Fausto Dardi

Overview

Biography

I am Associate Lecturer in Italian for the 2023-24 academic year.

Besides Birkbeck, I am Teaching Associate in Italian at the University of Sheffield (MLTC) and Tutor of Italian at Durham University (CFLS LFA).

Prior to joining Birkbeck, I was Associate Lecturer in Italian at both Newcastle University and Northumbria University at Newcastle, as well as Teaching Assistant at Durham University, where I extensively taught on Italian language modules and also delivered lectures and seminars on the MA in Translation Studies for the 'Specialised Translation IT>EN' module.

Professional memberships

• Network of Italian Language Teachers in the UK (NILI-UK), 2023-present.

• The Society for Italian Studies, Part-time and Early Career Membership, 2023-2024 (renewed).

• Association for Language Learning, Early Career Teacher Membership, 2023-2024.

Honours and awards

• Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE, September 2022
• Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Scholarship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, September 2018

ORCID

0000-0001-8178-772X

Research

Research interests

• Italian Language and Culture
• Translation Studies
• Translation and Cognition
• Idiom and Metaphor Translation
• Linguistics
• Pragmatics
• Sociolinguistics

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Italian 5 (ARCL043S6)
• Italian 4 (Level 4) (ARCL104S4)