She is an associate professor in Spanish Language and Translation at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. She is currently conducting research on the translation of Ernesto Sábato’s essays and his contribution to the controversial debate on the Argentine linguistic question, that is, the existence of an “Argentine language” reflected in the ideological and literary framework of the Latin American country. She has focused her attention on the “language of exile” in Cristina Peri Rossi and Alfonsina Storni. She has also concentrated on the phenomenon of migration in the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, and its implications in terms of linguistic coexistence and multiculturalism. She is a member of the editorial board of the Polispanica series (Guida Editori) and the Center for Comparative Area Studies (Asafal), and serves as Latin American Research Analyst for Emerics (Seoul, South Korea).

Marco Bagli is a fixed-term researcher (RtdB) in English cognitive linguistics at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. His research explores the relationship between mind, culture, and language from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. He focuses in particular on the linguistic encoding of sensory perception—especially taste—and investigates cognitive mechanisms such as conceptual metaphor, framing, and salience. He is the author of the monograph Tastes We Live By (Mouton de Gruyter), which was awarded the AIA Junior Book Prize in 2022. He has also published on discourse markers, interjections, and their grammaticalization in Early Modern English. At the University for Foreigners of Perugia, he is currently focusing on the role of English as a Lingua Franca in the global world, with particular attention to multilingualism and translanguaging, especially in the context of migratory processes.

Valentina Gasbarra graduated in Glottology in 2003 at the University of Rome “Sapienza” and obtained her PhD in Historical Linguistics and the History of Italian Linguistics from the same university in 2007. She has collaborated on various national projects (PRIN) as a research fellow and is currently an associate professor at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. Her research mainly focuses on ancient Indo-European languages (in particular, Greek of the 2nd and 1st millennia BC) from a diachronic perspective. Areas of investigation: phonetics and phonology, lexicon and etymology, nominal morphology and composition. She has dedicated a monographic work to interlinguistic contact and phenomena of interference between Mycenaean and the languages of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Since May 2022, she has served as Teaching Delegate for the LILAIM Department; since June 2024, as Rector’s Delegate for "Internships and Job Placement".

Roberto Vetrugno (1975) studied Modern Literature at the University of Pavia and was a student at Collegio Borromeo. He earned a PhD in Italian Linguistics and Stylistics at the University of Bologna with a dissertation dedicated to the language of Baldassarre Castiglione’s autograph letters. He was a research fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Pavia, a visiting professor at the University of Tripoli in 2013, and later a researcher at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).

His main research focuses on Renaissance letter exchanges and the courtly language: together with others, he edited the collection of Castiglione’s letters (Turin, Einaudi 2016), to which he has dedicated several works (Baldassar Castiglione, in Autografi dei letterati italiani, Rome 2009; The Language of Baldassar Castiglione as Epistolographer, Novara 2010; among the latest, Castiglione in Milan, in Renaissance in Transit in Milan (1450-1525), Milan, University of Milan, 2021; The Archives of Castiglione, Rome, Viella, 2023; Courtly Lexicon. Glossary of the Letters of Baldassarre Castiglione, Bologna, I libri di Emil, 2024).

He has explored the linguistic aspects of the letter collections of Isabella d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia, Vittoria Colonna, and other noblewomen of the sixteenth century, and has compiled his research in the volume "Prègola la non me voglia dementichare". Linguistic Studies on Renaissance Women’s Letters, Milan, Franco Angeli 2025. Since 2016, he has been involved in research dedicated to advanced levels of Italian L2 learning, including from a diachronic perspective. Since 2019, as rector’s delegate for the documentation and book heritage of the university, he has promoted a project for the transcription, analysis, and digitization of the University’s historical archive, presented in the recent Treccani volume dedicated to the history of the Stranieri (Learner Profiles and Italian L2 in the Historical Archive of the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in The University for Foreigners of Perugia. History of a University Open to the World, edited by Salvatore Cingari, Valerio De Cesaris, Gabriele Rigano, Roberto Vetrugno, Rome, Treccani, 2024, pp. 441-460). Since 2019, he has been the Rector’s Delegate for the enhancement of the University’s documentary, bibliographic, and artistic heritage.

Since September 2022, he has been president of the three-year degree course in Literature "Italian Language and Culture in the Digital World" and founded DigitaLab, a meeting place for the presentation and implementation of research dedicated to digital culture.