association’s board. The association works closely with
the department of Italian and its main task is to promote knowledge of the
Italian language and culture through dynamic publishing activities.

I am writing
my doctoral dissertation about Finnish travellers’ images of Italians in the
second half of the 19th century. The aim of the study is to analyze the images
that Finnish travellers have about Italians and to compare how they differ from
the images of other European travellers and Italians themselves. The research
is imagological in nature, that is, it focuses on the analysis of discursive
representations of national characters and on the problematic related to the
notion of national character.

My teaching
responsibilities include mainly courses related to language knowledge and
translation (e.g. grammar, phonetics, translation Italian-Finnish, authorized
translation). In addition to this, I teach basic research skills and act as the
second supervisor of master's theses.