Welcome! 

 

My name is Valentina and I want to thank you for visiting my page.

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About me:

I grew up in a small village in the South of Sardinia, Italy. I did my undergraduate studies in foreign languages at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and the Universität Potsdam (Germany). I received my first M.A. in German and Spanish also from the University of Cagliari and lived in Germany for 7 years where I taught Italian in public and private schools. In Fall 2013, I started my graduate studies at Purdue University, (USA). ​In July 2015, I got my second M.A. in Linguistics and started my Ph.D. in Linguistics right after. In November 2020, I successfully passed my dissertation defense and received my Doctoral Degree in February 2021.  

 

I am currently the Program Coordinator for Italian at Leuphana University, Germany, where I also serve as a Regional Representative for Southeast Europe. Previously, I worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Universidad del Norte, Colombia. My research interests focus on, but are not limited to, historical linguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and second language acquisition.