Virdis Daniela

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Curriculum Vitae

DANIELA FRANCESCA VIRDIS, PhD
Personal Information

• Work address
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Dipartimento di Linguistica e Stilistica, Via San Giorgio 12, 09124 Cagliari (Italy)
• Work telephone
+39 (0)70 6756229
• Nationality
Italian
• Date of birth
18 September 1975
• Memberships (in alphabetical order)
- Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA; Italian Association of English Studies)
- Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani (AISNA; Italian Association for North American Studies)
- European Association of American Studies (EAAS)
- European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
- International Association of Literary Semantics (IALS)
- International Gender And Language Association (IGALA)
- Poetics And Linguistics Association (PALA)

Teaching Experience

• Dates
From academic year 2004/05 onwards
• Name of employer
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Cagliari, Italy
• Occupation or position held
Ricercatore (Tenured Lecturer / Researcher) in English Language and Linguistics
• Main activities and responsibilities
- Teaching English Linguistics (Gender and the Media, Stylistics, Functional Grammar, Pragmatics, Structural Grammar) in First and Master’s Degree Courses
- Researching on English Linguistics (see Research Experience)

• Dates
From academic year 2004/05 onwards
• Name of employer
Faculty of Politics, University of Cagliari
• Occupation or position held
Lecturer in English Language (fixed term teaching contract)
• Main activities and responsibilities
Teaching English as a Foreign Language and English for Specific Purposes in the First Degree Course in Social Work

• Dates
From academic year 2003/04 to academic year 2006/07
• Name of employer
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Cagliari
• Occupation or position held
Lecturer in English Language (fixed term teaching contract)
• Main activities and responsibilities
Teaching English as a Foreign Language and English for Specific Purposes in First and Master’s Degree Courses in Sports Science

• Dates
Academic year 2003/04
• Name of employer
University Language Centre, University of Cagliari
• Occupation or position held
Teacher of English Language (fixed term teaching contract)
• Main activities and responsibilities
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in First Degree Courses

Academic year 2003/04
• Name of employer
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Cagliari
• Occupation or position held
Tutor of English Language (fixed term contract)
• Main activities and responsibilities
Assisting students of First Degree Courses to study English as a Foreign Language

• Dates
From academic year 2002/03 to academic year 2003/04
• Name of employer
Faculty of Education, University of Cagliari
• Occupation or position held
Lecturer in English Language (fixed term teaching contract)
• Main activities and responsibilities
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in First Degree Courses

Research Experience

• Dates
September 2010
• Name and type of organisation
Library of the Latvian Academy of Culture and Library of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Foreign Languages (both in Riga, Latvia)
• Principal subjects
Language and sexuality, national/ethnic stereotypes, intercultural communication

• Dates
June 2009 and April 2008
• Name and type of organisation
Cambridge University Library and Anglia Ruskin University Library (both in Cambridge, UK)
• Principal subjects
Language and gender, gender and the media

• Dates
August 2007
• Name and type of organisation
Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford (UK)
• Principal subjects
Language and gender, feminist television studies, feminist media studies
• Grant
Grant for researching on English Linguistics awarded by the University of Cagliari, Department of Scientific Research

• Dates
April 2007
• Name and type of organisation
Cambridge University Library and Anglia Ruskin University Library (both in Cambridge, UK)
• Principal subjects
Structural grammar

• Dates
July-August 2006
• Name and type of organisation
Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Humboldt University Central Library, Humboldt University Branch Library of English and American Studies (all in Berlin, Germany)
• Principal subjects
Language and gender, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis
• Grant
Grant for researching on English Linguistics awarded by the University of Cagliari, Department of Scientific Research

• Dates
August-September 2005
• Name and type of organisation
National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh University Library (both in Edinburgh, UK)
• Principal subjects
Stylistics, pragmatics

• Dates
February-May 2002
• Name and type of organisation
Libraries of the University of Wales College, Newport and Cardiff (UK)
• Principal subjects
Devils and witches in Jacobean drama, Elizabethan and Jacobean demonological literature

• Dates
August 2001
• Name and type of organisation
British Library and Warburg Institute Library (both in London, UK)
• Principal subjects
Devils and witches in Jacobean drama, Elizabethan and Jacobean demonological literature

Other Academic Experience

• Dates
From September 2010 to May 2011
• Name of persons responsible for the project
Prof G. Mazzon, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Cagliari, and Prof L. Fodde, Faculty of Economics, University of Cagliari
• Occupation or position held
Registration Secretary
• Main activities and responsibilities
Organisation of the National Conference SLIN 2011: Dialogic Forms in One Thousand Years of English Texts – From Old English to Late Modern English (Cagliari, 26-28 May 2011), the 15th Biennial Conference of the Italian Studies in the History of English Group

• Dates
September 2010
• Occupation or position held
Visiting lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Department of Intercultural Communication and Foreign Languages
• Main activities and responsibilities
Discussing the international mobility programmes between the Latvian Academy of Culture and the University of Cagliari
• Grant
Grant for a preparatory visit abroad awarded by the European Commission teaching exchange programme “TS Erasmus” and by the University of Cagliari, Department of International Relations and Activities

• Dates
From January 2009 to July 2010
• Name of person responsible for the project
Prof J. Douthwaite, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Genoa, Italy
• Occupation or position held
Member of the Scientific Committee and member of the Organising Committee
• Main activities and responsibilities
Organisation of the International Conference PALA 2010: The Language of Landscapes (Genoa, 21-25 July 2010), the 30th Annual Conference of the Poetics And Linguistics Association

• Dates
From January 2009 to July 2010
• Name of person responsible for the project
Prof J. Douthwaite, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Genoa, Italy
• Occupation or position held
Member of the Scientific Committee and member of the Organising Committee
• Main activities and responsibilities
Organisation of the International Conference IALS 2010: The Semantics of Landscapes (Genoa, 24-28 July 2010), the 5th Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics

• Dates
June 2009
• Occupation or position held
Visiting lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Department of Languages and Intercultural Communication
• Main activities and responsibilities
Discussing the international mobility programmes between Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cagliari
• Grant
Grant for a preparatory visit abroad awarded by the European Commission teaching exchange programme “TS Erasmus” and by the University of Cagliari, Department of International Relations and Activities

• Dates
April 2008 and April 2007
• Name of persons responsible for the project
Prof Sarah J. Fitt for Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, and Prof Irene Meloni for the University of Cagliari, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature
• Occupation or position held
Visiting lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Department of Languages and Intercultural Communication
• Main activities and responsibilities
Teaching Pragmatics, Stylistics and Language and Gender in First Degree Courses
• Grant
Grant for a teaching exchange abroad awarded by the European Commission teaching exchange programme “TS Erasmus” and by the University of Cagliari, Department of International Relations and Activities

• Dates
October 2007
• Name of person responsible for the project
Prof Massimo Onofri, Head of the Department of Language Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy
• Occupation or position held
Visiting lecturer at the University of Sassari, Department of Language Sciences
• Main activities and responsibilities
Teaching Pragmatics and Stylistics in the Doctorate Course in Theories and Practices of Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Interpretation and Translation

• Dates
From October 2005 onwards
• Name of person responsible for the project
Prof E. Di Piazza, Faculty of Education, University of Palermo, Italy
• Main activities and responsibilities
Running the Nuova Bibliografia Elettronica (New On-Line Bibliography) of the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA; Italian Association of English Studies)

• Dates
From January 2004 to September 2005
• Name of person responsible for the project
Prof J. Douthwaite, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Genoa, Italy
• Occupation or position held
General Secretary
• Main activities and responsibilities
Organisation of the National Conference Cityscapes: Islands of the Self (Cagliari, 15-17 September 2005), the 22nd Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA; Italian Association of English Studies)

Education

• Dates
From March 2000 to February 2003
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Genoa, Italy
• Title of qualification awarded
Doctorate in English Studies, coordinated by Prof M. Bacigalupo
• Principal subjects
English and American Language and Literature
• Thesis
“A spectacle of strangeness”: Esempi di diavoli e streghe nel teatro giacomiano (Examples of Devils and Witches in Jacobean Drama), supervised by Prof E. Barisone and Prof P. A. Rossi, on plays by T. Dekker, T. Middleton, B. Jonson, and on Elizabethan and Jacobean demonological literature
• Grant
Grant for the attendance of a post-degree course awarded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Assessorato della Pubblica Istruzione, Beni Culturali, Informazione, Spettacolo e Sport (Region of Sardinia, Department of Education, Culture, Media, Entertainment and Sports)

• Dates
February-May 2002
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training
Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, University of Wales College, Newport (UK)
• Principal subjects
English and American Language and Literature
• Grants
Grants for the attendance of university courses abroad awarded by the European Commission student exchange programme “Socrates-Erasmus” and by the University of Genoa

• Dates
From November 1994 to June 1999
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy
• Title of qualification awarded
Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature
• Principal subjects
English Language and Literature
Italian Language and Literature
French Language and Literature
• Thesis
Fonti italiane di The Devil Is an Ass di Ben Jonson: La Favola di Niccolò Machiavelli e altri echi (The Italian Sources of The Devil Is an Ass by Ben Jonson: Favola by Niccolò Machiavelli, and others), supervised by Dr F. Grazzini and Prof V. Viviani
• Grant
Grant for the attendance of a degree course awarded by the University of Tuscia (Viterbo)

Publications

Volumes
1.     H. Bowles, J. Douthwaite, Daniela Francesca Virdis (eds), Ricerca e didattica nei Centri Linguistici di Ateneo: Atti delle Giornate di Studi sull’Insegnamento delle Lingue, Cagliari (Italy), CUEC, 2006.
2.     “A spectacle of strangeness”: Diavoli e streghe nel teatro giacomiano, Viterbo (Italy), Sette Città, 2004 (“Fuori collana” n. 14, General Editor D. Paris).
3.     Ben Jonson, Il diavolo è un asino, Translation, introduction and notes by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Viterbo (Italy), Sette Città, 2003 (“Anglia” n. 4, General Editor A. Graziano).

Articles
4.     “Marge’s Private Conflict in The Simpsons: A Linguistic Analysis”, in E. de Cacqueray, N. Duclos and K. Meschia (eds), Anglophonia: French Journal of English Studies: Women, Conflict and Power 27 (2010), pp. 295-304.
5.     “Sexuality, Masculinities & Co. in the Limericks from the Victorian Erotic Magazine The Pearl”, in J. Douthwaite and K. Wales (eds), Textus: English Studies in Italy: Stylistics and Co. (Unlimited): The Range, Methods and Applications of Stylistics 23.1 (2010), pp. 209-234.
6.     “Twentieth-Century Sardinia in The National Geographic Magazine: A Lexical Analysis of a Biased Representation”, in G. Marci and S. Pilia (eds), Minori e minoranze tra Otto e Novecento: Convegno di Studi nel centenario della morte di Enrico Costa (1841-1909), Cagliari (Italy), CUEC, 2009, pp. 129-148.
7.     “Representing Female Clumsiness: The Figure of Susan in ABC’s Desperate Housewives”, in N. Kara (ed.), Gender at the Crossroads: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Women’s Studies: Famagusta (Cyprus), 20-22 April 2009, Famagusta (Cyprus), Eastern Mediterranean University Press, 2009, pp. 97-104.
8.     “Polite Interaction or Cooperative Interaction? Bree’s Conversational Style in ABC’s Desperate Housewives”, BAS: British and American Studies 15 (2009), pp. 237-251.
9.     “Niccolò Goes to America: Ideology and/through Lexicon in a 1900s US Reader”, in D. Torretta, M. Dossena, A. Sportelli (eds), Forms of migration – Migration of forms: Language Studies: Proceedings of the 23rd AIA Conference: Bari (Italy), 20-22 September 2007, Bari (Italy), Progredit, 2009, pp. 212-223.
10.  “George Gifford’s A Discourse of the Subtill Practises of Devills by Witches and Sorcerers: Female Figures through Corpus Stylistics”, in S. Cocco, A. Pinna, C. Varcasia (eds), Corpora, Discorso e Stile – Corpora, Discourse & Style, Rome (Italy), Aracne, 2009, pp. 285-301.
11.  “Time and the Text of Sex and the City: The Last Conversation among the Four Female Characters in the American TV Series”, Online Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA): Sheffield (UK), 23-26 July 2008, available at http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/proceedings/2008/virdis2008.pdf.
12.  “Ben Jonson Across Cultures: Bartholomew Fair’s Italian Adaptation”, in A. V. Jovanovic and R. Vukcevic (eds), International Conference English Language and Literature Studies: Structures Across Cultures: ELLSSAC Proceedings: Volume II: Belgrade (Serbia), 7-9 December 2007, Belgrade (Serbia), Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, 2008, pp. 245-257.
13.  “’I’m Mary Brady. I go to Saint Agnes in Queens’: Il personaggio irlandese di Mary in Sex and the City”, NAE: Trimestrale di cultura 22 (Spring 2008), pp. 45-49.
14.  “Women and Witches in Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft and in James I’s Daemonologie: A Linguistic Analysis”, in J. Douthwaite and D. Pezzini (eds), Words in Action: Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to English Discourse: Studies in Honour of Ermanno Barisone, Genoa (Italy), ECIG, 2008, pp. 339-352.
15.  “Old Models of Power and Gender in David Harrower’s Blackbird: A Conversation Analysis”, in M. Arcangeli and C. Marcato (eds), Lingue e culture fra identità e potere, Rome (Italy), Bonacci, 2008, pp. 603-611.
16.  “On David Harrower’s Blackbird Yet Again: Further Linguistic Evidence of Chauvinist Ideology”, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica e Stilistica dell’Università di Cagliari: Itinerari di ricerca linguistica e letteraria 5 (2007), pp. 177-191.
17.  “Women and Devils at War in Jonson’s The Devil Is an Ass and in Machiavelli’s Favola: A Stylistic Analysis”, Letterature straniere &: Quaderni della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell’Università degli Studi di Cagliari: Guerra e pace 9 (2007), pp. 91-99.
18.  “Sardinia and Sardinian Women in a 1923 National Geographic Magazine: A Stylistic Analysis”, in L. Jottini, G. Del Lungo, J. Douthwaite (eds), Cityscapes: Islands of the Self: Language Studies: Proceedings of the 22nd AIA Conference: Cagliari (Italy), 15-17 September 2005, Cagliari (Italy), CUEC, 2007, pp. 545-555.
19.  “Giovanni Papini, Wallace Stevens e l’idea di poesia e di poeta”, Il lettore di provincia 122.1 (2005), pp. 85-96.
20.  “W. Stevens’ ‘Reply to Papini’”, in M. Bacigalupo and P. Castagneto (eds), America and the Mediterranean: AISNA: Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Biennial International Conference: Genoa (Italy), November 8-11, 2001, Turin (Italy), Otto, 2003, pp. 361-367.

Reviews
21.  Review of J. M. Kozma, Grazia Deledda’s Eternal Adolescents: The Pathology of Arrested Maturation, Madison (NJ), Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002, published in Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate 58.1 (2005), pp. 117-120.
22.  Review of F. Troncarelli (ed.), Il flauto magico: Il frammento, Naples (Italy), Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1998, published in Il Cristallo 42.1 (2000), pp. 166-167.
23.  Review of G.M. Anselmi (ed.), Dal primato allo scacco: I modelli narrativi italiani tra Trecento e Settecento, Rome (Italy), Carocci, 1998, published in Il Veltro 43.5-6 (1999), pp. 666-672.

Last updated 22 December 2010