DOSSENA Marina

Marina Dossena is Professor of English Language at the University of Bergamo.
Her research centres on Late Modern English, paying special attention to ‘language history from below’ and to the Scottish context. Currently involved in the compilation of a Corpus of 19th-Century Scottish Correspondence, she co-edits "Token: A Journal of English Linguistics" and was co-founder of "InScriptum: A Journal of Language and Literary Studies"; both journals are online, open-access publications, and the former is indexed in Scopus and various other databases.
Prof. Dossena is a member of CLAVIER (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia), of the International Committee of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, of which she has been Honorary Fellow since 2017, and is affiliated as an international member to the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, University of Edinburgh; the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Durham University; and the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies. She has been invited to give plenary talks at relevant international conferences, such as ICEHL 15, ESSE 2014, FRLSU 2021 and the 1st International Symposium on Approaches to Dialects in English Literature (1500-1950) (Salamanca). Prof. Dossena has participated in the Coruña Corpus projects since 2013, and has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Innsbruck, Helsinki and Complutense de Madrid, where she is now a team member in the international research project "LModE Conceptualizations of Female Childhood: Cultural Linguistic Investigations across Borders".