Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Foreign Cultures at the University of Bergamo (SSD: L-OR/21, Languages and Literatures of China and Southeast Asia). She teaches Chinese language in the Bachelor's degree program in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures and in the Master's degree program in Modern Languages for Communication and International Cooperation. She is a member of the Teaching Board of the Ph.D. in Philological and Linguistic Studies on Written and Oral Heritage and is the Delegate of the Rector for relations with Asian areas.
Her research interests mainly focus on the evolution of modern Chinese language from the first half of the twentieth century and translation. In particular, her studies concentrate on morpho-syntactic phenomena resulting from the so-called Europeanization of Chinese, their evolution, and possible grammaticalization in contemporary language; on the definiteness category in Chinese, also from an acquisitional perspective; on the influence of translation in the formation of modern language; on translation theory and practice. Another research interest is the work of writer Zhang Ailing (1920-1995), particularly her contribution to the innovation of the literary essay form and language.
She is the co-author, with Monica Morzenti, of about twenty translations from Chinese to Italian of novels and stories by modern and contemporary Chinese writers. In 2009, she won the National Translation Prize from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (with Monica Morzenti), and in 2023, she received the Friend of Chinese Literature certificate from the Association of Chinese Writers.
